mound
A mound is a heap or a pile of material or objects. You can make a mound of clothes by dumping your laundry onto your bed.
The noun mound is occasionally used to mean "a hill," but it most often describes a manmade pile, like a mound of stones or a mound of sand heaped on the beach, or a mound of snow that you sculpt into a rabbit. On a baseball diamond, the pitcher's mound is the little rise on which the pitcher stands to throw the ball. As a verb, mound means to pile something into a heaped shape.
Definitions of mound
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a collection of objects laid on top of each other
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synonyms:
agglomerate, cumulation, cumulus, heap, pile
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compost heap, compost pile
a heap of manure and vegetation and other organic residues that are decaying to become compost
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dunghill, midden, muckheap, muckhill
a heap of dung or refuse
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scrapheap
pile of discarded metal
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shock
a pile of sheaves of grain set on end in a field to dry; stalks of Indian corn set up in a field
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slagheap
pile of waste matter from coal mining etc
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stack
an orderly pile
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funeral pyre, pyre
wood heaped for burning a dead body as a funeral rite
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woodpile
a pile or stack of wood to be used for fuel
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stockpile
a storage pile accumulated for future use
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hayrick, haystack, rick
a stack of hay
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accumulation, aggregation, assemblage, collection
several things grouped together or considered as a whole
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structure consisting of an artificial heap or bank usually of earth or stones“they built small mounds to hide behind”
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hill
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barbette
(formerly) a mound of earth inside a fort from which heavy gun can be fired over the parapet
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barrow, burial mound, grave mound, tumulus
(archeology) a heap of earth placed over prehistoric tombs
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embankment
a long artificial mound of stone or earth; built to hold back water or to support a road or as protection
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snow bank, snowbank
a mound or heap of snow
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levee
an embankment that is built in order to prevent a river from overflowing
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bulwark, rampart, wall
an embankment built around a space for defensive purposes
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construction, structure
a thing constructed; a complex entity constructed of many parts
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(baseball) the slight elevation on which the pitcher stands
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synonyms:
hill, pitcher's mound
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baseball equipment
equipment used in playing baseball
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baseball equipment
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a small natural hill
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the position on a baseball team of the player who throws the ball for a batter to try to hit
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form into a rounded elevation
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