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Embankment vs Knoll - What's the difference?

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Embankment is a related term of knoll.


As nouns the difference between embankment and knoll

is that embankment is a long artificial mound of earth and stone, built to hold back water, for protection or to support a road while knoll is bulb.

embankment

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • a long artificial mound of earth and stone, built to hold back water, for protection or to support a road

    • Related terms

    * Victoria Embankment

    knoll

    English

    Etymology 1

    (etyl)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A small mound or rounded hill.
  • * Sir Walter Scott
    • On knoll or hillock rears his crest, / Lonely and huge, the giant oak.

    Etymology 2

    Imitative, or variant of (knell).

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A knell.

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To ring (a bell) mournfully; to knell.
  • To sound, like a bell; to knell.
  • * Shakespeare, "As you like it", Act II, scene VII, 114
    • If ever been where bells have knoll´d to church.
  • * Byron
    • For a departed being's soul / The death hymn peals, and the hollow bells knoll .
  • * Tennyson
    • Heavy clocks knolling the drowsy hours.

    Etymology 3

    Named after Knoll, a furniture fabrication shop, famous for its angular range of designer furniture.

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To arrange related objects in parallel or at 90 degree angles.