英语词汇“mound”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

单词	mound
释义	mound I. \ˈmau̇nd\ verb (-ed/-ing/-s) Etymology: origin unknown *transitive verb* 1. archaic a. : to surround with a barrier : fence < to mound over the hill would require double the rails — Jethro Tull > b. : to enclose or fortify with a ridge of earth < heaped hills that mound the sea — Alfred Tennyson > 2. a. : to gather into a heap : pile < snow mounded in high white cones above the pillars — Josephine Johnson > b. : to surround or cover with a raised heap : bank, hill < roses are mounded for winter protection > < the mounded grave of a British Tommy — T.O.Heggen > < spotted the wreck, which the silt of 22 centuries had mounded up — National Geographic > *intransitive verb* : to become a mound : pile up < thunderheads are mounding in the west > II. noun (-s) Usage: often attributive Etymology: origin unknown 1. a. dialect chiefly England : an encompassing hedge or fence b. obsolete : a line of demarcation : boundary < stars, whose whirling courses … mark the true mounds of years, and months, and days — Josuah Sylvester > 2. a. : an earthwork used as a fortification : rampart b. : a prehistoric earthwork constructed by Indian mound builders of No. America over a burial or sacrificial altar or as a foundation or fortification or for ceremonial purposes 3. a. : an accumulated mass or artificially produced heap : pile < mounds of oyster shells surround the weathered frame shacks — American Guide Series: Florida > < began to process mounds of orders — M.E.Harvey > < fluffy mounds of mashed potatoes — Jack Alexander > b. : the slightly elevated area in which a baseball pitcher's plate is set c. : a natural elevation : hill, knoll < mounds and dunes of loose sand — Willa Cather > < hurricanes … dragging in their centers a mound of seawater — Marjory S. Douglas > specifically : hump < under his left eye was a mound of bluish flesh — G.B.Shaw > III. noun also mond \ˈmänd\ (-s) Etymology: Middle French monde, literally, world, from Latin mundus : orb 1c(3)
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