Mound - definition, pronunciation, transcription
Amer.
|maʊnd|
Brit.
|maʊnd|
noun
- (baseball) the slight elevation on which the pitcher stands (syn: hill)
- a small natural hill (syn: hammock, hillock, hummock, knoll)
- a collection of objects laid on top of each other (syn: agglomerate, cumulation, cumulus, heap, pile)
- structure consisting of an artificial heap or bank usually of earth or stones (syn: hill)
- a small natural hill (syn: hammock, hillock, hummock, knoll)
- a collection of objects laid on top of each other (syn: agglomerate, cumulation, cumulus, heap, pile)
- structure consisting of an artificial heap or bank usually of earth or stones (syn: hill)
they built small mounds to hide behind
- the position on a baseball team of the player who throws the ball for a batter to try to hit (syn: pitcher)they have a southpaw on the mound
verb
- form into a rounded elevation
mound earth
Extra examples
He mounded the food onto his plate.
There's a mound of papers on my desk.
The waiter appeared with a huge mound of spaghetti.
Her bed was a mound of soft pine needles.
...credited the win to the pitcher's sterling performance on the mound...
...made a little hollow in her mound of mashed potatoes and filled it with gravy...
Word forms
noun
singular: mound
plural: mounds
singular: mound
plural: mounds
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