Mound : (흙/돌/모래) 더미, 언덕, 무더기, 많은 양의, 많은
Mound Up : 점점 쌓이다, 점점 많아지다
1)
a mound, it's like a little pile of something, particularly a pile of earth
there are serveral burial mounds in this landscape
a mound is normmaly rounded and it' slightly elevated
it's like a small hill, I think a hill is much bigger than a mound
a mound is not very high
it's a pile of something, thing is piled up
he mounded food onto his plate
it's raisesd piled of earth or dirt or sand or something else
it's just raised area
the builders delivered a mound of sand which they were going to use there was a mound of mashed potato on the side of his plate
he formed it into the shape of a mound
it's like a little knoll or a hill or a hammock or a hump or a rise
they dug a mound to protect the castle
a rounded pile of something
they used bulldozers to pile up the earth, they were mounds of earth
2)
we can use this word, mounds of, meaning lots of
I've got mounds of work to do, lots of work to do, loads of work to do
all his papers were mouonded in the corner
there was a mound of paper in the corner
it's like a heap or a pile
there were a mound of dirty dishes in the sink
a large but not enormous raised area
there were little mounds of rubbish that the poeple had pushed together
3)
to mound up, to get bigger
the amount of undone work is mounding up and we need to do something about it to deal with it
Formality : 5
Formality : 3.5 for to mound up and a mound of paper work
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