different between moraine vs hill

English

Etymology

From French moraine, from Savoyard Italian morena, from Franco-Provençal mor, morre (“muzzle, snout”), from Vulgar Latin *murrum. Compare morion.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /m???e?n/, /m???e?n/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /m???e?n/
• Rhymes: -e?n
• Hyphenation: mo?raine

Noun

moraine (plural moraines)

1. (geology) An accumulation of rocks and debris carried and deposited by a glacier.
   • 1896, James Edward Todd, The Moraines of the Missouri Coteau, and Their Attendant Deposits, US Geological Survey, Bulletin No. 144, page 47,

     This fact is suggestive in connection with the question whether the moraines mark different epochs of the ice age or different stages in the recession of the ice of one epoch.

     This moraine, like the previous ones, influenced the drainage of the country. Several streams have evidently been located or directed by the influence of this moraine.

   • 1959, Robert David Miller, Ernest Dobrovolny, Surficial Geology of Anchorage and Vicinity, Alaska, US Geological Survey, Bulletin No. 1093, page 61,

     Whether this advance beyond the Elmendorf Moraine is a pre-Naptowne Wisconsin or is merely a fluctuation of the Naptowne glacier that deposited the end moraine is unclear.

   • 1997, Robert Phillip Sharp, Allen F. Glazner, Geology Underfoot in Death Valley and Owens Valley, Mountain Press Publishing, page 241,

     Moraines that originate along the lateral margins of an ice stream are naturally called lateral moraines. Many lateral moraines perch high on the walls of glaciated valleys.

Derived terms

• ground moraine (“moraine found at the base of a glacier”)
• lateral moraine (“moraine of eroded debris carried along the glacier’s edge”)
• medial moraine (“moraine where two glaciers meet”)
• push moraine, pushed moraine (“moraine of unstratified glacial sediment pushed by the terminus of a lowland glacier into a pile or linear ridge”)
• terminal moraine, end moraine (“moraine of rubble dropped at the foot of a melting glacier”)

Translations

Anagrams

• moanier, romaine

French

Etymology

From Savoyard Italian morena, from Franco-Provençal mor, morre (“muzzle, snout”), from Vulgar Latin *murrum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /m?.??n/

Noun

moraine f (plural moraines)

1. moraine

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• romaine, Romaine

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