What's the difference between dune and mound?

Dune


Definition:

  • (n.) A low hill of drifting sand usually formed on the coats, but often carried far inland by the prevailing winds.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) We have developed the DUNE (Diagnostic Understanding of Natural Events) system architecture that organizes the knowledge around processing structures.
  • (2) Israeli media reports said the rocket came down near an amusement park in sand dunes on the edge of the city.
  • (3) I will sometimes make my way there by bicycle and spend the night sleeping on dunes under the stars.
  • (4) At Pelican Island, a 2.5 mile strip in the Barataria Bay, crews used 2.5m cubic yards of sand and silt mined from the Gulf of Mexico to build dunes and marshes, and rolled out protective fences around newly planted grasses.
  • (5) Enjoy riding through the natural beauty of pine forests and open heathland, before taking the Sand Worm (a tractor-trailer ride) across vast sand dunes to the colliding waves of the North and Baltic seas.
  • (6) To our right, four miles of wide clean beach, fringed by bumpy low sand dunes sprouted here and there with couch grass, flowering creepers and low bushes.
  • (7) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Donald Trump on the sand dunes of the Menie estate.
  • (8) In this paper, we discuss the general specifications for a program that can aid psychiatric diagnoses, and then describe DUNE and its capabilities.
  • (9) The region boasts some of the world's highest dunes, with gazelles among the wildlife.
  • (10) Open 5 April- 30 September, camping from €18.20 a night for two, cabins from €51 a night for five Camping Le Pin Sec, Naujac-sur-Mer, near Bordeaux Amid pine forests and dunes just 50 metres from the sea, is a pop-up camp where surfers can stay in tipis with beds, carpets and electricity.
  • (11) It is one of the most beautiful beaches in Brazil, and backed by Atlantic rainforest, with dunes, sandbanks, a lake and rocky coastline.
  • (12) In between come the honky-tonk towns of Texas, the cactus-studded desert of New Mexico and Arizona, and the dunes and mountain passes of California.
  • (13) For example, dune fires broke out in the coastal parts of the Netherlands at the start of May .
  • (14) The path runs through a wild and protected area of dunes, woodland and heathlands with views of the islands in the Gulf of Morbihan.
  • (15) There is something of the sea cave and the sand dune about them.
  • (16) I was with a group of friends in the Namib desert, which has the largest sand dune in the world.
  • (17) The tombs nestle in the dunes below the Red Pyramid, considered the pharaohs' first successful attempt at a smooth-sided structure.
  • (18) The planning inspectors ruled that the damage to the dunes was outweighed by the resort's substantial value to the economy - a judgment challenged by the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds.
  • (19) River water after dune infiltration or pure dune water, collected in closed systems, as well as aerobic or anaerobic groundwater, were usually free of Aeromonas in 100 ml.
  • (20) Oregon Dunes does a great job of keeping the quieter foot-traffic-only areas separate from the motorised off-highway vehicle areas.

Mound


Definition:

  • (n.) A ball or globe forming part of the regalia of an emperor or other sovereign. It is encircled with bands, enriched with precious stones, and surmounted with a cross; -- called also globe.
  • (n.) An artificial hill or elevation of earth; a raised bank; an embarkment thrown up for defense; a bulwark; a rampart; also, a natural elevation appearing as if thrown up artificially; a regular and isolated hill, hillock, or knoll.
  • (v. t.) To fortify or inclose with a mound.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Stonehenge stood at the heart of a sprawling landscape of chapels, burial mounds, massive pits and ritual shrines, according to an unprecedented survey of the ancient grounds.
  • (2) For miles, only the strip of land for the track is dug up, but in places the footprint is much wider: access routes for work vehicles; holding areas for excavated earth; new electricity substations; mounds of ballast prepared for the day when quarries cannot keep pace with the demands of the construction; extra lines for the trains that will lay the track.
  • (3) In reduction mammaplasty by the inferior pedicle technique, the dermal-breast pedicle can be manipulated to form a central breast mound and enhance breast projection.
  • (4) We’re sacrificing our gold medal to help people in need,” said Thomas Glückselig, lugging a mound of bedding.
  • (5) A tongue-shaped flap of the fat and the anterior sheath of the rectus abdominis muscle, approximately 7 cm in length, is pulled up, gathered, and inserted to reconstruct the breast mound.
  • (6) With the exception of poor Jose Valverde, the Tigers pitching recovered in Game Two once that Verlander guy was out of the way, and so at least that side of the game seems to be in a better place for Detroit, especially with the Animal, Anibal Sanchez on the mound tonight.
  • (7) Next to the pupil there was often a perceptible mound, presumably representing the iris sphincter.
  • (8) Sperm were not transported into the cloacae of artificially inseminated, anesthetized females without prior administration of norepinephrine to their cloacal mounds.
  • (9) Treated areas become covered with irregular mounds of RPE cells within seven days.
  • (10) Conservatively, I’d estimate that 90% of my time was spent making my students do colouring in while I sat in an impossibly tiny chair, with my knees around my ears, silently dreading the inedible mound of uncategorised meat that would invariably pass for that day’s lunch.
  • (11) The tying run is coming to the plate and a new pitcher is coming to the mound... Jon Smalldon (@jonsmalldon) Brandon Crawford!
  • (12) Reconstruction of the breast after super-radical mastectomy is difficult because not only a breast mound but also the subclavicular and anterior axillary regions must be reconstructed simultaneously.
  • (13) Individual cysts were found to be lined by a single layer of epithelial cells in most areas, with focal polyps and mounds of cells principally in collecting duct cysts.
  • (14) Each mound with its own tableau of what once were laughing, dreaming, busy human beings.
  • (15) Sox on the Beach (@SoxontheBeach) Also, why are the A's fans behind home plate waving towels when THEIR pitcher is in the mound?
  • (16) In contrast, the flat-mound and translucent-mound mutants, which aggregate normally, produced very few spores.
  • (17) Scanning electron microscopy revealed small mound-like lesions protruding from an intact endothelium in birds treated with an initiating dose of 7,12-dimethylbenz[a]anthracene (Me2BA) followed by twice weekly injections of the alpha 1-selective adrenergic agonist methoxamine for 20 weeks.
  • (18) Breast reconstruction has become such a commonplace procedure over the last ten years that we as plastic surgeons are no longer content to simply create a mound.
  • (19) Ferguson's selection of the "chosen one" now looks less like John the Baptist heralding Christ and more like what I would do if invited to select my ex's next partner; the mendacious dispatch of a castrated chump to grimly jiggle with futile pumps upon Man United's bone-dry, trophy-bare mound.
  • (20) The argon laser caused a gradual mounding up of iris pigment epithelium with each successive energy application before final penetration.