English-Thai Dictionary

mound

N(กอง สิ่งของ  กอง ใหญ่  กองพะเนิน  pile heap kong-yai

 

mound

N จุด ขว้าง (กีฬา เบสบอล  pitcher's mound jud-kwang

 

mound

N เนิน  โคก  กอง ดิน  เนิน ดิน  hillock hummock dip valley noen

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

MOUND

n.[L. mons. See Mount. ] Something raised as a defense or fortification, usually a bank of earth or stone; a bulwark; a rampart or fence. God has thrown
That mountain as his garden mound, high raised.
To thrid the thickets or to leap the mounds.

 

MOUND

v.t.To fortify with a mound.

 

MOUNDED

pp. Surrounded or defended by mounds. The lakes high mounded.

 

MOUNDING

ppr. Defending by a mound.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

MOUND

Mound, n. Etym: [F. monde the world, L. mundus. See Mundane. ]

 

Defn: 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.

 

MOUND

Mound, n. Etym: [OE. mound, mund, protection, AS. mund protection, hand; akin to OHG. munt, Icel. mund hand, and prob. to L. manus. See Manual. ]

 

Defn: 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. To thrid the thickets or to leap the mounds. Dryden. Mound bird. (Zoöl.) Same as Mound maker (below ). -- Mound builders (Ethnol.), the tribe, or tribes, of North American aborigines who built, in former times, extensive mounds of earth, esp. in the valleys of the Mississippi and Ohio Rivers. Formerly they were supposed to have preceded the Indians, but later investigations go to show that they were, in general, identical with the tribes that occupied the country when discovered by Europeans. -- Mound maker (Zoöl.), any one of the megapodes. -- Shell mound, a mound of refuse shells, collected by aborigines who subsisted largely on shellfish. See Midden, and Kitchen middens.

 

MOUND

Mound, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Mounded; p. pr. & vb. n. Mounding. ]

 

Defn: To fortify or inclose with a mound.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

mound

mound 1 |mound maʊnd | ▶noun a rounded mass projecting above a surface. • a raised mass of earth, stones, or other compacted material, sometimes created artificially for purposes of defense or burial. • a small hill. • (a mound of /mounds of ) a large pile or quantity of something: burying potential problems under mounds of cash. • Baseball (in full pitcher's mound ) the elevated area from which the pitcher delivers the ball. ▶verb [ with obj. ] heap up into a rounded pile: mound the pie filling slightly in the center. • archaic enclose, bound, or fortify with an embankment: hills that mound the sea. PHRASES take the mound Baseball (of a pitcher ) have a turn at pitching: Morris will take the mound Tuesday. ORIGIN early 16th cent. (as a verb in the sense ‘enclose with a fence or hedge ’): of obscure origin. An early sense of the noun was ‘boundary hedge or fence. ’

 

mound

mound 2 |maʊnd mound | ▶noun archaic a ball representing the earth, used as part of royal regalia, e.g., on top of a crown, typically of gold and surmounted by a cross. ORIGIN Middle English (denoting the world ): from Old French monde, from Latin mundus ‘world. ’

 

mound builder

mound build er ▶noun another term for megapode.

 

Moundou

Moun dou |ˈmo͞ondo͞o ˈmundu | a commercial city in southern Chad; pop. 148,500 (est. 2009 ).

 

moundsman

mounds man |ˈmoun (d )zmən ˈmaʊndzmən | ▶noun ( pl. moundsmen ) Baseball a pitcher.

 

Oxford Dictionary

mound

mound 1 |maʊnd | ▶noun 1 a rounded mass projecting above a surface. • a small hill. • a raised mass of earth and stones created for purposes of defence or burial. • Baseball a slight elevation from which the pitcher delivers the ball. 2 (a mound of /mounds of ) a large pile or quantity of something: a mound of dirty crockery. ▶verb [ with obj. ] 1 heap up into a rounded pile: basmati rice was mounded on our plates. 2 archaic enclose or fortify with an embankment. PHRASES take the mound Baseball (of a pitcher ) have a turn at pitching. ORIGIN early 16th cent. (as a verb in the sense ‘enclose with a fence or hedge ’): of obscure origin. An early sense of the noun was ‘boundary hedge or fence ’.

 

mound

mound 2 |maʊnd | ▶noun archaic a ball representing the earth, used as part of royal regalia, e.g. on top of a crown, typically of gold and surmounted by a cross. ORIGIN Middle English (denoting the world ): from Old French monde, from Latin mundus ‘world ’.

 

mound-builder

mound-builder ▶noun another term for megapode.

 

Moundou

Moun dou |ˈmo͞ondo͞o ˈmundu | a commercial city in southern Chad; pop. 148,500 (est. 2009 ).

 

moundsman

mounds man |ˈmoun (d )zmən ˈmaʊndzmən | ▶noun ( pl. moundsmen ) Baseball a pitcher.

 

American Oxford Thesaurus

mound

mound noun 1 a mound of leaves: heap, pile, stack, mountain; mass, accumulation, assemblage. 2 high on the mound: hillock, hill, knoll, rise, hummock, hump, embankment, bank, ridge, elevation; Geology drumlin. ▶verb mound up the rice on a serving plate: pile (up ), heap (up ).

 

Oxford Thesaurus

mound

mound noun 1 a mound of leaves and garden rubbish: heap, pile, stack; mass, collection, accumulation, aggregation, assemblage; mountain, pyramid; Scottish, Irish, & N. English rickle; Scottish bing. 2 he built his castle high on the mound: hillock, hill, knoll, rise, hummock, hump, embankment, bank, ridge, dune, tor, elevation, acclivity; Geology drumlin; Scottish brae; N. Amer. or technical butte; rare tump. 3 a burial mound | a low mound marks the site of the meeting place: barrow, tumulus; motte; Middle East tell; Russian kurgan. ▶verb mound up the rice on a serving plate: pile, pile up, heap, heap up.

 

Duden Dictionary

Mound

Mound Substantiv, maskulin , der |ma͜unt englisch maʊnd |der Mound; Genitiv: des Mounds, Plural: die Mounds englisch vorgeschichtlicher indianischer Erdwall als Grabhügel, Verteidigungsanlage oder Kultstätte in Nordamerika

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

mound

mound /maʊnd /名詞 複 ～s /-dz /C 1 (土 石などの )山 , 小山 ; 土手 ; (防御用 )土塁 ; 塚 ; (墓の )盛り土 ▸ mounds of earth 土の山 2 山 (pile ), 積み重ね ▸ under mounds of paper 書類の山に埋もれて 3 ｟くだけて ｠〖a ～ of A 〗大量 [多く ]のA ▸ I've got a mound of paperwork to do tonight .今夜は大量の書類を片づけなければならない 4 〘野球 〙(ピッチャー )マウンド ▸ take the mound 〈ピッチャーが 〉 (先発 )登板する 動詞 他動詞 1 …を山積みにする , 盛り上げる .2 …に (防御用の )土塁を築く .