mount
1to 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.
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:
to get up on something, as a platform.
the act or a manner of mounting.
a horse, other animal, or sometimes a vehicle, as a bicycle, used, provided, or available for riding.
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.
Origin of mount
1synonym study For mount
Other words for mount
Opposites for mount
Other words from mount
- mount·a·ble, adjective
- mountless, adjective
- un·mount·a·ble, adjective
Words Nearby mount
Other definitions for mount (2 of 2)
a mountain: often used as part of a placename.
Origin of mount
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How to use mount in a sentence
Luckily there are a variety of affordable, sleek, and easy to install wall mounts for your screens.
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The lens mount accepts Hasselblad X lenses, which are typically meant for cameras like the natively digital X1D mirrorless camera.
Hasselblad’s new $6,400 camera is weird and wonderful | Stan Horaczek | January 2, 2021 | Popular-ScienceThe Irish tend to use short, high-percentage passes and a strong running attack behind a very good offensive line to avoid turnovers, mount long drives and chew up the clock.
Alabama advances to the national title game with an artful offensive performance | Chuck Culpepper, Des Bieler | January 2, 2021 | Washington PostAll that cash gets you a 50-megapixel medium format sensor attached to a super-compact body equipped with an X-series lens mount.
After all, the Russians were about to mount a winter offensive of their own.
Hitchcock sends the script--unread--to Thom mount and his superior, Ned Tanen.
Alfred Hitchcock’s Fade to Black: The Great Director’s Final Days | David Freeman | December 13, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTIt occurs to me that mount must assume that Hitchcock has read it--after all, it came from him.
Alfred Hitchcock’s Fade to Black: The Great Director’s Final Days | David Freeman | December 13, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTAs the steaks are eaten, mount, who has some skill in these things, brings up the movie.
Alfred Hitchcock’s Fade to Black: The Great Director’s Final Days | David Freeman | December 13, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTOn Monday mount calls to say he thinks the script is terrific.
Alfred Hitchcock’s Fade to Black: The Great Director’s Final Days | David Freeman | December 13, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThe scene is the covenant made between the two first persons of the Trinity on mount Moriah.
These hills, if we have to mount them, shall sorely try the thews of horse and man.
An extraordinary eruption of mount Vesuvius commenced, which in ten days had advanced ten miles from its original source.
The Every Day Book of History and Chronology | Joel MunsellThey that sit on mount Seir, and the Philistines, and the foolish people that dwell in Sichem.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims Version | VariousWhen I am an old maid I am going to mount the platform and preach the training of the voice in childhood.
Ancestors | Gertrude Atherton
British Dictionary definitions for mount (1 of 2)
/ (maʊnt) /
to go up (a hill, stairs, etc); climb
to get up on (a horse, a platform, etc)
(intr often foll by up) 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 guard See guard (def. 26)
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 (def. 5)
Origin of mount
1Derived forms of mount
- mountable, adjective
- mounter, noun
British Dictionary definitions for mount (2 of 2)
/ (maʊnt) /
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
Origin of mount
2Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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