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mound

(mound)

1. A pile of earth, gravel, sand, rocks, or debris heaped for protection or concealment.

2. A natural elevation, such as a small hill.

3. A group of things collected in a mass or heap: found his keys in a mound of laundry. See Synonyms at heap.

4. often mounds A great deal; a lot: has mounds of homework to finish.

5. Archaeology A large artificial pile of earth or stones often marking a burial site.

6. Baseball The slightly elevated pitcher's area in the center of the diamond.

7. Archaic A hedge or fence.

tr.v. mound·ed, mound·ing, mounds

To heap into a raised mass: mounded the dirt around the plants.

[Origin unknown.]

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mound

(maʊnd)

1. a raised mass of earth, debris, etc

2. any heap or pile: a mound of washing.

3. (Physical Geography) a small natural hill

4. (Archaeology) archaeol another word for barrow²

5. (Civil Engineering) an artificial ridge of earth, stone, etc, as used for defence

6. (often foll by up) to gather into a mound; heap

7. (tr) to cover or surround with a mound: to mound a grave.

[C16: earthwork, perhaps from Old English mund hand, hence defence: compare Middle Dutch mond protection]

mound

(maʊnd)

(Heraldry) heraldry a rare word for orb¹

[C13 (meaning: world, C16: orb): from French monde, from Latin mundus world]

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mound

(maʊnd)

n.

1. a natural elevation of earth; hillock or knoll.

2. an artificial elevation of earth, as for a defense work or a dam; embankment.

3. a heap or raised mass: a mound of papers.

4. the slightly raised ground from which a baseball pitcher delivers the ball.

v.t.

5. to form into a mound; heap up.

6. to furnish with a mound of earth, as for a defense.

[1505–15; earlier: hedge or fence used as a boundary or protection; compare Old English mund hand (hence, protection), c. Old Norse mund protection]

mound

causeway - A raised path, road, or way across a wet place or stretch of water—based on causey, "a mound, embankment, or dam to retain water."
tumulus, barrow - A tumulus is the mound of earth placed over a tomb, synonymous with barrow.
hill of beans - Refers to the planting practice of placing the seeds in clumps in a little mound (hill) of soil.
moat - From French mote/motte, meaning "mound."

mound

Past participle: mounded
Gerund: mounding

Imperative
mound
mound

Present
I mound
you mound
he/she/it mounds
we mound
you mound
they mound

Preterite
I mounded
you mounded
he/she/it mounded
we mounded
you mounded
they mounded

Present Continuous
I am mounding
you are mounding
he/she/it is mounding
we are mounding
you are mounding
they are mounding

Present Perfect
I have mounded
you have mounded
he/she/it has mounded
we have mounded
you have mounded
they have mounded

Past Continuous
I was mounding
you were mounding
he/she/it was mounding
we were mounding
you were mounding
they were mounding

Past Perfect
I had mounded
you had mounded
he/she/it had mounded
we had mounded
you had mounded
they had mounded

Future
I will mound
you will mound
he/she/it will mound
we will mound
you will mound
they will mound

Future Perfect
I will have mounded
you will have mounded
he/she/it will have mounded
we will have mounded
you will have mounded
they will have mounded

Future Continuous
I will be mounding
you will be mounding
he/she/it will be mounding
we will be mounding
you will be mounding
they will be mounding

Present Perfect Continuous
I have been mounding
you have been mounding
he/she/it has been mounding
we have been mounding
you have been mounding
they have been mounding

Future Perfect Continuous
I will have been mounding
you will have been mounding
he/she/it will have been mounding
we will have been mounding
you will have been mounding
they will have been mounding

Past Perfect Continuous
I had been mounding
you had been mounding
he/she/it had been mounding
we had been mounding
you had been mounding
they had been mounding

Conditional
I would mound
you would mound
he/she/it would mound
we would mound
you would mound
they would mound

Past Conditional
I would have mounded
you would have mounded
he/she/it would have mounded
we would have mounded
you would have mounded
they would have mounded

