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MOUND
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The position on a baseball team of the player who throws the ball for a batter to try to hit
Example:
they have a southpaw on the mound
Synonyms:
mound; pitcher
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("mound" is a kind of...):
position ((in team sports) the role assigned to an individual player)
Holonyms ("mound" is a member of...):
baseball team (a team that plays baseball)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Structure consisting of an artificial heap or bank usually of earth or stones
Example:
they built small mounds to hide behind
Synonyms:
hill; mound
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("mound" is a kind of...):
construction; structure (a thing constructed; a complex entity constructed of many parts)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "mound"):
barbette ((formerly) a mound of earth inside a fort from which heavy gun can be fired over the parapet)
barrow; burial mound; grave mound; tumulus ((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)
Derivation:
mound (form into a rounded elevation)
Sense 3
Meaning:
(baseball) the slight elevation on which the pitcher stands
Synonyms:
hill; mound; pitcher's mound
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("mound" is a kind of...):
baseball equipment (equipment used in playing baseball)
Domain category:
ball; 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)
Holonyms ("mound" is a part of...):
baseball diamond; diamond; infield (the area of a baseball field that is enclosed by 3 bases and home plate)
Sense 4
Meaning:
A collection of objects laid on top of each other
Synonyms:
agglomerate; cumulation; cumulus; heap; mound; pile
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("mound" is a kind of...):
accumulation; aggregation; assemblage; collection (several things grouped together or considered as a whole)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "mound"):
stockpile (a storage pile accumulated for future use)
woodpile (a pile or stack of wood to be used for fuel)
funeral pyre; pyre (wood heaped for burning a dead body as a funeral rite)
stack (an orderly pile)
slagheap (pile of waste matter from coal mining etc)
shock (a pile of sheaves of grain set on end in a field to dry; stalks of Indian corn set up in a field)
scrapheap (pile of discarded metal)
dunghill; midden; muckheap; muckhill (a heap of dung or refuse)
compost heap; compost pile (a heap of manure and vegetation and other organic residues that are decaying to become compost)
Sense 5
Meaning:
A small natural hill
Synonyms:
hammock; hillock; hummock; knoll; mound
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)
Hypernyms ("mound" is a kind of...):
hill (a local and well-defined elevation of the land)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "mound"):
anthill; formicary (a mound of earth made by ants as they dig their nest)
kopje; koppie (a small hill rising up from the African veld)
molehill (a mound of earth made by moles while burrowing)
Derivation:
mound (form into a rounded elevation)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Form into a rounded elevation
Example:
mound earth
Classified under:
Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing
Hypernyms (to "mound" is one way to...):
forge; form; mold; mould; shape; work (make something, usually for a specific function)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "mound"):
mound over (form a mound over)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Derivation:
mound (structure consisting of an artificial heap or bank usually of earth or stones)
mound (a small natural hill)
Context examples:
This speedy appearance of life on Earth fits with other evidence of recently discovered 3,700 million year old sedimentary mounds that were shaped by microorganisms, first author, PhD student Matthew Dodd explained.
(World's Oldest Fossils Unearthed, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
Either of the fleshy mounds in the rear pelvic area of the human body formed by the gluteal muscles.
(Buttock, NCI Thesaurus)
People in the Sonoran Desert and Tonto Basin, in what is today Arizona, were more culturally advanced, with irrigation, ball courts, and eventually elevated platform mounds and compounds housing elite families.
(Scientists chart a baby boom in southwestern Native Americans from 500 to 1300 A.D., NSF)
I remember something, too, of the green grave-mounds; and I have not forgotten, either, two figures of strangers straying amongst the low hillocks and reading the mementoes graven on the few mossy head-stones.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
A type of breast reconstruction in which a section of skin, muscle, fat, and blood vessels from the abdomen is separated from surrounding tissue while retaining its blood supply, and tunneled under the skin to form a new breast mound.
(Pedicle TRAM Flap Procedure, NCI Thesaurus)
In every direction upon these moors there were traces of some vanished race which had passed utterly away, and left as its sole record strange monuments of stone, irregular mounds which contained the burned ashes of the dead, and curious earthworks which hinted at prehistoric strife.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The sisters set out at a pace, slow as the feebleness of Marianne in an exercise hitherto untried since her illness required;—and they had advanced only so far beyond the house as to admit a full view of the hill, the important hill behind, when pausing with her eyes turned towards it, Marianne calmly said, "There, exactly there,"—pointing with one hand, "on that projecting mound,—there I fell; and there I first saw Willoughby."
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
Blackened rocks and mounds of lava I had already seen everywhere peeping out from amid the luxuriant vegetation which draped them, but this asphalt pool in the jungle was the first sign that we had of actual existing activity on the slopes of the ancient crater.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
A muscle in the back called the latissimus dorsi, along with skin, fat, and blood vessels, is moved from the back to the chest to form a new breast mound or to form a pocket for a breast implant.
(Latissimus dorsi flap, NCI Dictionary)
Drylands with termite mounds can survive on significantly less rain than those without termite mounds.
(Dirt mounds made by termites in Africa, South America, Asia could prevent spread of deserts, NSF)
