| 词汇 | mound |
| 释义 | mound noun[ C ] uk /maʊnd/ us /maʊnd/ moundnoun[C] (PILE)a large pile of earth, stones, etc. like a small hill: 土堆，沙石堆;小丘 a burial mound (= a place where people were buried in ancient times)墓冢 a large pile of something: （一）堆，一（垛） a mound of potatoes/papers一堆土豆／报纸 Geography: banks & embankments bank bluff dune embankment hummock levee riverbank riverine riverside sandbank sandbar shoal snow bank terraced You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Geography: hills & mountains Masses and large amounts of things moundnoun[C] (BASEBALL)US the raised area in baseball from which the pitcher throws the ball（棒球场内高出地面的）投球区土墩 Pixel_Pig/E+/GettyImages Baseball & rounders 1-2-3 inning ahead alley around the hornidiom at bat bomb curve heater hit the ball out of the parkidiom hitting coach home plate home stand horsehide sac solo spitter split-fingered fastball splitter squeeze play swing mound | American Dictionarymound noun[ C ] us/mɑʊnd/ a rounded pile of dirt, sand, stones, or other material, or a raised area of earth: We’re using that mound of sand to level the ground for our new pool. A mound is also a rounded mass of something: a mound of spaghetti Examples of moundmound From the mound, he heard voices of people singing, as if at a banquet. Around the middle of the 1950s however, with the end of the moorland reclamations, the importance of burial mound research declined. One followed the edge of the mound or cairn to the north, whilst the other occupied the equivalent position to the south. Note that mound or pyramid base boundaries are straightened locally. The hard and dark frame of the mound certainly encompasses them. In 2004, several operations were excavated at the top of the mound, just south and east of an existing house. The illusive hidden house mound cloaked under tropical rain-forest cover has plagued the research. An element of competition can be assumed from the average increase in mound dimensions. As children were still not buried centrally in a mound, the age criterion must have been maintained. Tracks tend to be larger in the central portion of the series and consistently show a small back-push mound. On each mound four mound radii were measured to estimate the mound area and the mean radius determined the radius of the circular woodland plot. We calculated the frequency of trees in a plot that were situated on a termite mound. The ratios of termite mound to control soils also illustrate the differences in elemental concentrations between the two groups of sample material. The control samples all have a significantly greater amount of organic carbon than the termite mound samples. In 2000, several 1 1 m units were placed on and around the mound to identify the cultural sequence and search for possible architectural features. See all examples of mound These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. Collocations withmoundmoundThese are words often used in combination with mound. Click on a collocation to see more examples of it. burial mound In the mid-1950s attention shifted from burialmound research to large-scale settlement research. earthen mound Vaillant cites only the presence of an earthenmound. large mound They also display a largemound slope that characterizes the coarsening dynamics without slope selection. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. See all collocations with mound |
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