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  (mount) pronunciation

v., mount·ed, mount·ing, mounts.

v.tr.
  1. To climb or ascend: mount stairs.
  2. To place oneself upon; get up on: mount a horse; mount a platform.
  3. To climb onto (a female) for copulation. Used of male animals.
    1. To furnish with a horse for riding.
    2. To set on a horse: mount the saddle.
  4. To set in a raised position: mount a bed on blocks.
    1. To fix securely to a support: mount an engine in a car.
    2. To place or fix on or in the appropriate support or setting for display or study: mount stamps in an album; mount cells on a slide.
  5. To provide with scenery, costumes, and other equipment necessary for production: mount a play.
  6. To organize and equip: mount an army.
  7. To prepare and set in motion: mount an attack.
    1. To set in position for use: mount guns.
    2. To carry as equipment: The warship mounted ten guns.
  8. To post (a guard).
v.intr.
  1. To go upward; rise.
  2. To get up on something, as a horse or bicycle.
  3. To increase in amount, extent, or intensity: Costs are mounting up. Fear quickly mounted. See synonyms at rise.
n.
  1. The act or manner of mounting.
  2. A means of conveyance, such as a horse, on which to ride.
  3. An opportunity to ride a horse in a race.
  4. An object to which another is affixed or on which another is placed for accessibility, display, or use, especially:
    1. A glass slide for use with a microscope.
    2. A hinge used to fasten stamps in an album.
    3. A setting for a jewel.
    4. An undercarriage or stand on which a device rests while in service.

[Middle English mounten, from Old French monter, from Vulgar Latin *montāre, from Latin mōns, mont-, mountain.]

mountable mount'a·ble adj.
mounter mount'er n.
mount2 (mount) pronunciation
n.
  1. (Abbr. Mt.) A mountain or hill. Used especially as part of a proper name.
  2. Any of the seven fleshy cushions around the edges of the palm of the hand in palmistry.

[Middle English mont, from Old English munt and from Old French mont, munt, both from Latin mōns, mont-.]


 
 
Thesaurus: mount

verb

  1. To move upward on or along: ascend, climb, go up, scale2. See rise/fall.
  2. To move from a lower to a higher position: arise, ascend, climb, lift, rise, soar. See rise/fall.
  3. To make or become greater or larger: aggrandize, amplify, augment, boost, build, build up, burgeon, enlarge, escalate, expand, extend, grow, increase, magnify, multiply, proliferate, rise, run up, snowball, soar, swell, upsurge, wax. Informal beef up. See increase/decrease.
  4. To attain a higher status, rank, or condition: advance, ascend, climb, rise. Idioms: go up the ladder. See increase/decrease, rise/fall.

 
Antonyms: mount

v

Definition: affix, frame
Antonyms: dismount, unfix

v

Definition: climb
Antonyms: alight, descend, dismount, fall

v

Definition: increase, grow
Antonyms: decline, decrease, drop, fall, slump, subside


 

n

The laboratory procedure of attaching the maxillary or mandibular cast to an articulator or similar instrument.

 

v. 1. (often be mounted) set (someone) on horseback; provide with a horse: she was mounted on a white horse.

2. establish; set up: security forces mounted checkpoints at every key road.

3. grow larger or more numerous: casualties mounted as the siege wore one.

4. place (a gun) on a fixed mounting.

n.

1. a support for a gun, camera, or similar piece of equipment.

2. a horse being ridden or that is available for riding: he hung on to his mount's bridle.

mount guard keep watch, especially for protection or to prevent escape.

mountable adj. mounter n.

See the Introduction, Abbreviations and Pronunciation for further details.

 

[Co]

A mound constructed as a viewing platform within part of a garden, or in order to overlook a garden, in the 16th or 17th century ad.

 

1. to prepare specimens and slides for study.
2. a preparatory step to mating in animals.

 
Word Tutor: mount
pronunciation

IN BRIEF: A horse that is ridden. Also: To arrange for display. Also: To climb or ascend.

pronunciation Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount. — Clare Boothe Luce (1903-1987).

 
Wikipedia: mount (disambiguation)


The word mount (from the Latin mons, mountain or hill) has many meanings:

  • Mount may be short for mountain; this is the origin of names such as Mount Ararat
  • A mount is a riding animal, i.e. a (usually domesticated) animal intending for riding—an equine such as horse, camel, elephant or garuda; to mount means to sit astride such an animal
  • To mount is to climb or to stand atop something; in this sense, it can also refer euphemistically to copulation, especially between animals
  • Mounting, in taxidermy, is the preparation of dead animals for display
  • Mounting, to a guitarist means to support the instrument with the leg, as opposed to a strap or sitting
  • Mounting, in graphic arts, is attaching an item such a print to a heavy backing such as foamcore
  • A mount is a point to which additional equipment, such as a weapon, camera, winch or telescope can be attached to a fixed point or to a vehicle so that the operator need not support nor stabilise the equipment; see also gun turret, hard point
  • A mount (grappling), is a favorable position where a combatant sits astride the adversary's chest
  • A mount in gymnastics is the maneuver of going from the ground onto a gymnastic apparatus, such as the balance beam or parallel bars
  • Mount, a Unix system utility to make a file system accessible at a certain point in the directory tree
  • Mount (streaming) Points are also used in streaming software systems
  • The Mount (Lenox, Massachusetts) is the name of Edith Wharton's home in the Berkshires

