different between alot vs hill

English

Adverb

alot (not comparable)

1. (nonstandard, proscribed) Alternative spelling of a lot (compare to awhile).

Noun

alot (uncountable)

1. (nonstandard, proscribed) Alternative spelling of a lot
   • 2000, Teaching Secondary English, ed. Daniel Sheridan. [in a tenth-grade student's paper]

     There was alot of sex discrimination in the 60’s. For one thing there was no sports for girls and in alot of schools the female teachers were not allowed to get married or they could be fired. [1]

   • 2003, Matt Janacone, Three by the Sea [2]

     It was alot of lumber, alot of condos, and Joe did not know alot about either of them, only that it was alot of money; he hated to throw his money into something he did not know alot about.

   • 2005, Aphrodite Jones, Cruel Sacrifice [From the suicidal patient's own writing.] [3]

     She talked about death: “My philosophy on life is it could be alot better. Like I would’ve never gotten into this mess if I wouldn’t have tried to commit suicide. Actually I was just trying to make myself sick. But then again it could be alot worse! [...]”

Usage notes

This spelling of "a lot" is frequent in informal writing but not generally accepted by arbiters of English usage. Others view it as a legitimate contraction. Some occurrences of alot in print may be typographical errors.

• 1993, The Columbia Guide to Standard American English calls alot “substandard” and notes that it is “increasingly found in informal correspondence and student writing” and “has as yet received no sanction in print except on the op-ed and sports pages.” [4] [5]
• 1996, The American Heritage Book of English Usage states that “alot is still considered an error in print” but notes that standard words have formed by fusion of the article with a noun, such as another and awhile, and suggests the possibility that alot may, like them, eventually enter standard usage. [6]
• 2004, Jack Lynch Guide to Grammar and Style (entry dated 2004) flatly states this to be a two-word expression. [7]
• 2004, The Cambridge Guide to English Usage also compares alot to awhile. It states alot to be “still regarded as nonstandard” and notes 50 appearances in the British National Corpus, “almost entirely from three sources: e-mail, TV autocue data, and TV newscripts.” It suggests that some usages of alot in typewritten use are to be considered merely typos of the standard a lot though its appearance in handwriting and typescript is “more significant, as the shadow of things to come.” [8]

See also

• lotta
• moreso

Anagrams

• ATOL, Alto, Toal, alto, alto-, atlo-, lota, talo-, tola

Indonesian

Etymology

From Javanese alot (??????).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?al?t?/
• Hyphenation: alot

Noun

alot (first-person possessive alotku, second-person possessive alotmu, third-person possessive alotnya)

1. (dialect, Java) tough, hard.

   Synonym: liat

   Antonym: lancar

Further reading

• “alot” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

Javanese

Etymology

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Adjective

alot

1. tough, hard to pierce
2. not easily discouraged

Descendants

• ? Indonesian: alot

Kiput

Etymology

From Proto-North Sarawak *alud.

Noun

alot

1. boat

English

Etymology

From Middle English hill, from Old English hyll (“hill”), from Proto-Germanic *hulliz (“stone, rock”), from Proto-Indo-European *kl?Hnís (“top, hill, rock”). Cognate with Middle Dutch hille, hulle (“hill”), Low German hull (“hill”), Old Norse hóll (“hill”), Latin collis (“hill”), Lithuanian kalnas, Albanian kallumë (“big pile, tall heap”), Russian ???? (xolm, “hill”), Old English holm (“rising land, island”). More at holm.

Pronunciation

• enPR: h?l, IPA^(key): /h?l/, [h??]
• Rhymes: -?l
• Homophone: heel (in some dialects)

Noun

hill (plural hills)

1. An elevated landmass smaller than a mountain.

   • So this was my future home, I thought! […] Backed by towering hills, the but faintly discernible purple line of the French boundary off to the southwest, a sky of palest Gobelin flecked with fat, fleecy little clouds, it in truth looked a dear little city; the city of one's dreams.

2. A sloping road.

3. (US) A heap of earth surrounding a plant.
4. (US) A single cluster or group of plants growing close together, and having the earth heaped up about them.

5. (baseball) The pitcher’s mound.
6. The raised portion of the surface of a vinyl record.

   Antonym: dale

Hyponyms

• (elevation): hillock, toman (smaller hills)

Derived terms

Translations

Further reading

• hill on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Hill in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)

Verb

hill (third-person singular simple present hills, present participle hilling, simple past and past participle hilled)

1. To form into a heap or mound.
2. To heap or draw earth around plants.

Translations

Westrobothnian

Etymology

Cognate with Icelandic hilla, Swedish hylla.

Noun

hill f (definite singular hilla)

1. shelf

Synonyms

• fjahl