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41hill — /hIl/ noun (C) 1 an area of land that is higher than the land around it, like a mountain but smaller 2 a slope on a road: There s a steep hill ahead get into low gear. 3 on the Hill AmE on capitol hill or in the US government 4 over the hill no… …
42Hill 60 — /hɪl ˈsɪksti/ (say hil sikstee) noun 1. the name given to a low hill located between Anzac Cove and Suvla Bay at Gallipoli which was significant in fighting between Australian and Turkish forces in the August Offensive in 1915. 2. the name given… …
43Hill — /hil/, n. 1. Ambrose Powell /pow euhl/, 1825 65, Confederate general in the U.S. Civil War. 2. Archibald Vivian /viv ee euhn/, 1886 1977, English physiologist: Nobel prize for medicine 1922. 3. James Jerome, 1838 1916, U.S. railroad builder and… …
44Hill, A.V. — ▪ British physiologist and biophysicist in full Archibald Vivian Hill born Sept. 26, 1886, Bristol, Gloucestershire, Eng. died June 3, 1977, Cambridge British physiologist and biophysicist who received (with Otto Meyerhof (Meyerhof, Otto)) the …
45hill — A generic term for an elevated area of the land surface, rising at least 30 m (100 ft.) to as much as 300 meters (approx. 1000 ft.) above surrounding lowlands, usually with a nominal summit area relative to bounding slopes, a well defined,… …
46hill — /hɪl / (say hil) noun 1. a conspicuous natural elevation of the earth s surface, smaller than a mountain. 2. an artificial heap or pile: a hill of beans. 3. a little heap of earth raised about a cultivated plant or a cluster of such plants. –verb …
47Hill — This distinguished surname, with over fifty entries in the Dictionary of National Biography , and having no less than seventy five Coats of Arms, is of Olde English pre 7th century derivation. It has two completely distinct possible origins. The… …
48hill — [OE] The ultimate source of hill was Indo European *kel , *kol , which denoted ‘height’ and also produced English column, culminate, and excellent. A derivative *kulnís produced Germanic *khulniz, which now has no surviving descendants apart from …
49hill — [[t]hɪ̱l[/t]] ♦♦♦ hills 1) N COUNT: oft in names A hill is an area of land that is higher than the land that surrounds it. ...the shady street that led up the hill to the office building. ...the Black Hills of Dakota. 2) PHRASE: usu v link PHR… …
50hill — [OE] The ultimate source of hill was Indo European *kel , *kol , which denoted ‘height’ and also produced English column, culminate, and excellent. A derivative *kulnís produced Germanic *khulniz, which now has no surviving descendants apart from …
