Mound

[maʊnd]

解释:

(noun.) structure consisting of an artificial heap or bank usually of earth or stones; 'they built small mounds to hide behind'.

(noun.) (baseball) the slight elevation on which the pitcher stands.

(verb.) form into a rounded elevation; 'mound earth'.

杰米整理--From WordNet

解释:

(n.) A ball or globe forming part of the regalia of an emperor or other sovereign. It is encircled with bands, enriched with precious stones, and surmounted with a cross; -- called also globe.

(n.) An artificial hill or elevation of earth; a raised bank; an embarkment thrown up for defense; a bulwark; a rampart; also, a natural elevation appearing as if thrown up artificially; a regular and isolated hill, hillock, or knoll.

(v. t.) To fortify or inclose with a mound.

校对:谢尔曼

同义词及近义词：

n. [1]. Hillock, heap.[2]. Rampart, bulwark, defence.

整理:梅

解释:

n. (her.) the representation of a globe encircled with bands and surmounted by a cross.—Also Monde.

n. an artificial mount: a natural hillock appearing as if thrown up by man's work: (fort.) a bank of earth or stone raised as a protection.—v.t. to fortify with a mound.—n.pl. Mound′-birds a family of Australasian gallinaceous birds which build large mounds as incubators for their eggs.—n. Mound′-build′er one of the primitive race which built the vast so-called Indian mounds found in the United States esp. east of the Mississippi River.

整理:莎丽