Mounds can be categorized as a noun and a verb.
Verb |
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| mound - form into a rounded elevation; "mound earth" | ||
Noun |
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| mound - structure consisting of an artificial heap or bank usually of earth or stones; "they built small mounds to hide behind" | ||
| mound - (baseball) the slight elevation on which the pitcher stands | ||
| mound - a collection of objects laid on top of each other | ||
| mound - a small natural hill | ||
| mound - the position on a baseball team of the player who throws the ball for a batter to try to hit; "he has played every position except pitcher"; "they have a southpaw on the mound" |
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| 1. | noun | They can be bleak and eerie, often very exposed, often covered with antiquities like bronze age burial mounds, stone circles and settlements--until late in the bronze age they were rich farmlands,then a change in the climate caused the skies to cloud over and rain to wash the goodness from the soil. | |
| 2. | noun | Tom decided to cover the molehills with dirt and gravel until they started to look like mounds. Talk about making a mountain out of a molehill! | |
| 3. | noun | They have a southpaw on the mound. | |
| 4. | noun | Five pitchers are to take the mound in rotation. | |
| 5. | noun | The Takamatuzuka burial mound is located in Nara prefecture, Asukamura. | |
| 6. | noun | It is a two level style round burial mound, 23m diameter (lower level), 18m (higher). | |
| 7. | noun | What is that little mound in the middle of the field? | |
| 8. | noun | High up, crowning the grassy summit of a swelling mound whose sides are wooded near the base with the gnarled trees of the primeval forest, stands the old chateau of my ancestors. | |
| 9. | noun | But in fear of this, the almighty father hid them in black caves, and placed a mound and high mountains over them, and he gave them a king who, under a binding agreement, would know both to suppress them and to give them loose reins, when ordered. | |
| 10. | noun | "Ye too, my servants, hearken my commands. / Outside the city is a mound, where, dear / to Ceres once, but now deserted, stands / a temple, and an aged cypress near, / for ages hallowed with religious fear." | |
| 11. | noun | With cornel shrubs and many a prickly spear / of myrtle crowned, it chanced a mound was near. | |
| 12. | noun | Then again / a third tall shaft I grasp, with sinewy strain / and firm knees pressed against the sandy ground; / when O! shall tongue make utterance or refrain? / forth from below a dismal, groaning sound / heaves, and a piteous voice is wafted from the mound: | |
| 13. | noun | So to his shade, with funeral rites, we rear / a mound, and altars to the dead prepare, / wreathed with dark cypress. Round them, as of yore, / pace Troy's sad matrons, with their streaming hair. / Warm milk from bowls, and holy blood we pour, / and thrice with loud farewell the peaceful shade deplore. | |
| 14. | noun | Five pitchers are to take the mound in rotation. | |
| 15. | noun | The Takamatuzuka burial mound is located in Nara prefecture, Asukamura. | |
| 16. | verb | Mound earth. |
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| They can be bleak and eerie, often very exposed, often covered with antiquities like bronze age burial mounds, stone circles and settlements--until late in the bronze age they were rich farmlands,then a change in the climate caused the skies to cloud over and rain to wash the goodness from the soil. |
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| Tom decided to cover the molehills with dirt and gravel until they started to look like mounds. Talk about making a mountain out of a molehill! | |
| They have a southpaw on the mound. |
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| Five pitchers are to take the mound in rotation. | |
| The Takamatuzuka burial mound is located in Nara prefecture, Asukamura. | |
| It is a two level style round burial mound, 23m diameter (lower level), 18m (higher). | |
| What is that little mound in the middle of the field? | |
| High up, crowning the grassy summit of a swelling mound whose sides are wooded near the base with the gnarled trees of the primeval forest, stands the old chateau of my ancestors. | |
| But in fear of this, the almighty father hid them in black caves, and placed a mound and high mountains over them, and he gave them a king who, under a binding agreement, would know both to suppress them and to give them loose reins, when ordered. | |
| "Ye too, my servants, hearken my commands. / Outside the city is a mound, where, dear / to Ceres once, but now deserted, stands / a temple, and an aged cypress near, / for ages hallowed with religious fear." | |
| With cornel shrubs and many a prickly spear / of myrtle crowned, it chanced a mound was near. | |
| Then again / a third tall shaft I grasp, with sinewy strain / and firm knees pressed against the sandy ground; / when O! shall tongue make utterance or refrain? / forth from below a dismal, groaning sound / heaves, and a piteous voice is wafted from the mound: | |
| So to his shade, with funeral rites, we rear / a mound, and altars to the dead prepare, / wreathed with dark cypress. Round them, as of yore, / pace Troy's sad matrons, with their streaming hair. / Warm milk from bowls, and holy blood we pour, / and thrice with loud farewell the peaceful shade deplore. | |
| Five pitchers are to take the mound in rotation. | |
| The Takamatuzuka burial mound is located in Nara prefecture, Asukamura. | |
| verb | |
| Mound earth. |
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