Synonyms of the word

mound

• n. (obsolete, anatomy, measurement, figuratively) A hand.
• n. (obsolete) A protection; restraint; curb.
• n. (obsolete) A helmet.
• n. (obsolete) Might; size.
• n. An artificial hill or elevation of earth; a raised bank; an embankment thrown up for defense; a bulwark;…
• n. A natural elevation appearing as if thrown up artificially; a regular and isolated hill, hillock, or knoll.
• n. (baseball) Elevated area of dirt upon which the pitcher stands to pitch.
• n. A ball or globe forming part of the regalia of an emperor or other sovereign. It is encircled with bands,…
• n. (US, vulgar, slang) The mons veneris.
• v. (transitive) To fortify with a mound; add a barrier, rampart, etc. to.
• v. (transitive) To force or pile into a mound or mounds.

accumulation

• n. The act of amassing or gathering, as into a pile.
• n. The process of growing into a heap or a large amount.
• n. A mass of something piled up or collected.
• n. (law) The concurrence of several titles to the same proof.
• n. (accounting) The continuous growth of capital by retention of interest or savings.
• n. (finance) The action of investors buying an asset from other investors when the price of the asset is…

agglomerate

• adj. collected into a ball, heap, or mass.
• n. A collection or mass.
• n. (geology) A mass of angular volcanic fragments united by heat; distinguished from conglomerate.
• n. (meteorology) An ice cover of floe formed by the freezing together of various forms of ice.
• v. To wind or collect into a ball; hence, to gather into a mass or anything like a mass.

aggregation

• n. The act of collecting together (aggregating).
• n. The state of being collected into a mass, assemblage, or sum (aggregated).
• n. A collection of particulars; an aggregate.
• n. (networking) Summarizing multiple routes into one route.
• n. (epidemiology) The majority of the parasite population concentrated into a minority of the host population.
• n. (object-oriented programming) Kind of object composition which does not imply ownership.

assemblage

• n. The process of assembling or bringing together.
• n. A collection of things which have been gathered together or assembled.
• n. (art) A visual art form similar to collage, which combines two-dimensional and three-dimensional, often…

collection

• n. A set of items or amount of material procured or gathered together.
• n. Multiple related objects associated as a group.
• n. The activity of collecting.
• n. (topology, analysis) A set of sets.
• n. A gathering of money for charitable or other purposes, as by passing a contribution box for donations.
• n. (obsolete) The act of inferring or concluding from premises or observed facts; also, that which is inferred.
• n. (Britain) The jurisdiction of a collector of excise.
• n. (in the plural, Britain, Oxford University slang) A set of college exams generally taken at the start…

construction

• n. The process of constructing.
• n. Anything that has been constructed.
• n. The trade of building structures.
• n. A building, model or some other structure.
• n. (art) A (usually non-representational) structure, such as a collage etc.
• n. The manner in which something is built.
• n. (grammar) A group of words arranged to form a meaningful phrase.
• n. The act or result of construing the meaning of something.
• n. The meaning or interpretation of a text, action etc.; the way something is viewed by an observer or onlooker.
• n. (geometry) A geometric figure of arcs and line segments that is drawable with a straightedge and compass.

cumulation

• n. Accumulation.
• n. The effect of free trade agreements on the rules of origin in calculating importation tariffs, quotas,…

cumulus

• n. A large white puffy cloud that develops through convection. On a hot, humid day, they can form towers…
• n. A mound or heap.

forge

• n. Furnace or hearth where metals are heated prior to hammering them into shape.
• n. Workshop in which metals are shaped by heating and hammering them.
• n. The act of beating or working iron or steel.
• v. (metallurgy) To shape a metal by heating and hammering.
• v. To form or create with concerted effort.
• v. To create a forgery of; to make a counterfeit item of; to copy or imitate unlawfully.
• v. To make falsely; to produce, as that which is untrue or not genuine; to fabricate.
• v. (often as forge ahead) To move forward heavily and slowly (originally as a ship); to advance gradually…
• v. (sometimes as forge ahead) To advance, move or act with an abrupt increase in speed or energy.

