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Adobe vs Hill - What's the difference?

adobe | hill |

As a verb adobe

is .

As a proper noun hill is

; the us congress.

adobe

English

(wikipedia adobe)

Noun

(en-noun)
  • An unburnt brick dried in the sun.
    • Many people in Texas and New Mexico live in adobe houses.
  • * (rfdate) O’Henry, Cabbages and Kings
    • Stone sidewalks, little more than a ledge in width, ran along the base of the mean and monotonous adobe houses.
  • * (rfdate) O’Henry, Roads of Destiny
    • “Find me a nice, clean adobe wall,” says he, “and send Senor Rompiro up against it.”
  • * (rfdate) Star Wars script
    • The Jawas mutter gibberish as they busily line up their battered captives, including Artoo and Threepio, in front of the enormous Sandcrawler, which is parked beside a small homestead consisting of three large holes in the ground surrounded by several tall moisture vaporators and one small adobe block house.
  • * 26 May 2003 , Roger Angell, in The New Yorker ,
    • The Sangre de Cristos came into view and the first soft-cornered adobe houses, and that night we ate at La Fonda with my Aunt Elsie, who worked for the Indian Bureau, and had Hopi snake dances and San Ildefonso pottery-makers and Mabel Dodge Luhan in store for us in the coming weeks.
  • A house made of adobe brick.
  • * {{quote-news, 2007, March 11, Ralph Blumenthal, Prosecutor’s Ouster Shifts Political Order, New York Times citation
    • , passage=The snow-dusted mesas and million-dollar adobes look enchanting as ever

    Synonyms

    * mudbrick (definition 1)

    Anagrams

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    References

    * adobe, Online Etymology Dictionary English terms derived from Arabic English terms derived from Spanish ----

    hill

    English

    (wikipedia hill)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An elevated location 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.
  • A sloping road.
  • :
  • (label) A heap of earth surrounding a plant.
  • (label) A single cluster or group of plants growing close together, and having the earth heaped up about them.
  • :
  • (label) The pitcher’s mound.

    • Derived terms

    * downhill * dunghill * head for the hills * hilly * hilling * hillock * hill of beans * hillside * hill station * king of the hill * over the hill * uphill

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    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To form into a heap or mound.
  • To heap or draw earth around plants.
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    • 1000 English basic words