mount
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
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Etymology: From Middle English mount, munt, from Old English munt, from Latin mōns (“a hill, mountain”), from a root seen also in ēmineō (“to project, to protrude”) (English eminent). Doublet of mons. Not related to mound.
Inflected forms:
form: mounts
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: mounts
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: mounting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: mounted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: mounted
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A hill or mountain.
pos: noun
gloss: Any of seven fleshy prominences in the palm of the hand, taken to represent the influences of various heavenly bodies.
pos: noun
examples: the mount of Jupiter
gloss: A bulwark for offence or defence; a mound.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
examples: ⸿ For thus hath the Lord of hoſtes said ; Hew yee downe trees and ‖ caſt a mount againſt Jeruſalem : this is the citie to be viſited, ſhe is wholly oppreſſion in the midſt of her.
gloss: A bank; a fund.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
gloss: A green hillock in the base of a shield.
pos: noun
gloss: To get upon; to ascend; to climb.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: to mount stairs
Or shall we mount again the Rural Throne,
And rule the Country Kingdoms, once our own?
This time I was received with a smile. Monsieur Poirot was within. Would I mount? I mounted accordingly.
gloss: To place oneself on (a horse, a bicycle, etc.); to bestride.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The rider mounted his horse.
gloss: To cause to mount; to put on horseback; to furnish with animals for riding.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: to mount the Trojan troop
gloss: To cause (something) to rise or ascend; to drive up; to raise; to elevate; to lift up.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
transitive
examples: What power is it which mounts my love so high?
gloss: To sit on a combatant's torso with the face pointing towards the opponent's head; to assume the mount position in ground grappling.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To rise on high; to go up; to be upraised or uplifted; to tower aloft; to ascend; often with up.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
rare
examples: Though Babylon ſhould mount vp to heauen, and though ſhee ſhould fortifie the height of her ſtrength, yet from me ſhall ſpoilers come vnto her, ſaith the Lord.
The fire of trees and houses mounts on high.
I was at the Mathematical School, where the Maſter taught his Pupils after a Method ſcarce imaginable to us in Europe. The Propoſition and Demonſtration were fairly written on a thin Wafer, with Ink compoſed of a Cephalick Tincture. This the Student was to ſwallow upon a faſting Stomach, and for three days following eat nothing but Bread and Water. As the Wafer digeſted, the Tincture mounted to his Brain, bearing the Propoſition along with it.
⁠Thy spirit ere our fatal loss
⁠Did ever rise from high to higher;
⁠As mounts the heavenward altar-fire,
As flies the lighter thro’ the gross.
gloss: To attach (an object) to a support, backing, framework etc.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: to mount a mailbox on a post
to mount a specimen on a small plate of glass for viewing by a microscope
to mount a photograph on cardboard
to mount an engine in a car
But then I had the [massive] flintlock by me for protection. ¶[…]The linen-press and a chest on the top of it formed, however, a very good gun-carriage; and, thus mounted, aim could be taken out of the window at the old mare feeding in the meadow below by the brook, and a 'bead' could be drawn upon Molly, the dairymaid, kissing the fogger behind the hedge,[…].
“My Continental prominence is improving,” I commented dryly.
Von Lindowe cut at a furze bush with his silver-mounted rattan.
“Quite so,” he said as dryly, his hand at his mustache. “I may say if your intentions were known your life would not be worth a curse.”
He spends his days flitting through the woods with his shot-gun and his butterfly-net, and his evenings in mounting the many specimens he has acquired.
gloss: To attach (a drive or device) to the file system in order to make it available to the operating system.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Burn the contents of the staging area onto a writable CD-ROM, carry it over to the Web server, and mount it.
gloss: To increase in quantity or intensity.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
sometimes
with-up
examples: The bills mounted up and the business failed.  There is mounting tension in Crimea.
gloss: To attain in value; to amount (to).
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
examples: Bring then these blessings to a strict account,
Make fair deductions, see to what they mount.
gloss: To get on top of (another) for the purpose of copulation.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: When God presented Lilith to Adam, Adam was overjoyed and enthusiastically set her on the ground and tried to mount her after the fashion of the animals; but Lilith protested and said: "Why should I be on the bottom and you on the top?"
gloss: To have or begin sexual intercourse with someone.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: She mounted him last night.
gloss: To begin (a campaign, military assault, etc.); to launch.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The General gave the order to mount the attack.
