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mount
1[ mount ]
verb (used with object)
to mount stairs.
Synonyms:
Antonyms:
- to get up on (a platform, a horse, etc.).
- to set or place at an elevation:
to mount a house on stilts.
- to furnish with a horse or other animal for riding.
- to set or place (a person) on horseback.
- to organize, as an army.
- to prepare and launch, as an attack or a campaign.
- to raise or put into position for use, as a gun.
- (of a fortress or warship) to have or carry (guns) in position for use.
- to go or put on guard, as a sentry or watch.
- to attach to or fix on or in a support, backing, setting, etc.:
to mount a photograph; to mount a diamond in a ring.
- to arrange for display:
to mount a museum exhibit.
- to provide (a play, musical comedy, opera, etc.) with scenery, costumes, and other equipment for production.
- to prepare (an animal body or skeleton) as a specimen.
- (of a male animal) to climb upon (a female) for copulation.
- Microscopy.
- to prepare (a slide) for microscopic investigation.
- to prepare (a sample) for examination by a microscope, as by placing it on a slide.
verb (used without object)
- to increase in amount or intensity (often followed by up ):
The cost of all those small purchases mounts up.
- to get up on the back of a horse or other animal for riding.
- to rise or go to a higher position, level, degree, etc.; ascend:
Synonyms:
- to get up on something, as a platform.
noun
- the act or a manner of mounting.
- a horse, other animal, or sometimes a vehicle, as a bicycle, used, provided, or available for riding.
Synonyms: , , ,
- an act or occasion of riding a horse, especially in a race.
- a support, backing, setting, or the like, on or in which something is, or is to be, mounted or fixed.
- an ornamental metal piece applied to a piece of wooden furniture.
- Microscopy. a prepared slide.
- a distinctive metal feature on a sheath or scabbard, as a locket or chape.
- Philately. hinge ( def 4 ).
- Printing. a wooden or metal block to which a plate is secured for printing.
mount
2[ mount ]
noun
- a mountain: often used as part of a placename.
mount
1/ ʊԳ /
verb
- to go up (a hill, stairs, etc); climb
- to get up on (a horse, a platform, etc)
- introften foll byup io increase; accumulate
excitement mounted
- tr to fix onto a backing, setting, or support
to mount a photograph
to mount a slide
- tr to provide with a horse for riding, or to place on a horse
- (of male animals) to climb onto (a female animal) for copulation
- tr to prepare (a play, musical comedy, etc) for production
- tr to plan and organize (a compaign, an exhibition, etc)
- tr military to prepare or launch (an operation)
the Allies mounted an offensive
- tr to prepare (a skeleton, dead animal, etc) for exhibition as a specimen
- tr to place or carry (weapons) in such a position that they can be fired
- mount guardSee guard
noun
- a backing, setting, or support onto which something is fixed
- the act or manner of mounting
- a horse for riding
- a slide used in microscopy
- philately
- a small transparent pocket in an album for a postage stamp
- another word for hinge
mount
2/ ʊԳ /
noun
- a mountain or hill: used in literature and (when cap.) in proper names
Mount Everest
- (in palmistry) any of the seven cushions of flesh on the palm of the hand
Derived Forms
- ˈdzܲԳٱ, noun
- ˈdzܲԳٲ, adjective
Other Word Forms
- dzܲԳa· adjective
- dzܲԳl adjective
- un·dzܲԳa· adjective
Word History and Origins
Origin of mount1
Origin of mount2
Word History and Origins
Origin of mount1
Origin of mount2
Synonym Study
Example Sentences
Last year an inquest found the atrocity, in Kingsmills, was an overtly sectarian attack mounted by the IRA.
That explains another frontal attack on Medicaid mounted by the GOP: the imposition of work requirements on Medicaid enrollees.
And there is no secret that Ferrari were expecting to start the season in a competitive position and mount a title challenge from the off.
Those plans include scrapping the Royal Parks police and Safer Schools officers, along with cuts to forensics and mounted police, and potentially taking firearms off the Flying Squad.
Trains were cancelled and evacuated in some regions, and traffic lights stopped working as delays mounted at airports.
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