mound

• n. 盛り; 高地; マウンド; 堤防
• vt.積み上げる；盛土する
• vi. 積み上げる

中英語のmound, 防御的な土壁, 囲い, 古英語のmund, 手, 保護, 後見, PIE*man, 手から, 語源的にはmanual, manipulateと同じ.

mound (n.)

1550s, "hedge, fence," also "embankment, dam" (a sense probably influenced by mount (n.)). The relationship between the noun and the verb is uncertain. Commonly supposed to be from Old English mund "hand, protection, guardianship" (cognate with Latin manus), but this is not certain (OED discounts it on grounds of sense). Perhaps a confusion of the native word and Middle Dutch mond "protection," used in military sense for fortifications of various types, including earthworks. From 1726 as "artificial elevation" (as over a grave); 1810 as "natural low elevation." As the place where the pitcher stands on a baseball field, from 1912.

mound (v.)

1510s, "to enclose with a fence;" c. 1600 as "to enclose with an embankment;" see mound (n.). From 1859 as "to heap up." Related: Mounded; mounding.

1. The table was a mound of paper and books.

机の上に書類と本がいっぱい積んであります。

2.a Bronze Age burial mound

青銅時代の墓塚

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3.The explorers climbed a mound to survey the land around them.

探査者は丘に登って周囲の土地を探査した。

4.There is a mound of papers on my desk.

私の机の上にはたくさんのファイルがあります。

5.The mound can be used asour screen.

この丘は私たちのマスキングになります。