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Knoll vs Hollow - What's the difference?

knoll | hollow |

As nouns the difference between knoll and hollow

is that knoll is a small mound or rounded hill while hollow is a small valley between mountains; a low spot surrounded by elevations.

As verbs the difference between knoll and hollow

is that knoll is to ring (a bell) mournfully; to knell while hollow is to make a hole in something; to excavate.

As an adjective hollow is

(of something solid) Having an empty space or cavity inside.

As an adverb hollow is

completely, as part of the phrase beat hollow or beat all hollow.

As an interjection hollow is

alternative form of lang=en.

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.

    • hollow

    English

    Alternative forms

    * holler

    Etymology 1

    (etyl) holw, holh, from (etyl) . More at cave.

    Adjective

    (er)
  • (of something solid) Having an empty space or cavity inside.
    • a hollow''' tree; a '''hollow sphere
  • (of a sound) Distant]], eerie; echoing, [[reverberate, reverberating, as if in a hollow space; dull, muffled; often low-pitched.
    • a hollow moan
    (Dryden)
  • (figuratively) Without substance; having no real or significant worth; meaningless.
    • a hollow victory
  • (figuratively) Insincere, devoid of validity; specious.
    • a hollow promise
  • Depressed; concave; gaunt; sunken.
  • * Shakespeare
    • With hollow eye and wrinkled brow.
    Derived terms
    * hollow leg

    Adverb

    (-)
  • (colloquial) Completely, as part of the phrase beat hollow or beat all hollow.

    • Etymology 2

    (etyl) holow, earlier holgh, from (etyl) . See above.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A small valley between mountains; a low spot surrounded by elevations.
  • * Prior
    • Forests grew upon the barren hollows .
  • * Tennyson
    • I hate the dreadful hollow behind the little wood.
    He built himself a cabin in a hollow high up in the Rockies.
  • A sunken area or unfilled space in something solid; a cavity, natural or artificial.
    • the hollow of the hand or of a tree
  • (US) A sunken area.
  • (figuratively) A feeling of emptiness.
    • a hollow in the pit of one's stomach

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • to make a hole in something; to excavate (transitive)

    • Etymology 3

    Compare holler.

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To urge or call by shouting; to hollo.
  • * Sir Walter Scott
    • He has hollowed the hounds.

    Interjection

    (en interjection)
    • (Webster 1913)