form

• n. (heading, physical) To do with shape.
• n. (social) To do with structure or procedure.
• n. A blank document or template to be filled in by the user.
• n. Level of performance.
• n. (grammar) A grouping of words which maintain grammatical context in different usages; the particular shape…
• n. The den or home of a hare.
• n. (computing, programming) A window or dialogue box.
• n. (taxonomy) An infraspecific rank.
• n. (printing, dated) The type or other matter from which an impression is to be taken, arranged and secured…
• n. (geometry) A quantic.
• n. (sports, fitness) A specific way of performing a movement.
• v. (transitive) To assume (a certain shape or visible structure).
• v. (transitive) To give (a shape or visible structure) to a thing or person.
• v. (intransitive) To take shape.
• v. To put together or bring into being; assemble.
• v. (transitive, linguistics) To create (a word) by inflection or derivation.
• v. (transitive) To constitute, to compose, to make up.
• v. To mould or model by instruction or discipline.
• v. To provide (a hare) with a form.
• v. (electrical, historical, transitive) To treat (plates) to prepare them for introduction into a storage…

hammock

• n. A swinging couch or bed, usually made of netting or canvas about six feet wide, suspended by clews or…
• n. (US, archaic outside dialects) A piece of land thickly wooded, and usually covered with bushes and vines.
• v. (intransitive) to lie in a hammock.
• v. (transitive) (of a cloth) to hang in a way that resembles a hammock.
• v. (transitive) to make something be wrapped tight, like in a hammock.

heap

• n. A crowd; a throng; a multitude or great number of people.
• n. A pile or mass; a collection of things laid in a body, or thrown together so as to form an elevation.
• n. A great number or large quantity of things.
• n. (computing) A data structure consisting of trees in which each node is greater than all its children.
• n. (computing) Memory that is dynamically allocated.
• n. (colloquial) A dilapidated place or vehicle.
• n. (colloquial) A lot, a large amount.
• v. (transitive) To pile in a heap.
• v. (transitive) To form or round into a heap, as in measuring.
• v. (transitive) To supply in great quantity.

hill

• n. An elevated location smaller than a mountain.
• n. A sloping road.
• n. (US) A heap of earth surrounding a plant.
• n. (US) A single cluster or group of plants growing close together, and having the earth heaped up about…
• n. (baseball) The pitcher’s mound.
• v. To form into a heap or mound.
• v. To heap or draw earth around plants.

hillock

• n. A small hill.

hummock

• n. A small hill; a hillock; a knoll.
• n. A ridge or hill of ice in an ice field.

knoll

• n. A small mound or rounded hill.
• n. A knell.
• v. To ring (a bell) mournfully; to knell.
• v. To sound, like a bell; to knell.
• v. To arrange related objects in parallel or at 90 degree angles.

mold

• n. A hollow form or matrix for shaping a fluid or plastic substance.
• n. A frame or model around or on which something is formed or shaped.
• n. Something that is made in or shaped on a mold.
• n. The shape or pattern of a mold.
• n. General shape or form.
• n. Distinctive character or type.
• n. A fixed or restrictive pattern or form.
• n. (architecture) A group of moldings.
• n. (anatomy) A fontanelle.
• v. (transitive) To shape in or on a mold.
• v. (transitive) To form into a particular shape; to give shape to.
• v. (transitive) To guide or determine the growth or development of; influence.
• v. (transitive) To fit closely by following the contours of.
• v. (transitive) To make a mold of or from (molten metal, for example) before casting.
• v. (transitive) To ornament with moldings.
• v. (intransitive) To be shaped in or as if in a mold.
• n. A natural substance in the form of a woolly or furry growth of tiny fungi that appears when organic material…
• v. (transitive) To cause to become moldy; to cause mold to grow upon.
• v. (intransitive) To become moldy; to be covered or filled, in whole or in part, with a mold.
• n. Loose friable soil, rich in humus and fit for planting.
• v. To cover with mold or soil.

mould

• n. (Britain, Canada, Australia) Alternative spelling of mold.
• v. (Britain, Canada, Australia) Alternative spelling of mold.

pile

• n. A mass of things heaped together; a heap.
• n. (figuratively, informal) A group or list of related items up for consideration, especially in some kind…
• n. A mass formed in layers.
• n. A funeral pile; a pyre.
• n. A large building, or mass of buildings.
• n. A bundle of pieces of wrought iron to be worked over into bars or other shapes by rolling or hammering…
• n. A vertical series of alternate disks of two dissimilar metals, as copper and zinc, laid up with disks…
• n. (obsolete) The reverse (or tails) of a coin.
• n. (figuratively) A list or league.
• v. (transitive, often used with the preposition "up") To lay or throw into a pile or heap; to heap up; to…
• v. (transitive) To cover with heaps; or in great abundance; to fill or overfill; to load.
• v. (transitive) To add something to a great number.
• v. (transitive) (of vehicles) To create a hold-up.
• v. (transitive, military) To place (guns, muskets, etc.) together in threes so that they can stand upright,…
• n. (obsolete) A dart; an arrow.
• n. The head of an arrow or spear.
• n. A large stake, or piece of pointed timber, steel etc., driven into the earth or sea-bed for the support…
• n. (heraldry) One of the ordinaries or subordinaries having the form of a wedge, usually placed palewise,…
• v. (transitive) To drive piles into; to fill with piles; to strengthen with piles.
• n. (usually in the plural) A hemorrhoid.
• n. Hair, especially when very fine or short; the fine underfur of certain animals. (Formerly countable, now…
• n. The raised hairs, loops or strands of a fabric; the nap of a cloth.
• n. An atomic pile; an early form of nuclear reactor.

