hillock

Converse of object

• know: He chose as the center of his kingdom a site on a hillock known as Dunadd.
• climb: I climbed a little hillock nearby and saw to my delight a herd of horses grazing on the grassy plain.
• surround: A massive bombardment from our heavy artillery began to pound the surrounding hillocks occupied by the Fascists.
• call: Where the axon leaves the cell body of a neuron is an area called the axon hillock.
• find: In the stuff swamp, this is akin to finding a hillock and staying there.

Preposition: on

• side: The hillock on the west side is used by solitary bees; nearby a pond leads off the brook.

Adjective modifier

• small: On the top of a small hillock near the center of the bay is a small circular cairn 36 feet in diameter.
• natural: It was built on a natural rocky hillock by Lord Mountjoy to secure the ancient route from Ulster.
• little: In the distance, little snow cloud hillocks rise.
• grassy: They were to be met with in grassy hillocks, the ancient burial mounds of that people.
• green: The triangular depression is reached by one of those little green hillocks so often to be found on English waysides.
• low: From outside, the building, which is perched on a low hillock, is completely inscrutable.

Modifies a noun

• slope: To numerically assess hillock slopes, topographic and higher resolution techniques were required.
• growth: A void forms to relieve tensile stresses, whilst hillock growth relieves compressive stresses.

Noun used with modifier

• axon: Where the axon leaves the cell body of a neuron is an area called the axon hillock.

Preposition: in

• stuff: Instead of seeking patterns within existing data, CoFIND imposes new ones, making new hillocks in the stuff swamp.

Preposition: of

• earth: As you look around you might also see rounded hillocks of earth which are now overgrown with vegetation.
• waste: Stroll on along the clear rough path and continue where it passes through large hillocks of waste from earlier slate quarrying.