Mountains and Hills

[Ethereal]

My brother (9 years) and I were having a discussion as to whether an imaginary mound he'd created was a hill or mountain. We were unable to decide, so I had a brilliant idea! The dictionary! Unfortunately, the dictionary was no help.

Mountain: a landmass that projects conspicuously above its surroundings and is higher than a hill

So, I was again struck by brilliance! I'll look up the definition of hill!

Hill: a natural elevation of land lower than a mountain

Now isn't that helpful?

Three separate dictionaries had similarly unhelpful definitions.

I was forced, then, to seek the help of my best friend, google. I typed in "define:mountain" (without the ") and finally found a definition stating that a mountain is generally thought of as rising at least 300 meters above its surroundings.

All that work for such a simple explanation....

 

[Y]

whats the question about this whole thing ?
i would just assume that the hill tend to be
smaller than mountains.

How about this:
"make a mole hill out of a mountain" !!

 

[TongueOnFire]

http://www.hyperdictionary.com/dictionary/mountain


http://www.hyperdictionary.com/dictionary/hill



i hope that kinda help ya! i do my best!

TOF

 

[Ethereal]

whats the question about this whole thing?

There technically wasn't a question, I just felt like venting over the stupidity of the dictionary.

http://www.hyperdictionary.com/dictionary/mountain

http://www.hyperdictionary.com/dictionary/hill

i hope that kinda help ya! i do my best!

TOF

Oh, thank you. I'm always looking for a new dictionary website.

 

[TongueOnFire]

also other way you may find that meanings!!

go to http://www.yahoo.com and typing mountain definition or hill definition so it will show up alot meanings .. it over 1,000.. so good luck!




TOF

 

[Y]

and i tend to use this: http://www.dictionary.com

 

[Y]

whats the question about this whole thing ?
i would just assume that the hill tend to be
smaller than mountains.

How about this:
"make a mole hill out of a mountain" !!

Because I'm unable to edit this one,
let me correct myself here... I actually meant:

"make a mountain out of a molehill" ....

 

[deafdyke]

Or how about that movie "The Englishman who Went Up A Hill But Came Down A Mountain"?

 

[Y]

Or how about that movie "The Englishman who Went Up A Hill But Came Down A Mountain"?

sound like an interesting story if u could pls summarize
what is it about ?

 

[Ethereal]

Or how about that movie "The Englishman who Went Up A Hill But Came Down A Mountain"?

I prefer the Englishman who went up the hill and came down with all the bananas.

 

[tekkmortal]

LOL I think the real definition for mountain is anything that is 2,000 feet or more in elevation and for hill is anything that is between 1 to 1,999 feet in elevation.

 

[Ethereal]

The definition I got was a mountain is above 300 meters, which is approximately 985 feet. (If I remember correctly)

 

[tekkmortal]

Geez, but I think Im right sorry to say.

 

[Ethereal]

Wouldn't surprise me if you were.

 

[kuifje75]

SLC is at 4300 feet above sea level, so downtown is a mountain already according to either one of your definitions.

A lot of mountains in Wasatch and Unitas summit at 11,000 to 13,500 feet above the sea level. I think with the 7,000 to 9,000 feet difference of land level, the mountains look quite majestic compared to a hill.

 

[Y]

SLC is at 4300 feet above sea level, so downtown is a mountain already according to either one of your definitions.

A lot of mountains in Wasatch and Unitas summit at 11,000 to 13,500 feet above the sea level. I think with the 7,000 to 9,000 feet difference of land level, the mountains look quite majestic compared to a hill.

do u mean to compare this majestic mountains
with an ant hill, ugh ? LOL