For Liverpool, their season will now be regarded as a relative disappointment after failure to add the FA Cup to the Carling Cup and not mounting a challenge to reach the Champions League places.
Corals mount a two-stage response to heat stress, first bleaching and then dying. Some of the southernmost reefs, exposed to the hottest water, are already dead but those in slightly cooler locations have a better chance of survival and regeneration.
A Bolivian general has been arrested and accused of mounting a coup against the government after attempting to storm the presidential palace on Wednesday.
gloss: To deploy (cannon) for use.
pos: verb
tags: archaic
transitive
examples: to mount a cannon
gloss: To prepare and arrange the scenery, furniture, etc. for use in (a play or production).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To incorporate fat, especially butter, into (a dish, especially a sauce to finish it).
pos: verb
examples: Mount the sauce with one tablespoon of butter.
Synonyms: go to bed with
sleep with
Antonyms: dismount
demount
unmount
Related words: mont
amount
mountain
paramount
surmount
Derived words: Boona Mount
Dehiwala-Mount Lavinia
Fitzgeralds Mount
Lower Mount Walker
marchmount
Marshall Mount
Marys Mount
montuous
Mount Abundance
Mount Adams
Mount Adrah
Mount Alexander
Mount Alford
Mount Alfred
Mount Alma
Mount Anketell
Mount Annan
Mount Aquila
Mount Archer
Mount Arlington
Mount Arthur
Mount Atkinson
Mount Austin
Mount Ayr
Mount Barker
Mount Barker Junction
Mount Barker Springs
Mount Barker Summit
Mount Barney
Mountbatten
Mount Batten
Mount Beauty
Mount Beckworth
Mount Benson
Mount Beppo
Mount Berryman
Mount Best
Mount Bethel
Mount Bindango
Mount Binga
Mount Bolton
Mount Borah
Mount Britton
Mount Bruno
Mount Bryan
Mount Bryan East
Mount Budd
Mount Buffalo
Mount Buller
Mount Bundey
Mount Bures
Mount Burges
Mount Burnett
Mount Burr
Mount Burrell
Mount Bute
Mount Byron
Mount Camel
Mount Cameron
Mount Carbine
Mount Carmel
Mount Caroline
Mount Carroll
Mount Catherine
Mount Chalmers
Mount Charles
Mount Claremont
Mount Clarence
Mount Clear
Mount Clemens
Mount Colah
Mount Cole
Mount Cole Creek
Mount Colliery
Mount Collins
Mount Compass
Mount Coolon
Mount Cooper
Mount Coot-tha
Mount Cotton
Mount Cottrell
Mount Crawford
Mount Crested Butte
Mount Crosby
Mount Currie
Mount Dampier
Mount Dandenong
Mount Darragh
Mount Darry
Mount Data
Mount David
Mount Debateable
Mount Dee
Mount Delaney
Mount Deli
Mount Desert
Mount Direction
Mount Dora
Mount Doran
Mount Druitt
Mount Drummond
Mount Dryden
Mount Duneed
Mount Eccle
Mount Edwards
Mount Egerton
Mount Eisenhower
Mount Elbert
Mount Eliza
Mount Elliot
Mount Elphinstone
Mount Emlyn
Mount Emu
Mount Enniskillen
Mount Erebus
Mount Erin
Mount Etna
Mount Evelyn
Mount Everest
Mount Fairy
Mountfield
Mount Field
Mount Florida
Mount Forbes
Mount Foster
Mount Fox
Mount Franklin
Mount French
Mount Frome
Mount Gambier
Mount Gardiner
Mount Garnet
Mount George
Mount Gilead
Mount Gipps
Mount Glasgow
Mount Glorious
Mount Godwin-Austen
Mount Gould
Mount Gravatt
Mount Gravatt East
Mount Hallen
Mount Hampden
