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Hill vs Tor - What's the difference?

hill | tor |

As nouns the difference between hill and tor

is that hill is an elevated location smaller than a mountain while tor is a craggy outcrop of rock on the summit of a hill.

As proper nouns the difference between hill and tor

is that hill is Capitol Hill; the US Congress while Tor is abbreviation of Toronto|lang=en.

As a verb hill

is to form into a heap or mound.

As an adjective tor is

alternative form of lang=en ("hard, difficult; strong; rich").

As an initialism TOR is

Terms of reference

hill

English

(wikipedia hill)

Noun

(en noun)
  • 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.

    • 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

    tor

    English

    (wikipedia tor)

    Etymology 1

    Adjective

    (en-adjective)
  • ("hard, difficult; strong; rich").

    • Etymology 2

    From (etyl) tor, ). It is not clear whether the Celtic forms were borrowed from Old English or vice versa. See also (tower).

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A craggy outcrop of rock on the summit of a hill.
  • (South-West England) A hill.
  • * 1855 , Charles Kingsley, Westward Ho! , Tickor and Fields (1855), pages 104-105:
    • Bursdon and Welsford were then, as now, a rolling range of dreary moors, unbroken by tor or tree, or anything save few and far between a world-old furze-bank which marked the common rights of some distant cattle farm, and crossed then, not as now, by a decent road, but by a rough confused trackway, the remnant of an old Roman road from Clovelly dikes to Launceston.
  • * 1902 , , Chapter 9:
    • The moon was low upon the right, and the jagged pinnacle of a granite tor stood up against the lower curve of its silver disc.
  • * 2008 , Lydia Joyce, Shadows of the Night , Signet Eclipse (2008), ISBN 9780451223425, page 242:
    • She had slipped the letters into her pocket next to the packet of antique documents and had taken an umbrella—as the sky was ominous out over the distant tors —and strolled around the manor house and down the road toward the village.
  • (UK, dialect) A tower; a turret.
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