hill

«hill» in Mova's school dictionary: high ground, lower than a mountain, with sloping sides — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (hill, hills)

meaning for a pupil

1) A hill is high ground, lower than a mountain, with sloping sides. tree →

2) A hill is also a slope on a road or path: «ride your bike up the hill». tree →

sense in the lessons

a climb with height or distance; time up and down; in geography: hills and valleys on a map, contour lines; in everyday life: sledging down a hill in winter, rolling down a grassy hill; in stories: a castle on a hill; phrases: «up the hill», «downhill», «over the hill» (getting old, joking)

examples

• The hill is 200 m high. tree →
• They climb the hill in 30 minutes. tree →
• It takes 10 minutes to go down the hill. tree →
• How long was the trip up and down? tree →
• We went sledging down the hill after the snow. tree →
• Jack and Jill went up the hill to fetch a pail of water. tree →
• The castle stands on top of a hill. tree →
• Cycling uphill is harder than cycling downhill. tree →
• From the hill we could see the whole town. tree →
• Must I go up hill or down? tree →

note

Height or distance; up and down times add (30 + 10 = 40 minutes). Going down is usually faster than going up. A mountain is higher than a hill. «Uphill», «downhill» are one word.

In the corpora

• In summer the tundra has huge swarms of mosquitoes, so thick that caribou run to windy hills or snow patches to escape them.
• Flooded paddy fields, built as steps on hills, drown many weeds that cannot cope.
• "Over the hill" is a joking way to say past one's best because of age.
• Keep away from ant hills and never sit on them, because fire ants in parts of the USA and Australia sting many times.
• You walk a scooter down a steep hill, because you can lose control.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «hill» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.