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Noun	1.	mound - (baseball) the slight elevation on which the pitcher stands pitcher's mound, hill baseball, baseball game - a ball game played with a bat and ball between two teams of nine players; teams take turns at bat trying to score runs; "he played baseball in high school"; "there was a baseball game on every empty lot"; "there was a desire for National League ball in the area"; "play ball!" baseball diamond, infield, diamond - the area of a baseball field that is enclosed by 3 bases and home plate baseball equipment - equipment used in playing baseball
	2.	mound - a small natural hill hammock, hillock, hummock, knoll anthill, formicary - a mound of earth made by ants as they dig their nest hill - a local and well-defined elevation of the land; "they loved to roam the hills of West Virginia" kopje, koppie - a small hill rising up from the African veld molehill - a mound of earth made by moles while burrowing
	3.	mound - a collection of objects laid on top of each other cumulation, heap, pile, cumulus, agglomerate aggregation, collection, accumulation, assemblage - several things grouped together or considered as a whole compost heap, compost pile - a heap of manure and vegetation and other organic residues that are decaying to become compost muckheap, muckhill, dunghill, midden - a heap of dung or refuse scrapheap - pile of discarded metal shock - a pile of sheaves of grain set on end in a field to dry; stalks of Indian corn set up in a field; "corn is bound in small sheaves and several sheaves are set up together in shocks"; "whole fields of wheat in shock" slagheap - pile of waste matter from coal mining etc stack - an orderly pile funeral pyre, pyre - wood heaped for burning a dead body as a funeral rite woodpile - a pile or stack of wood to be used for fuel stockpile - a storage pile accumulated for future use
	4.	mound - structure consisting of an artificial heap or bank usually of earth or stones; "they built small mounds to hide behind" hill barbette - (formerly) a mound of earth inside a fort from which heavy gun can be fired over the parapet burial mound, grave mound, tumulus, barrow - (archeology) a heap of earth placed over prehistoric tombs embankment - a long artificial mound of stone or earth; built to hold back water or to support a road or as protection snow bank, snowbank - a mound or heap of snow structure, construction - a thing constructed; a complex entity constructed of many parts; "the structure consisted of a series of arches"; "she wore her hair in an amazing construction of whirls and ribbons"
	5.	mound - 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" pitcher position - (in team sports) the role assigned to an individual player; "what position does he play?" baseball team - a team that plays baseball
Verb	1.	mound - form into a rounded elevation; "mound earth" shape, mould, mold, form, forge, work - make something, usually for a specific function; "She molded the rice balls carefully"; "Form cylinders from the dough"; "shape a figure"; "Work the metal into a sword" mound over - form a mound over

mound

noun

1. heap, bing (Scot.), pile, drift, stack, rick huge mounds of dirt

2. hill, bank, rise, dune, embankment, knoll, hillock, kopje or koppie (S. African) We sat on a grassy mound and had our picnic.

3. (Archaeology) barrow, tumulus an ancient, man-made burial mound

4. earthwork, rampart, bulwark, motte (History) a rough double-moated mound earmarked as an ancient monument

Related words
adjective tumular

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mound

noun

A group of things gathered haphazardly:

agglomeration, bank, cumulus, drift, heap, hill, mass, mess, mountain, pile, shock, stack, tumble.

verb

To put into a disordered pile:

bank, drift, heap, hill, lump, pile (up), stack.

Translations

رابِيه، رَبْوَه

kupa

høj

Hügel

montículo

butte colline monticule

hóll; hrúga; haugur

collinetta

paugursuzkalniņš

stabel

tepeciktümsek

土墩

mound

[maʊnd] N

1. (= pile) → montón m

2. (= hillock) → montículo m; (= burial mound) → túmulo m; (= earthwork) → terraplén m

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

mound

[ˈmaʊnd] n

[earth] → monticule m, tertre m

(= pile) → tas m burial mound

mound

(= hill, burial mound) → Hügel m; (= earthwork) → Wall m; (Baseball) → Wurfmal nt

(= pile) → Haufen m; (of books, letters) → Stoß m, → Stapel m

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mound

[maʊnd] n → rialzo, collinetta

mound

(maund) noun

a small hill or heap of earth etc. a grassy mound; a mound of rubbish.

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Another steely tentacle directed the powder from the basin along a ribbed channel towards some receiver that was hidden from me by the mound of bluish dust.

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'First and foremost,' said Olof, 'you must get a wide cloak to wear over your other clothes, when you are put into the mound. The Giant's ghost will walk after you are both left together in there, and he will have two dogs along with him.

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Leaving the house, with the children after her, she took the filled bucket to the dust-heap, and emptied it in a hollow place among the rubbish, about half-way up the mound. Then she took the children home; and there was an end of it for the day.

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Finally the hen, fluttering over the mound, exclaimed: "Why, here's a path!"

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His corpse was placed astride of his war-steed and a mound raised over them on the summit of the hill.

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Mr Boffin then showed his new man of business the Mounds, and his own particular Mound which had been left him as his legacy under the will before he acquired the whole estate.

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When we reached its neighborhood we found it was beautifully situated, but on top of a mound, or hill, round and tolerably steep, and about two hundred feet high.

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"The people of the Westerns wrought then a mound over the sea: it was high and broad, easy to behold by the sailors over the waves, and during ten days they built up the beacon of the war- renowned, the mightiest of fires.

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The snakes had turned and were wriggling back to the mound as quickly as they could.

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At last those mounted men rode away from the mound and disappeared.

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Our sport was very poor; but I had an opportunity of seeing the ruins of one of the ancient Indian villages, with its mound like a natural hill in the centre.

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Rising at five o'clock next morning, I took a walk about the village: none of the houses were strolling about to-day, but it was early for them yet, perhaps: and then amused myself by lounging in a kind of farm-yard behind the tavern, of which the leading features were, a strange jumble of rough sheds for stables; a rude colonnade, built as a cool place of summer resort; a deep well; a great earthen mound for keeping vegetables in, in winter time; and a pigeon-house, whose little apertures looked, as they do in all pigeon-houses, very much too small for the admission of the plump and swelling-breasted birds who were strutting about it, though they tried to get in never so hard.