mound

«mound» in Mova's school dictionary: a small hill or a pile of earth, stones or other things — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 3 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a mound, mounds)

meaning for a pupil

1) A mound is a small hill or a pile of earth, stones or other things. tree →

2) A mound is a large pile of something, like a mound of washing. tree →

3) In baseball, the mound is the raised spot where the pitcher stands. tree →

sense in the lessons

In history, burial mounds were made long ago over graves. In science, ants and termites build mounds, and moles leave molehills. In everyday life, "a mound of" means a big heap. Phrases: "burial mound", "a mound of homework".

examples

• The termites built a huge mound. tree →
• We climbed to the top of a grassy mound. tree →
• There was a mound of dirty plates in the sink. tree →
• The ancient burial mound is very old. tree →
• The pitcher stood on the mound. tree →
• Moles leave little mounds of soil on the lawn. tree →
• On the mound sat the Cricket and took snuff. tree →

note

Countable. Similar: heap, pile, hillock. Do not confuse with "mount" (to climb onto).

In the corpora

• Giant anteaters walk on their knuckles to protect long front claws, which rip open hard termite mounds and can fight off a jaguar.
• Example: a girl in Queensland sits down on a sandy mound for a picnic.
• Near today's St Louis stood Cahokia, a city of perhaps 15,000 people about 900 years ago, with huge earth mounds.

Trees and pragmatics

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