Mount Hampton
Mount Hardey
Mount Hardman
Mount Harris
Mount Hawthorn
Mount Helen
Mount Helena
Mount Hicks
Mount Hill
Mount Holland
Mount Holly
Mount Hooghly
Mount Hope
Mount Horeb
Mount Horner
Mount Howe
Mount Hubbard
Mount Hunter
Mount Hutton
Mount Ida
Mount Irvine
Mount Irving
Mount Isa
Mount Isa City
Mount Ive
Mount Jackson
Mount Jagged
Mount Jewett
Mount Johns
Mount Joy
Mount Jukes
Mount Julian
Mount Keira
Mount Kelly
Mount Kelsey
Mount Kembla
Mount Kilcoy
Mount Kingiman
Mount Knowles
Mount Kuring-Gai
Mount Kynoch
Mount Lambie
Mount Larcom
Mount Laurel
Mount Lawless
Mount Lawley
Mount Lebanon
mountlet
Mount Lewis
Mount Liebig
Mount Light
Mount Lindesay
Mount Lindsey
Mount Lloyd
Mount Lofty
Mount Logan
Mount Lonarch
Mount Louisa
Mount Low
Mount Luke
Mount Macarthur
Mount Macedon
Mount Mackay
Mount Madden
Mount Magnet
Mount Magnificent
Mount Major
Mount Maria
Mount Marlow
Mount Marrow
Mount Marsden
Mount Marsh
Mount Marshall
Mount Martha
Mount Martin
Mount Mary
Mount Maunganui
Mount McEuen
Mount McIntyre
Mount McKenzie
Mount Mee
Mount Mellum
Mount Melville
Mount Mercer
Mount Mitchell
Mount Moffatt
Mount Molar
Mount Molloy
Mount Morgan
Mount Moriac
Mount Moriah
Mount Mort
Mount Mulgrave
Mount Mulligan
Mount Murchison
Mount Murray
Mount Napier
Mount Nasura
Mount Nathan
Mount Nebo
Mount Nelson
Mount Ney
Mount Observation
Mount of Olives
Mount of the Holy Cross
mount of Venus
Mount Olive
Mount Olivet
Mount Olympus
Mount Ommaney
Mount Osmond
Mount Ossa
Mount Ousley
Mount Palmer
Mount Panorama
Mount Pavlof
Mount Pelion
Mount Perry
Mount Peter
Mount Pleasant
Mount Pluto
Mount Poinsur
Mount Pritchard
Mount Prospect
Mount Rankin
Mount Rascal
Mount Remarkable
Mount Richmond
Mount Richon
Mount Rivers
Mount Riverview
Mount Roland
Mount Romance
Mount Rooper
Mount Rowan
Mount Royal
Mount Ruapehu
Mount Rumney
Mount Russell
Mount Sabine
Mount Saint Thomas
Mount Samson
Mount Schank
Mount Seaview
Mount Serle
Mount Seymour
Mount Sharp
Mount Sheila
Mount Sheridan
Mount Stanley
Mount Steadman
Mount Stephen
Mount Sterling
Mount St. Helens
Mount Stirling
Mount St John
Mount Stuart
Mount Sturt
Mount Surprise
Mount Surround
Mount Sylvia
Mount Tabor
Mount Tarampa
Mount Tarcoola
Mount Tassie
Mount Taylor
Mount Templeton
Mount Tenandra
Mount Thorley
Mount Tom
Mount Tomah
Mount Toolebewong
Mount Torrens
Mount Tully
Mount Tyson
Mount Union
Mount Urah
Mount Vernon
Mount Victoria
Mount View
Mount Vincent
Mount Walker
Mount Walker West
Mount Wallace
Mount Warning
Mount Warren Park
Mount Warrigal
Mount Washington
Mount Waverley
Mount Wedge
Mount Wells
Mount Werong
Mount White
Mount Whitestone
Mount Whitney
Mount William
Mount Willoughby
Mount Wilson
Mount Wyatt
Mount Zeil
Mount Zion
Mt.
Rocky Mount
Rosemount
seamount
South Mount Cameron
Stewarts Mount
St Michael's Mount
Tannas Mount
trimount
Upper Mount Gravatt
Westmount
mismount
overmount
automount
mountable
mount a horse foaled by an acorn
mountboard
Mountcastle
mountdown
mounter
mount St. George
mount the high horse
mount up
outmount
Outremount
premount
remount
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