different between hill vs cure

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

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /kj??(?)/, /kj??(?)/, /kj??(?)/
• (General American) enPR: kyo?or, kyûr, IPA^(key): /kj??/, /kj?/
• (Norfolk) IPA^(key): /k??(?)/
• Rhymes: -??(?), -??(?), -??(?)

Etymology 1

From Middle English cure, borrowed from Old French cure (“care, cure, healing, cure of souls”), from Latin cura (“care, medical attendance, cure”). Displaced native Old English h?lu.

Noun

cure (plural cures)

1. A method, device or medication that restores good health.
2. Act of healing or state of being healed; restoration to health after a disease, or to soundness after injury.
3. (figuratively) A solution to a problem.

   • Cold, hunger, prisons, ills without a cure.

   • 1763, Richard Hurd, On the Uses of Foreign Travel

     the proper cure of such prejudices

4. A process of preservation, as by smoking.
5. A process of solidification or gelling.
6. (engineering) A process whereby a material is caused to form permanent molecular linkages by exposure to chemicals, heat, pressure and/or weathering.
7. (obsolete) Care, heed, or attention.

   • vicarages of great cure, but small value

8. Spiritual charge; care of soul; the office of a parish priest or of a curate.
   • c. 1646, Henry Spelman, De Non Temerandis Ecclesiis: Churches Not to Be Violated

     The appropriator was the incumbent parson, and had the cure of the souls of the parishioners.

9. That which is committed to the charge of a parish priest or of a curate.

   Synonym: curacy

Derived terms

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English curen, from Old French curer, from Latin c?r?re. Partially displaced Old English ?eh?lan, whence Modern English heal.

Verb

cure (third-person singular simple present cures, present participle curing, simple past and past participle cured)

1. (transitive) To restore to health.

   Synonym: heal

2. (transitive) To bring (a disease or its bad effects) to an end.

3. (transitive) To cause to be rid of (a defect).

4. (transitive) To prepare or alter especially by chemical or physical processing for keeping or use.

5. (intransitive) To bring about a cure of any kind.
6. (intransitive) To be undergoing a chemical or physical process for preservation or use.

7. To preserve (food), typically by salting
8. (intransitive) To solidify or gel.

9. (obsolete, intransitive) To become healed.
10. (obsolete) To pay heed; to care; to give attention.

Derived terms

Translations

Related terms

Anagrams

• crue, cuer, ecru, écru

French

Etymology

From Middle French cure, from Old French cure, from Latin c?ra, from Proto-Indo-European *k?eys- (“to heed”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ky?/
• Rhymes: -y?

Noun

cure f (plural cures)

1. (archaic) care, concern
2. (obsolete) healing, recovery
3. (medicine) treatment; cure
4. (religion) vicarage, presbytery

Derived terms

• n'avoir cure

Related terms

• curer

Verb

cure

1. first-person singular present indicative of curer
2. third-person singular present indicative of curer
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of curer
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of curer
5. second-person singular imperative of curer

Further reading

• “cure” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• crue, crûe, écru, reçu

Friulian

Etymology

From Latin c?ra.

Noun

cure f (plural curis)

1. treatment
2. cure

Related terms

• curâ

Galician

Verb

cure

1. first-person singular present subjunctive of curar
2. third-person singular present subjunctive of curar

Italian

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ure

Noun

cure f

1. plural of cura

Anagrams

• ecru

Middle English

Noun

cure

1. Alternative form of curre

Middle French

Etymology

From Old French cure.

Noun

cure f (plural cures)

1. desire

Descendants

• French: cure

Old French

Etymology

From Latin c?ra.

Noun

cure f (oblique plural cures, nominative singular cure, nominative plural cures)

1. medical attention
2. worry
3. desire

Related terms

• curer

Descendants

References

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (cure)

Portuguese

Verb

cure

1. first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of curar
2. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of curar
3. third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of curar
4. third-person singular (você) negative imperative of curar

Romanian

Etymology

From Latin currere, present active infinitive of curr?, from Proto-Italic *korz?, from Proto-Indo-European *?ers-. Mostly replaced by the modified variant form curge.

Verb

a cure (third-person singular present curge, past participle curs) 3rd conj.

1. (archaic) to run
2. (archaic) to flow
3. (archaic) to drain

Synonyms

• (to run): alerga, fugi
• (to flow): curge
• (to drain): scurge

Related terms

Spanish

Verb

cure

1. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of curar.
2. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of curar.
3. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of curar.