mound
pronunciation
How to pronounce mound in British English:
UK [maʊnd]
How to pronounce mound in American English:
US [maʊnd]
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- Noun:
- (baseball) the slight elevation on which the pitcher stands
- a small natural hill
- a collection of objects laid on top of each other
- structure consisting of an artificial heap or bank usually of earth or stones
- the position on a baseball team of the player who throws the ball for a batter to try to hit
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- Verb:
- form into a rounded elevation
Word Origin
- mound (n.)
- 1550s, "hedge, fence," also "embankment, dam" (a sense probably influenced by mount (n.)). The relationship between the noun and the verb is uncertain. Commonly supposed to be from Old English mund "hand, protection, guardianship" (cognate with Latin manus), but this is not certain (OED discounts it on grounds of sense). Perhaps a confusion of the native word and Middle Dutch mond "protection," used in military sense for fortifications of various types, including earthworks. From 1726 as "artificial elevation" (as over a grave); 1810 as "natural low elevation." As the place where the pitcher stands on a baseball field, from 1912.
- mound (v.)
- 1510s, "to enclose with a fence;" c. 1600 as "to enclose with an embankment;" see mound (n.). From 1859 as "to heap up." Related: Mounded; mounding.
Example
- 1. Discovering anything buried in a mound of hair .
- 2. A 4 00000 - tonne mound sits ready to burn .
- 3. Television footage showed a mound of bodies lying on the terminal floor .
- 4. How does this mound of meat bring into being her comprehension of the doctor 's question , and her ability to respond to it ?
- 5. The mound is coal ash shipped from kingston , tennessee .