knoll

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /nəʊl/|/nɒl/    美 /noʊl/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A small mound or rounded hill.
    — grassy knoll
  2. A knell.
  3. A rounded, underwater hill with a prominence of less than 1,000 metres, which does not breach the water's surface.
动词 v.
  1. To ring (a bell) mournfully; to knell. transitive
  2. To arrange related objects in parallel or at 90 degree angles.
  3. To sound (something) like a bell; to knell. ambitransitive
    — If ever been where bells have knoll'd to church.
  4. To call (someone, to church) by sounding or making a knell (as a bell, a trumpet, etc). transitive
    — Their office now was to guide the monster choruses and Sunday hymns; and like the trumpets of silver made of a whole piece “for the calling of the assembly, and for the journeying of the camps,” to knoll the people in to church.

词形变化

knolls plural knolls plural knolls present,singular,third-person knolling participle,present knolled participle,past knolled past knolls present,singular,third-person knolling participle,present knolled participle,past knolled past

词汇关系

衍生词
Brent Knoll knoller knolly Maryknoller microknoll Oak Knoll reef knoll
相关词
dale hill rill

词源

词源 1
From Middle English knol, knolle, from Old English cnoll (“summit”), from Proto-Germanic *knudan-, *knudla-, *knulla- (“lump”), possibly related to cnotta.
Related to Old Norse knollr (found only in names of places), Dutch knol (“tuber”), Swedish knöl (“tuber”), Danish knold (“hillock, clod, tuber”) and German Knolle (“bulb”).
词源 2
Imitative, or variant of knell.
词源 3
Named after Knoll, a furniture fabrication shop, famous for its angular range of designer furniture.
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