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   Hill·ock

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   noun

   • 1. a small hill or mound.

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   • 1. hillocky adjective

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   What does a hillock mean?

   • Accessed 21 Apr. 2024. loading examples... A hillock is a small mound of land that's often nearby a group of taller hills. Small children can rarely resist rolling down a grassy hillock.

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   What is a small hill called?

   • A small hill; mound. A small protuberance or elevation, as from an organ, tissue, or structure. From hill + -ock. Go up the hillock and you'll see. Though the cathedral crowns the hillock round which clusters the old part of the town, a large portion of the newer town is built on the alluvial flats on either bank of the Rhone.

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   What is a hillock-like nanostructure?

   • They are hillock-like in shape with a diameter of 12 ± 4.9 nm and a height of 3.6 ± 1.5 nm. The results show that high potential energy of the incident ions is responsible for the observed hillock-like nanostructures. The formation of nano hillocks as a result of deposition of laser ablated pulsed atomic beam is also reported.

   HILLOCK | definition in the Cambridge English Dictionary

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   What did he see when he rounded a hillock?

   • As he rounded a hillock, he perceived that the roadway was now a crying mass of wagons, teams, and men. A motor-car came over the hillock, ran down the road to the driveway to the schoolmanse and drew up at the door. They did so, and soon saw that the land was level, and covered with woods, and that there were small hillocks upon it.

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   HILLOCK | definition in the Cambridge English Dictionary. Meaning of hillock in English. hillock. noun [ C ] us / ˈhɪl.ək / uk / ˈhɪl.ək / Add to word list Add to word list. a small hill. Synonyms. hummock literary. knoll. mound. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Geography: hills & mountains. acclivity. brow. clifftop. drumlin. esker.

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   A hillock is a small mound of land that's often nearby a group of taller hills. Small children can rarely resist rolling down a grassy hillock. The word hillock was formed by adding the Old English diminutive -oc to hill, meaning "little hill." You can also call this small, ridged slope of land a knoll.

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   Definition of hillock noun in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.

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   4 days ago · countable noun. A hillock is a small hill. The secret ingredient here is the parks that dominate the hillock. Synonyms: mound, knoll, hummock, barrow More Synonyms of hillock. Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner’s Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers. Word Frequency.

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   3 days ago · noun. a small hill; mound. Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved. Derived forms. hillocky (ˈhillocky) adjective. Word origin. ME hilloc: see hill & -ock. Word Frequency. hillock in American English. (ˈhɪlək) noun. a small hill.

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   A small protuberance or elevation, as from an organ, tissue, or structure. American Heritage Medicine. Synonyms: hammock. knoll. hummock. mound. tuffet. hill. knob. Other Word Forms of Hillock. Noun. Singular: hillock. Plural: hillocks. Origin of Hillock. Middle English hillok from hil hill hill.

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   Definitions of 'hillock' A hillock is a small hill. [...] Pronunciations of 'hillock' American English: hɪlək British English: hɪlək. More. Synonyms of 'hillock' • mound, knoll, hummock, barrow [...] More. Examples of 'hillock' in a sentence.