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mound 音标拼音: [m'ɑʊnd] n. 土墩,堤,小山
vt. 筑堤,用土堆防卫
vi. 积成堆 土墩,堤,小山筑堤,用土堆防卫积成堆 mound n 1: ( baseball) the slight elevation on which the pitcher stands [ synonym: { mound}, { hill}, { pitcher' s mound}] 2: a small natural hill [ synonym: { knoll}, { mound}, { hillock}, { hummock}, { hammock}] 3: a collection of objects laid on top of each other [ synonym: { pile}, { heap}, { mound}, { agglomerate}, { cumulation}, { cumulus}] 4: structure consisting of an artificial heap or bank usually of earth or stones; " they built small mounds to hide behind" [ synonym: { mound}, { hill}] 5: the position on a baseball team of the player who throws the ball for a batter to try to hit; " he has played every position except pitcher"; " they have a southpaw on the mound" [ synonym: { pitcher}, { mound}] v 1: form into a rounded elevation; " mound earth" Mound \ Mound\, v. t. [ imp. & p. p. { Mounded}; p. pr. & vb. n. { Mounding}.] To fortify or inclose with a mound. [ 1913 Webster] moundbird
Mound \ Mound\ ( mound), n. [ F. monde the world, L. mundus. See { Mundane}.] A ball or globe forming part of the regalia of an emperor or other sovereign. It is encircled with bands, enriched with precious stones, and surmounted with a cross; -- called also { globe}. [ 1913 Webster]
Mound \ Mound\, n. [ OE. mound, mund, protection, AS. mund protection, hand; akin to OHG. munt, Icel. mund hand, and prob. to L. manus. See { Manual}.] An artificial hill or elevation of earth; a raised bank; an embarkment thrown up for defense; a bulwark; a rampart; also, a natural elevation appearing as if thrown up artificially; a regular and isolated hill, hillock, or knoll. [ 1913 Webster] To thrid the thickets or to leap the mounds. -- Dryden. [ 1913 Webster] { Mound bird}. ( Zool.) See { moundbird} in the vocabulary. { Mound builders} ( Ethnol.), the tribe, or tribes, of North American aborigines who built, in former times, extensive mounds of earth, esp. in the valleys of the Mississippi and Ohio Rivers. Formerly they were supposed to have preceded the Indians, but later investigations go to show that they were, in general, identical with the tribes that occupied the country when discovered by Europeans. { Mound maker} ( Zool.), any one of the { megapodes}. See also { moundbird} in the vocabulary. { Shell mound}, a mound of refuse shells, collected by aborigines who subsisted largely on shellfish. See { Midden}, and { Kitchen middens}. [ 1913 Webster] 193 Moby Thesaurus words for " mound": abatis, advanced work, anthill, arch, arch dam, backstop, balistraria, bamboo curtain, bank, bank up, banquette, bar, barbed- wire entanglement, barbican, barrage, barricade, barrier, barrow, bartizan, bastion, battlement, bear- trap dam, beaver dam, boom, boundary stone, brae, brass, breakwater, breastwork, brick wall, buffer, bulkhead, bulwark, bust, butte, cairn, casemate, cenotaph, cheval- de- frise, circumvallation, cock, cofferdam, column, contravallation, counterscarp, cromlech, cross, cup, curtain, cyclolith, dam, defense, demibastion, dike, ditch, dolmen, down, drawbridge, drift, drumlin, dune, earthwork, elevation, embankment, enclosure, entanglement, escarp, escarpment, fell, fence, fieldwork, foothills, footstone, fortalice, fortification, gate, glacis, grave, gravestone, gravity dam, groin, haycock, haymow, hayrick, haystack, headstone, heap, heap up, hill, hillock, hoarstone, hummock, hump, hydraulic- fill dam, inscription, iron curtain, jam, jetty, kitchen midden, knob, knoll, leaping weir, levee, logjam, loophole, lunette, machicolation, mantelet, marker, mass, mausoleum, megalith, memento, memorial, memorial arch, memorial column, memorial statue, memorial stone, menhir, merlon, milldam, moat, mole, molehill, monolith, monticle, monticule, monument, moor, mountain, mow, necrology, obelisk, obituary, outwork, palisade, parados, parapet, pile, pile up, pillar, plaque, portcullis, postern gate, prize, pyramid, rampart, ravelin, redan, redoubt, reliquary, remembrance, ribbon, rick, rise, roadblock, rock- fill dam, rostral column, sally port, sand dune, scarp, sconce, seawall, shaft, shock, shrine, shutter dam, slope, snowdrift, stack, stack up, stela, stockade, stone, stone wall, stupa, swell, tablet, tell, tenaille, testimonial, tomb, tombstone, tope, tor, trophy, tumulus, vallation, vallum, wall, weir, wicket dam, work
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