different between hill vs hammock

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

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish hamaca, from Taíno *hamaka (compare Arawak hamaka, Wayuu jama'a), from Proto-Arawak *hamaka. Columbus, in the narrative of his first voyage, says: “A great many Indians in canoes came to the ship to-day for the purpose of bartering their cotton, and hamacas, or nets, in which they sleep.”

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?hæm?k/

Noun

hammock (plural hammocks)

1. A swinging couch or bed, usually made of netting or canvas about six feet wide, suspended by clews or cords at the ends.
   • 1638 Herbert, Sir Thomas Some years travels into divers parts of Asia and Afrique

     ...the poore ?aylers, who...commonly get forthwith into their beds (or hamackoes) re?ting their tyred bodies...

2. (US, archaic outside dialects) A piece of land thickly wooded, and usually covered with bushes and vines.

Derived terms

• hammock nettings

Translations

Verb

hammock (third-person singular simple present hammocks, present participle hammocking, simple past and past participle hammocked)

1. (intransitive) To lie in a hammock.
   • 1901, Yone Noguchi, The American Diary of a Japanese Girl (wiki article)

     "I fancied that we — I and who? — hammocked among the summer breezes."

2. (transitive, of a cloth) To hang in a way that resembles a hammock.
   • 2013, Mary Jo Putney, Patricia Rice, Susan King, Christmas Roses: Love Blooms in Winter

     "She hammocked their plaids between the table and the bed, then edged her way past Kenneth as she approached the central hearth."

3. (transitive) To make something be wrapped tight, like in a hammock.
   • 1960, John D. MacDonald, The Only Girl in the Game

     "She hammocked her breasts into her bra, snapped it, hitched at it, and gave herself a profile glance in the mirror."

Further reading

• hammock on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Swedish

Noun

hammock c

1. hammock

Declension