knoll

FREQ #28965

n. 小山, 圆丘 vt. 敲钟 vi. 敲响

发音

UK /nəʊl/
其它
UK /nɒl/
US /noʊl/

词形变化

knolls 复数 knolls 三单 knolling 现在分词 knolled 过去式 knolled 过去分词

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A small mound or rounded hill.

    小山丘

    小丘

  2. 2.

    A rounded, underwater hill with a prominence of less than 1,000 metres, which does not breach the water's surface.

    圆丘

  3. 1.

    A knell.

v.
  1. 1.

    To ring (a bell) mournfully; to knell.

    及物
  2. 2.

    To sound (something) like a bell; to knell.

    及物/不及物
  3. 3.

    To call (someone, to church) by sounding or making a knell (as a bell, a trumpet, etc).

    及物
  4. 1.

    To arrange related objects in parallel or at 90 degree angles.

词汇关系

名词

同义词 4

mound hammock hillock hummock

上位词 1

hill

下位词 5

anthill molehill formicary kopje koppie

相关短语

Brent Knoll reef knoll Oak Knoll

词源

From Middle English knol, knolle, from Old English cnoll (“summit”), from Proto-Germanic *knudan-, *knudla-, *knulla- (“lump”), possibly related to cnotta. Related to Old Norse knollr (found only in names of places), Dutch knol (“tuber”), Swedish knöl (“tuber”), Danish knold (“hillock, clod, tuber”) and German Knolle (“bulb”).

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