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A knoll is a small, round hill. It is not a mountain, and it is not a sharp peak. Think of a gentle bump in a field or a park, often with grass, sometimes with a few trees on top. The word feels a little like countryside talk or story-book English; in everyday speech people often just say little hill. You meet it in place names, in walks, and in writing about land. It names the shape: low, rounded, easy to climb.
小圓丘、小山崗。不是高山,是圓圓小小的土丘。
組成From Middle English knol, knolle, from Old English cnoll (‘summit’), from Proto-Germanic *knudan-, *knudla-, *knulla- (‘lump’). Related to Dutch knol (tuber), Swedish knöl (tuber), Danish knold (hillock, clod, tuber) and German Knolle (bulb). A possible link to the old word behind knot is not certain.
原始詞典資料8 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
Knollname
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A surname from German
knollnoun詞源 1/nəʊl/
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A small mound or rounded hill.
- grassy knoll
- On knoll or hillock rears his crest, / Lonely and huge, the giant oak.
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geographynatural-sciencesoceanographyA rounded, underwater hill with a prominence of less than 1,000 metres, which does not breach the water's surface.
knollnoun詞源 2/nəʊl/
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A knell.
knollverb詞源 2/nəʊl/
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To ring (a bell) mournfully; to knell.
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To sound (something) like a bell; to knell.
- If ever been where bells have knoll'd to church.
- For a departed being's soul / The death hymn peals, and the hollow bells knoll: [...]
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To call (someone, to church) by sounding or making a knell (as a bell, a trumpet, etc).
- Their office now was to guide the monster choruses and Sunday hymns; and like the trumpets of silver made of a whole piece “for the calling of the assembly, and for the journeying of the camps,” to knoll the people in to church.
- The parishioners were not, however, to be permanently deprived of this means of grace, and for many a year they have been “knolled to church” by the bells of the Town Hall, a comely building […]
knollverb詞源 3/nəʊl/
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To arrange related objects in parallel or at 90 degree angles.
資料來源:英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary(CC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。