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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | high land area |
| Synonyms: | bluff, cape, cliff, foreland, ness, peak, promontory, ridge, spit, strip |
| Main Entry: | cape |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | promontory into water |
| Synonyms: | arm, beak, bill, chersonese, finger, foreland, head, headland, jetty, jutty, mole, naze, neck, ness, peninsula, point, tongue |
| Main Entry: | hill |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | uprising of earth's surface; pile |
| Synonyms: | acclivity, ascent, bluff, butte, cliff, climb, down, drift, dune, elevation, eminence, esker, fell, gradient, headland, heap, height, highland, hillock, hillside, hilltop, hummock, inclination, incline, knoll, mesa, mound, mount, precipice, prominence, promontory, protuberance, range, ridge, rise, rising ground, shock, slope, stack, summit, talus, tor, upland |
| Antonyms: | canyon, ditch, gulley |
| Main Entry: | hillock |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | small hill |
| Synonyms: | acclivity, ascent, bluff, butte, cliff, drift, dune, elevation, esker, headland, heap, highland, hilltop, hummock, inclination, incline, knoll, mesa, mound, mount, precipice, prominence, promontory, ridge, rise, slope, summit |
| Main Entry: | knoll |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | small hill |
| Synonyms: | acclivity, ascent, bluff, butte, cliff, drift, dune, elevation, esker, headland, heap, highland, hillock, hilltop, hummock, inclination, incline, knoll, mesa, mound, mount, precipice, prominence, promontory, ridge, rise, slope, summit |
| Main Entry: | point |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | sharp end, top, end of extension |
| Synonyms: | apex, awn, barb, beak, bill, cape, claw, cusp, dagger, foreland, head, headland, jag, nib, pin point, prick, prickler, promontory, prong, snag, spike, spine, spire, spur, sticker, stiletto, summit, sword, thorn, tine, tip, tooth |
| Notes: | the stylus, or point, of a record player is held by the cartridge; the base of the turntable is called the deck |
| Antonyms: | bluntness, dullness |
| Main Entry: | prominence |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | something that sticks out |
| Synonyms: | bulge, bump, cliff, conspicuity, conspicuousness, crag, crest, elevation, eminence, headland, height, high point, jutting, markedness, mound, pinnacle, projection, promontory, protrusion, protuberance, rise, spur, swelling, tor |
| Antonyms: | depression |
| Main Entry: | peninsula |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | projecting mass of land |
| Synonyms: | cape, chersonese, headland, neck, point |
| Main Entry: | mucro |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | point |
| Synonyms: | acicula, acumination, apex, awn, barb, beak, bill, cape, claw, cusp, dagger, foreland, head, headland, jag, mucronation, nib, pin point, prick, prickler, promontory, prong, snag, spike, spine, spire, spur, sticker, stiletto, summit, sword, thorn, tine, tip, tooth |
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