For people named Mount, see Mount (surname)


 
Translations: Translations for: Mount

Dansk (Danish)
1.
v. tr. - klatre op ad, gå op ad, bestige, bevæge sig opad, hjælpe i sadlen
v. intr. - stige til hest, stige op
n. - (foran navn) bjerg (f.eks. Mount Everest)

idioms:

  • mount up    stige, vokse

2.
n. - karton osv. (til opklæbning), passepartout

Nederlands (Dutch)
opstappen, aanbrengen, uitstallen, op touw zetten, berg, voorwerp om iets op tentoon te stellen, ros, rijdier

Français (French)
1.
v. tr. - gravir, monter sur (une estrade), enfourcher (une bicyclette), monter (un bijou), coller (un timbre), monter (une exposition), mettre (qch) en position (un fusil), (Aut, Tech) installer (un moteur, un dispositif), monter (une production), organiser (une manifestation), (Mil) monter (une attaque), (Fin) lancer, (Zool) monter, (Équit) monter
v. intr. - monter (jusqu'à) (au sang), monter (les prix), grandir (les soucis), augmenter (un chiffre), (Équit) se mettre en selle
n. - monture (de cheval), monture (d'un bijou, de verres), cadre de montage, cadre d'une diapositive

idioms:

  • mount up    accumuler

2.
n. - mont, colline

Deutsch (German)
1.
v. - aufsteigen, besteigen, inszenieren, organisieren, aufsitzen, bespringen, montieren, präparieren
n. - Reittier, Passepartout, Unterlage, Fassung

idioms:

  • mount up    steigen

2.
n. - Berg, Hügel

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - βουνό, όρος, άλογο ιππασίας, κορνίζα, σκελετός, δέσιμο (πετραδιού)
v. - ανεβαίνω, ανέρχομαι, αυξάνω, ανεβάζω, τοποθετώ επάνω, καβαλικεύω, ιππεύω, ανεβάζω (έργο, έκθεση κ.λπ.), κορνιζάρω, πλαισιώνω, στήνω, δένω (πετράδι), συναρμολογώ, μοντάρω, οργανώνω (επίθεση)

idioms:

  • mount up    αυξάνομαι, συσσωρεύομαι, ανέρχομαι, ανεβαίνω

Italiano (Italian)
montare, scalare, aumentare, installare, cavalcatura

idioms:

  • mount up    aumentare, ammontare

Português (Portuguese)
n. - monte (f), montaria (f), encaixe (m)
v. - ornamentar, montar, adaptar

idioms:

  • mount up    escalar

Русский (Russian)
взбираться, устанавливать, возрастать, садиться на лошадь, гора, оправа, установка, лошадь под седлом

idioms:

  • mount up    взбираться, возрастать

Español (Spanish)
1.
v. tr. - subir, montar a caballo, escalar, subir a, aumentar, montar en, cubrir, colocar, instalar, armar
v. intr. - subir, ascender, elevarse, remontarse, aumentar, montarse, subirse
n. - corcel, caballo, montura

idioms:

  • mount up    irse acumulando, subir

2.
n. - monte, montaña

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - berg, kartong, ridhäst, ridning, frimärksfastsättare, montering, objektglas, stativ
v. - gå uppför, klättra, placera, hjälpa upp i sadeln, göra beriden, montera, iscensätta, öppna, hålla vakt, vara bestyckad med, betäcka

中文(简体) (Chinese (Simplified))
1. 登上, 爬上, 骑在...上, 骑上, 给备马, 登, 增长, 上升, 骑上马, 可乘骑的东西, 炮架, 底座, 底板, 托板

idioms:

  • mount up    增加

2. 山, 丘, 峰

中文(繁體) (Chinese (Traditional))
1.
v. tr. - 登上, 爬上, 騎在...上, 騎上, 給備馬
v. intr. - 登, 爬上, 增長, 上升, 騎上馬
n. - 可乘騎的東西, 炮架, 底座, 底板, 托板

idioms:

  • mount up    增加

2.
n. - 山, 丘, 峰

한국어 (Korean)
1.
v. tr. - 오르다, (자전거 등을) 타다, 설치하다, 준비하다, 배치하다
v. intr. - 올라가다, 얼굴이 달아오르다, 말을 타다
n. - 승마, 대지

idioms:

  • mount up    (수, 정도, 비용) 오르다

2.
n. - 작은 산

日本語 (Japanese)
v. - 登る, 乗る, 載せる, はめ込む, 乗せる, 上演準備をする, 上演する, 高まる, 増える, 表装する, 裏打ちする, 搭載する
n. - …山, 乗用馬, 台紙, 台

idioms:

  • mount guard    歩哨に立つ, 見張る, 守る, 番兵に立つ
  • mount up    上がる

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) الاعتلاء (فعل) يعتلي, يرتفع, يصعد, يخرج, يزيد‏

עברית (Hebrew)
v. tr. - ‮עלה, עלה על (סוס), קבע, הרביע, הרכיב, העלה, טיפס, הגדיל, הגביר, הכין לשימור, הכין לניתוח, שם על לוח זכוכית (למיקרוסקופ)‬
v. intr. - ‮הצטבר, עלה בדרגה וכו'‬
n. - ‮הר, מקבע, מרכב, מסגרת, משבצת, רקע לתמונה, כן למצלמה, אקדח וכד'‬
n. - ‮בהמת-רכיבה‬


 
 

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