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Meanings of mound in anglès
Structure at the surface of some underground ant nests, especially at high latitudes; provides heat control and flood protection.
Synonyms
Examples for "hammock"
Examples for "hammock"
1
Sickness has forced him to be carried several times in a hammock.
2
Sickness has forced Mendieta to be carried several times in a hammock.
3
Lie still in that hammock; let me fix the pillows a bit.
4
When he first arrived four years ago, he slept in a hammock.
5
The kind of place someone might, for example, string up a hammock.
1
The particular cuif so addressed by Meg came slowly over the knoll.
2
The wheat stubble swept on up to a knoll in the distance.
3
Everyone was either at the grassy knoll or on their way already.
4
He didn't want to remember that plain house on its windswept knoll.
5
He descended the knoll and began walking up and down before it.
1
A shout went up in answer from the group on the hillock.
2
He went back to the hillock on the edge of the trees.
3
After ten minutes, Molene stopped at the base of a truncated hillock.
4
The two Indians stepped upon the hillock and gazed under their hands.
5
A MAN in buckskins sat upon the top of a little hillock.
1
Then all in a moment-theydisappeared around the edge of the hummock.
2
Getting clear of the hummock, we were now in more open ground.
3
It was going past now on the other side of the hummock.
4
They came around the end of the hummock and onto the road.
5
We made our way as rapidly as we could towards the hummock.
Usage of mound in anglès
1
The body was laid on a small mound in the central enclosure.
2
The venerable mound, the digging of the new grave, woke gloomly thoughts.
3
The gold in the mound was exactly as he had left it.
4
For the first time she noticed that the mound was a grave.
5
Felix quested after words to say over the mound, but none came.
6
Tests have shown that the mound does contain high levels of mercury.
7
Now the shot flattened itself against sarsen stones imbedded in the mound.
8
The typical mound is one which covers the perpendicular burrow in Fig.
9
All right people, time for us to get to the pitcher's mound.
10
A mound is shaped by the activity of the society within it.
11
The mouth of the well is on the top of a mound.
12
Kit went to the end of the barrow-like mound of the turnip-pit.
13
He sat on the piazza of his house on the principal mound.
14
Gradually it resolved itself into a low mound in the dim light.
15
In the centre of a flat serving-dish arrange a mound of endive.
16
We are familiar with the idea of a terraced mound supporting buildings.
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Mound through the time
Mound across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Common
Ireland
Less common