How do you use Hillock in a sentence? See 10+ example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, including synonyms like knoll or mound, plus the exact meaning.
Hillock meaning
A small hill.
Using Hillock
- The main meaning on this page is: A small hill.
- Useful related words include: knoll, mound, hummock, hammock.
- In the example corpus, hillock often appears in combinations such as: axon hillock, hillock which, hillock is.
Context around Hillock
- Average sentence length in these examples: 26.7 words
- Position in the sentence: 1 start, 10 middle, 5 end
- Sentence types: 16 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Hillock
- In this selection, "hillock" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 26.7 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, axon, carol, small, resembling, modi and releasing stand out and add context to how "hillock" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include an internal hillock is roughly and and axon hillock are generally. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "hillock" sits close to words such as aav, abdicating and abductor, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with hillock
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
The volume, including an internal hillock, is roughly convert. (9 words)
It is built on the top of a hillock resembling the back of a turtle. (15 words)
A neighbourhood near Turbhe station, close to a hillock, is now home to the sex workers. (16 words)
An axon (also called a nerve fiber when myelinated ) is a special cellular extension (process) that arises from the cell body at a site called the axon hillock and travels for a distance, as far as 1 meter in humans or even more in other species. (46 words)
The notice was issued after a Powai-based activist, Rajendra Tiwari, wrote to the department in February 2019, seeking an inquiry into the clearances that the builder has received to carry out construction work on the hillock, which has a green cover. (42 words)
Where the great pyramid of earth, surmounted by the lion, rises to-day, there was a hillock which descended in an easy slope towards the Nivelles road, but which was almost an escarpment on the side of the highway to Genappe. (41 words)
Example sentences (16)
As we bid farewell to Lynne Carol Hillock, we celebrate her life legacy, and the undeniable mark she leaves on her family and community.
The path continues for a further mile, dropping steadily apart from one small hillock before arriving at some trees.
It is built on the top of a hillock resembling the back of a turtle.
The notice was issued after a Powai-based activist, Rajendra Tiwari, wrote to the department in February 2019, seeking an inquiry into the clearances that the builder has received to carry out construction work on the hillock, which has a green cover.
A neighbourhood near Turbhe station, close to a hillock, is now home to the sex workers.
At the site of Krishna’s butterball, a gigantic granite boulder sitting firmly on the slope of a hillock, Modi held Xi’s hands, reflecting warmth in their personal chemistry.
The 270-km all-weather road, connecting Kashmir to the rest of India, was shut on Wednesday after a landslide sent stones hurling down a hillock in Banihal’s Gangroo area.
An axon (also called a nerve fiber when myelinated ) is a special cellular extension (process) that arises from the cell body at a site called the axon hillock and travels for a distance, as far as 1 meter in humans or even more in other species.
Gravett Hastings p. 68 The duke then led a counter-attack against the pursuing English forces; some of the English rallied on a hillock before being overwhelmed.
If the cell body is normally in an inhibited state, the only way to generate an action potential at the axon hillock is to reduce the cell body’s inhibition.
If the message is to be stopped, it is best stopped by applying inhibition on the cell body, close to the axon hillock where the action potential originates.
That is to say, it will create a new action potential at its axon hillock, releasing neurotransmitters and passing on the information to yet another neighboring neuron.
The Bayeux Tapestry depicts the death of Harold's brothers Gyrth and Leofwine occurring just before the fight around the hillock.
The volume, including an internal hillock, is roughly convert.
Where the great pyramid of earth, surmounted by the lion, rises to-day, there was a hillock which descended in an easy slope towards the Nivelles road, but which was almost an escarpment on the side of the highway to Genappe.
While the axon and axon hillock are generally involved in information outflow, this region can also receive input from other neurons.
Common combinations with hillock
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- axon hillock 5×
- hillock which 3×
- hillock is 3×
- hillock before 2×
- of hillock 2×
- the hillock 2×