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hillock

How to use hillock in a sentence. Example sentences and definitions for hillock.

Editorial note

>old as the hillsAbout as old as a 166-year-old artificial hillock, yes.

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Quick take

a small natural hill

Meaning at a glance

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noun

a small natural hill

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for hillock.

Example sentences

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>old as the hillsAbout as old as a 166-year-old artificial hillock, yes.

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So many had been killed by nightfall that the mountains became hillocks, and the plain was soaked with the blood of the mighty.

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And when I visited, the kids were going nuts over this little hillock, running up and careening down it, giggling.

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* Conduction delays: Biological neural networks have a delay between when a spike is generated at the axon hillock and when it arrives at the postsynaptic neuron's dendritic arbour.

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Right.> Imagine that someone proposes a high level communications protocol to you which acts like thisIt is very clearly not a gleaming tower of high-level abstraction but a hillock of filth with a little goblin upon it that actually scampers about doing the work.

Frequently asked questions

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How do you use hillock in a sentence?

>old as the hillsAbout as old as a 166-year-old artificial hillock, yes.

What does hillock mean?

a small natural hill

What part of speech is hillock?

hillock is commonly used as noun.