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Although the heavily fortified Hill 937 was of little strategic value, U.S. command ordered its capture by a frontal assault. The hill was finally taken at the cost of 72 Americans killed and 372 wounded. Losses on the North Vietnamese side are estimated at more than 630 dead.
This may also be a reference to tautological duplication in many English place names constructed from multiple languages, such as Pendle Hill (hill hill hill), and the anecdotal but apparently incorrect Torpenhow hill (which is alleged to mean hill hill hill hill, but probably doesn't). –
[Noun phrase]: hill to die on (plural hills to die on) (idiomatic usage): An issue to pursue with wholehearted conviction and/or single-minded focus, with little or no regard to the cost. Etymology: an allusion to the military practice of capturing/holding a hill (high ground), no matter the cost or (lack of) benefit, as in the Battle of ...
Neither shallow nor gentle are the opposite of steep, but rather words we make do with because there is no actual word for what we mean; when asked the opposite of gentle or shallow we wouldn't naturally say steep, but harsh or deep respectively.
John D's suggestion of 'summit' is not incorrect, however I would avoid its use when talking about a hill or mountain as you might end up repeating the word (to summit the summit). Instead, I'd recommend the use of the transitive verb surmount with much the same meaning.
Hello, feylyer. Thanks for visiting ELU. The problem with your question is that although Everest is obviously a mountain and Bilbo lived under a hill, the distinction between hills and mountains gets very indistinct for less clear-cut cases, and is country-, region- and general terrain-dependent. –
Although it would seem that going down a hill is easier than going up, downhill has meant a decline since the 1500s, although Daniel Defoe also used it in the sense of easy ("a very short cut, and all down hill," Robinson Crusoe, 1719). An 1856 history of England had the sense of declining: "The monks had traveled swiftly on the downhill road ...
The expression "It's all up hill from here!" and "It's all down hill from here!" mean that things will only get better or things will only get worst. Metaphorically going uphill can provide for a better position, while going down hill is easier. Which expression represents which way?
The OED defines summit, in its topological sense, as ‘the topmost point or ridge of a mountain or hill’. For a peak it gives ‘the pointed top or summit of a mountain; a mountain or hill having a more or less pointed summit, or being conical in form.’ There is a clear difference here: peaks can be summits, but not all summits are peaks.
A mound is a hill that is or appears to have been put there artificially, while a hill represents an elevated location smaller than a mountain. National Park Service. Show an excerpt of the text for a more precise explanation.