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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