noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a mound of earth (= a pile of earth that looks like a small hill )
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A mound of earth lay beside the grave.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
great
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The Elves have been known to bury their dead at these points in great high mounds or barrows.
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You will see it as a great mound becoming visible at the bottom of a steep slope that you are descending.
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The hay was in a great mound .
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On the Harberton Estancia, great coastal mounds mark the original homes of the Yahgan.
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The man burst into the kitchen carrying a great mound of kindling which he dumped in a pile by the door.
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Opposite her, piled up on a chair, was a great mound of presents.
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Late bluebells grew in profusion on the tumbled remains of the great mound .
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And the great mound of caviare - ignored on its melting bed of ice.
huge
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Presently they came to a stone wall, beyond which was a huge symmetrical mound .
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She rummaged through the huge mounds of books and papers that habitually covered her desk, finally locating her tiny Nagasyu keyboard.
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The floor was one huge mound of twitching corpses, over which rank after rank of the creatures advanced.
large
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A feature of much interest is a large mound named Giants Hill, now planted with trees.
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Until the excavations began, all that was visible of Norwich Castle was a stone keep on a large mound .
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Children with poor appetites are often put off when faced by a large mound of food on their plates.
small
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With gophers, he searches for small mounds .
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The closed, trusting eyes were surrounded by scars and small mounds of built-up skin.
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It stands on a small mound at the junction of the two villages.
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Top with a small mound of tortilla chips and serve at once.
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They built a town on a small mound between the two rivers.
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He lay on his stomach on a small mound and parted a dead gorse bush.
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This is where that small mound of lava on Bezymianny comes in.
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Margarit's attention is sharply focused, however, as she brings on stage a small mound of straw.
■ NOUN
burial
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He pressed the snow to make a mound , a burial mound.
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The dark humus deposits inside burial mounds were used as fertiliser.
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And maybe the one in the burial mound had been dropped by some one else entirely?
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Just because a road runs past a group of Bronze Age burial mounds does not mean that it is prehistoric.
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He had enjoyed the visit to the burial mound .
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A large urea, 32 X 6.4 m, was uncovered to establish the perimeters of two burial mounds .
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The site, composed of burial mounds lined with clay, was not expected to be ready for at least two weeks.
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The elongated, slightly oval hummock could hardly be called a grave, more a burial mound .
■ VERB
build
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For some megapodes, two brothers cooperate to help a female build her mound .
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Flamingos build nest mounds of mud and lay but one egg.
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Cranes nest on the ground, building a mound of vegetation usually in the middle of a swamp.
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Slides would be built over a mound , so there's no danger of children falling from a height.
throw
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He threw off a mound for about six minutes, twice between starts.
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He began throwing off a mound last week and will gradually increase his work while building arm strength.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a mound of gravel
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A mound of leaves is the perfect place for a hedgehog to hibernate.
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a burial mound
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The Grand Hotel was now just a mound of rubble.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Blue-gray mounds rose above the sea on the horizon.
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Each male constructs a layered mound of two tons of leaves, twigs, earth, and sand.
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Four minutes later, after a brief transit over pillows spotted with small white anemones, we arrive at another low mound .
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He pressed the snow to make a mound , a burial mound.
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Just within the entrance there were mounds of horse dung.
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The government also sponsored a series of excavations among the dusty mounds that litter the Mesopotamian plain.
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When the eggs hatch, the young struggle slowly to the surface of the mound , emerging ready to fend for themselves.