Hill vs Hillcrest - What's the difference?
hill | hillcrest |
An elevated location smaller than a mountain.
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*: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.
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(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.
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(label) The pitcher’s mound.
To form into a heap or mound.
To heap or draw earth around plants.
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1000 English basic words
The crest of a hill
*{{quote-book, year=1901, author=Mary Hartwell Catherwood, title=Lazarre, chapter=, edition=
, passage=But all that sunny hillcrest seemed brightened by the marquis. }}
*{{quote-book, year=1917, author=Harold Bindloss, title=Carmen's Messenger, chapter=, edition=
, passage=The light got red and angry as they dipped into the valley; the firs on the hillcrest stood out black and sharp, and then melted into the gray background. }}
* {{quote-news, year=2002, date=November 22, author=Justin Matlick, title=Feeling the Buzz, work=Chicago Reader
, passage=The upper half of her torso is raised and she's looking away from the camera, apparently staring over the hillcrest as if hunting for something amid the foliage or plotting an escape route. }}
As a proper noun hill
is ; the us congress.As a noun hillcrest is
the crest of a hill.hill
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(wikipedia hill)Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* downhill * dunghill * head for the hills * hilly * hilling * hillock * hill of beans * hillside * hill station * king of the hill * over the hill * uphillExternal links
*Verb
(en verb)hillcrest
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