mound
US: /ˈmaʊnd/
UK: /mˈaʊnd/
English - Vietnamese dictionary
mound /maund/- danh từ
- ụ (đất, đá), mô (đất, đá)
- gò; đống; đồi; núi nhỏ
Advanced English dictionary
+ noun1 a large pile of earth or stones; a small hill: a Bronze Age burial mound + The castle was built on top of a natural grassy mound.
2 a pile: a small mound of rice / sand
3 ~ of sth (informal) a large amount of sth: I've got a mound of paperwork to do.
4 (in baseball) the small hill where the player who throws the ball (called the PITCHER) stands
Thesaurus dictionary
n.
1 hillock, rise, hummock, hill, hump, bank, elevation, knoll, knob, swell, dune, slope, tor, Chiefly W US and Canadian butte,:
We stood on a high mound from which we could see for miles.
2 heap, pile, stack, Archaeology tumulus, tell, barrow, (kitchen) midden:
Excavation of the mound yielded scores of Iron Age artefacts.
Collocation
1 small hill
ADJ.
high, large
The church stands on a high mound just outside the village.
| low, small | grassy
PREP.
on a/the ~
a small tree on a grassy mound
PHRASES
the foot/top of a mound
2 pile
ADJ.
great, huge, large | little, neat, small
a neat mound of leaves
PREP.
~ of
a great mound of paperwork
Concise dictionary
mounds|mounded|moundingmaʊndnoun
+(baseball) the slight elevation on which the pitcher stands
+a small natural hill
+a collection of objects laid on top of each other
+structure consisting of an artificial heap or bank usually of earth or stones
+the position on a baseball team of the player who throws the ball for a batter to try to hit
verb
+form into a rounded elevation