pitcher

• n. One who pitches anything, as hay, quoits, a ball, etc.
• n. (baseball, softball), the player who delivers the ball to the batter.
• n. (chiefly US, colloquial) The top partner in a homosexual relationship or penetrator in a sexual encounter…
• n. (obsolete) A sort of crowbar for digging.
• n. A wide-mouthed, deep vessel for holding liquids, with a spout or protruding lip and a handle; a water…
• n. (botany) A tubular or cuplike appendage or expansion of the leaves of certain plants. See pitcher plant.

position

• n. A place or location.
• n. A post of employment; a job.
• n. A status or rank.
• n. An opinion, stand, or stance.
• n. A posture.
• n. (team sports) A place on the playing field, together with a set of duties, assigned to a player.
• n. (finance) An amount of securities or commodities held by a person, firm, or institution.
• n. (arithmetic) A method of solving a problem by one or two suppositions; also called the rule of trial and…
• n. (chess) The full state of a chess game at any given turn.
• v. To put into place.

shape

• n. The status or condition of something.
• n. Condition of personal health, especially muscular health.
• n. The appearance of something, especially its outline.
• n. Form; formation.
• n. (iron manufacture) A rolled or hammered piece, such as a bar, beam, angle iron, etc., having a cross section…
• n. (iron manufacture) A piece which has been roughly forged nearly to the form it will receive when completely…
• n. (cooking, now rare) A mould for making jelly, blancmange etc., or a piece of such food formed moulded…
• n. (programming) In the Hack programming language, a group of data fields each of which has a name and a…
• v. (Northern England, Scotland, rare) To create or make.
• v. (transitive) To give something a shape and definition.
• v. To form or manipulate something into a certain shape.
• v. (of a country, person, etc) To give influence to.
• v. To suit; to be adjusted or conformable.
• v. (obsolete) To imagine; to conceive.

structure

• n. A cohesive whole built up of distinct parts.
• n. The underlying shape of a solid.
• n. The overall form or organization of something.
• n. A set of rules defining behaviour.
• n. (computing) Several pieces of data treated as a unit.
• n. (fishing, uncountable) Underwater terrain or objects (such as a dead tree or a submerged car) that tend…
• n. A body, such as a political party, with a cohesive purpose or outlook.
• n. (logic) A set along with a collection of finitary functions and relations.
• v. (transitive) To give structure to; to arrange.

work

• n. (heading, uncountable) Employment.
• n. (heading, uncountable) Effort.
• n. Sustained effort to achieve a goal or result, especially overcoming obstacles.
• n. (heading) Product; the result of effort.
• n. (uncountable, slang, professional wrestling) The staging of events to appear as real.
• n. (mining) Ore before it is dressed.
• v. (intransitive) To do a specific task by employing physical or mental powers.
• v. (transitive) To effect by gradual degrees.
• v. (transitive) To embroider with thread.
• v. (transitive) To set into action.
• v. (transitive) To cause to ferment.
• v. (intransitive) To ferment.
• v. (transitive) To exhaust, by working.
• v. (transitive) To shape, form, or improve a material.
• v. (transitive) To operate in a certain place, area, or speciality.
• v. (transitive) To operate in or through; as, to work the phones.
• v. (transitive) To provoke or excite; to influence.
• v. (transitive) To use or manipulate to one’s advantage.
• v. (transitive) To cause to happen or to occur as a consequence.
• v. (transitive) To cause to work.
• v. (intransitive) To function correctly; to act as intended; to achieve the goal designed for.
• v. (intransitive, figuratively) To influence.
• v. (intransitive) To effect by gradual degrees; as, to work into the earth.
• v. (intransitive) To move in an agitated manner.
• v. (intransitive) To behave in a certain way when handled;.
• v. (transitive, with two objects, poetic) To cause (someone) to feel (something).
• v. (obsolete, intransitive) To hurt; to ache.