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hill

noun
/hɪl//hɪɫ/UK

Etymology

From Middle English hil (“hill”), from Old English hyll (“hill”), from Proto-West Germanic *hulli (“hill”), from Proto-Germanic *hulliz (“hill”), from Proto-Indo-European *kl̥Hnís (“top, hill, rock”) (compare also Proto-Germanic *halluz (“stone, rock”)). Cognate with Middle Dutch hille, hulle (“hill”), Low German hull (“hill”), Faroese hólur (“hill”), Icelandic and Old Norse hóll (“hill”), Norn hul (“hillock”), Norwegian hol (“low hillock”), Swedish kulle (“hill”), Catalan coll (“hill”), Italian colle (“hill”), Latin collis (“hill”), Lithuanian kalnas (“hill, mountain”), Albanian kallumë (“big pile, tall heap”), Russian холм (xolm, “hill”), Old English holm (“rising land, island”). More at holm.

  1. inherited from *hulliz✻ — “hill”
  2. inherited from *hulli✻ — “hill”
  3. inherited from hyll — “hill”
  4. inherited from hil — “hill”

Definitions

  1. An elevated landmass smaller than a mountain.

    • The park is sheltered from the wind by a hill to the east.

  2. A sloping road.

    • You need to pick up speed to get up the hill that's coming up.

  3. A heap of earth surrounding a plant.

  4. ›+ 9 more definitions

    1. A single cluster or group of plants growing close together, and having the earth heaped…

      A single cluster or group of plants growing close together, and having the earth heaped up about them.

      • a hill of corn or potatoes

    2. The pitcher’s mound.

    3. The raised portion of the surface of a vinyl record.

    4. To form into a heap or mound.

      • Spread, heaped up, stacked with good things; and redolent of citrons and grapes, hilling round tall vases of wine;

    5. To heap or draw earth around plants.

      • After the seeds were inserted, the earth was hilled up all around into a smooth little mound.

    6. Capitol Hill

      Capitol Hill; the US Congress

    7. Parliament Hill

      Parliament Hill; the Parliament of Canada; the parliamentary precinct in Ottawa as opposed to parliamentary functions elsewhere in the country

    8. A topographic surname from Middle English for someone who lived on or by a hill.

      • Ms. Davis — who at different points in the set called to mind Andrew Hill, Cecil Taylor and Paul Bley, without resorting to mimicry — often led this charge, starting out with a blank canvas and creeping slantwise into a repeatable motif.

    9. A number of places

      A number of places:

The neighborhood

Derived

Acacia Hills, Adelaide Hills, Alabama Hills, Alexandra Hills, ant-hill, anthill, Arana Hills, Argents Hill, Ashford Hill, Ash Hill, Ashton under Hill, Aurora Hill, Bakers Hill, Bakery Hill, Bald Hills, Bardon Hill, Bar Hill, Barlows Hill, Barrack Hill, Barrow Hill, Barton Hill, Bass Hill, Batasan Hills, Battery Hill, Baulkham Hills, Bayston Hill, Beacon Hill, Beaumont Hills, Bellevue Hill, Bell Post Hill, Berry Hill, Beverly Hills, Bielsdown Hills, Biggin Hill, Big Hill, Birley with Upper Hill, Blackford Hill, Black Hill, Black Hills, Blue Hill · +487 more

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at hill. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at hill. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

7 hops · closes at hill

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA