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1  [mount]
Use Mount in a Sentence
–verb (used with object)
1. to go up; climb; ascend: to mount stairs.
2. to get up on (a platform, a horse, etc.).
3. to set or place at an elevation: to mount a house on stilts.
4. to furnish with a horse or other animal for riding.
5. to set or place (a person) on horseback.
6. to organize, as an army.
7. to prepare and launch, as an attack or a campaign.
8. to raise or put into position for use, as a gun.
9. (of a fortress or warship) to have or carry (guns) in position for use.
10. to go or put on guard, as a sentry or watch.
11. to attach to or fix on or in a support, backing, setting, etc.: to mount a photograph; to mount a diamond in a ring.
12. to arrange for display: to mount a museum exhibit.
13. to provide (a play, musical comedy, opera, etc.) with scenery, costumes, and other equipment for production.
14. to prepare (an animal body or skeleton) as a specimen.
15. (of a male animal) to climb upon (a female) for copulation.
16. Microscopy.
a. to prepare (a slide) for microscopic investigation.
b. to prepare (a sample) for examination by a microscope, as by placing it on a slide.
–verb (used without object)
17. to increase in amount or intensity (often fol. by up): The cost of all those small purchases mounts up.
18. to get up on the back of a horse or other animal for riding.
19. to rise or go to a higher position, level, degree, etc.; ascend.
20. to get up on something, as a platform.
–noun
21. the act or a manner of mounting.
22. a horse, other animal, or sometimes a vehicle, as a bicycle, used, provided, or available for riding.
23. an act or occasion of riding a horse, esp. in a race.
24. a support, backing, setting, or the like, on or in which something is, or is to be, mounted or fixed.
25. an ornamental metal piece applied to a piece of wooden furniture.
26. Microscopy. a prepared slide.
27. a distinctive metal feature on a sheath or scabbard, as a locket or chape.
28. Philately. hinge (def. 4).
29. Printing. a wooden or metal block to which a plate is secured for printing.
Origin:
1300–50; ME mounten < OF munter, monter < VL *montāre, deriv. of L mont- (s. of mōns) mount 2

Related forms:
mount⋅a⋅ble, adjective
mountless, adjective

Synonyms:
1. scale. See climb. 19. soar. 22. steed, charger, palfrey.

Antonyms:
1, 19. descend.
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mount

2  [mount]
–noun Chiefly Literary.
a mountain: often used as part of a placename.
Origin:
bef. 900; ME, OE munt < L mont- (s. of mōns) mountain, hill

hinge

  [hinj] noun, verb, hinged, hing⋅ing.
–noun
1. a jointed device or flexible piece on which a door, gate, shutter, lid, or other attached part turns, swings, or moves.
2. a natural anatomical joint at which motion occurs around a transverse axis, as that of the knee or a bivalve shell.
3. that on which something is based or depends; pivotal consideration or factor.
4. Also called mount. Philately. a gummed sticker for affixing a stamp to a page of an album, so folded as to form a hinge, allowing the stamp to be raised to reveal the text beneath.
–verb (used without object)
5. to be dependent or contingent on, or as if on, a hinge (usually fol. by on or upon): Everything hinges on his decision.
–verb (used with object)
6. to furnish with or attach by a hinge or hinges.
7. to attach as if by a hinge.
8. to make or consider as dependent upon; predicate: He hinged his action on future sales.
Origin:
1250–1300; ME henge; c. LG heng(e), MD henge hinge; akin to hang

Related forms:
hingeless, adjective
hingelike, adjective

Synonyms:
5. rest, swing, pivot, depend.

Mt.

 
1. mount : Mt. Rainier.
2. mountain.
Also, mt.
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mount 1   (mount)   
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.
    3. To fix securely to a support: mount an engine in a car.
    4. 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 set in position for use: mount guns.
    6. To carry as equipment: The warship mounted ten guns.
  5. 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.
    3. To set in position for use: mount guns.
    4. To carry as equipment: The warship mounted ten guns.
  7. To provide with scenery, costumes, and other equipment necessary for production: mount a play.
  8. To organize and equip: mount an army.
  9. 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.
  11. 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; see men-2 in Indo-European roots.]
mount'a·ble adj., mount'er n.
mount 2   (mount)   
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-; see men-2 in Indo-European roots.]
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Mount

Mount\ (mount), n. [OE. munt, mont, mount, AS. munt, fr. L. mons, montis; cf. L. minae protections, E. eminent, menace: cf. F. mont. Cf. Mount, v., Mountain, Mont, Monte, Montem.]

1. A mass of earth, or earth and rock, rising considerably above the common surface of the surrounding land; a mountain; a high hill; -- used always instead of mountain, when put before a proper name; as, Mount Washington; otherwise, chiefly in poetry.

2. A bulwark for offense or defense; a mound. [Obs.]

Hew ye down trees, and cast a mount against Jerusalem. --Jer. vi. 6.

3. [See Mont de pi['e]t['e].] A bank; a fund.

Mount of piety. See Mont de pi['e]t['e].

Mount

Mount\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Mounted; p. pr. & vb. n. Mounting.] [OE. mounten, monten, F. monter, fr. L. mons, montis, mountain. See Mount, n. (above).]

1. To rise on high; to go up; to be upraised or uplifted; to tower aloft; to ascend; -- often with up.

Though Babylon should mount up to heaven. --Jer. li. 53.

The fire of trees and houses mounts on high. --Cowley.

2. To get up on anything, as a platform or scaffold; especially, to seat one's self on a horse for riding.

3. To attain in value; to amount.

Bring then these blessings to a strict account, Make fair deductions, see to what they mount. --Pope.

Mount

Mount\, v. t. 1. To get upon; to ascend; to climb.

Shall we mount again the rural throne? --Dryden.

2. To place one's self on, as a horse or other animal, or anything that one sits upon; to bestride.

3. To cause to mount; to put on horseback; to furnish with animals for riding; to furnish with horses. "To mount the Trojan troop." --Dryden.

4. Hence: To put upon anything that sustains and fits for use, as a gun on a carriage, a map or picture on cloth or paper; to prepare for being worn or otherwise used, as a diamond by setting, or a sword blade by adding the hilt, scabbard, etc.

5. To raise aloft; to lift on high.

What power is it which mounts my love so high? --Shak.

Note: A fort or ship is said to mount cannon, when it has them arranged for use in or about it.

To mount guard (Mil.), to go on guard; to march on guard; to do duty as a guard.

To mount a play, to prepare and arrange the scenery, furniture, etc., used in the play.

Mount

Mount\, n. [From Mount, v.] That upon which a person or thing is mounted, as: (a) A horse.

She had so good a seat and hand, she might be trusted with any mount. --G. Eliot. (b) The cardboard or cloth on which a drawing, photograph, or the like is mounted; a mounting.

Mount

Mount\, n. (Palmistry) Any one of seven fleshy prominences in the palm of the hand which are taken as significant of the influence of "planets," and called the mounts of Jupiter, Mars, Mercury, the Moon, Saturn, the Sun or Apollo, and Venus.
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Language Translation for : Mount
Spanish: montar,
German: besteigen,
Japanese: ～に登る
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mount  (v.)
13c., from O.Fr. monter "to go up, ascend, climb, mount," from V.L. *montare, from L. mons (gen. montis) "mountain" (see mount (n.)). Meaning "to set or place in position" first recorded 1539. Sense of "to get up on (a horse, etc.) to ride" is from 1509; "to get up on for purposes of copulation" is from 1592. The colloquial noun meaning "a horse for riding" first recorded 1856.

mount  (n.)
"hill, mountain," c.1250, from Anglo-Fr. mount, from O.Fr. mont "mountain;" also partly from O.E. munt "mountain;" both the O.E. and the O.Fr. from L. montem (nom. mons, gen. montis) "mountain," from PIE base *men- "to stand out, project" (cf. Welsh mynydd "mountain").
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Main Entry: 1mount
Pronunciation: 'maunt
Function: transitive verb
: to prepare for examination or display; specifically : toplace (an object) on a slide for microscopic examination <mount a specimen>

Main Entry: 2mount
Function: noun
1 : a glass slide with its accessories on which objects are placed for examination with a microscope
2 : a specimen mounted on a slide for microscopic examination
Merriam-Webster's Medical Dictionary, © 2002 Merriam-Webster, Inc.
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mount (mount)
v. mount·ed, mount·ing, mounts
To prepare a specimen for microscopic examination, especially by positioning on a slide.

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mount file system
To make a file system available for access.
Unix does this by associating the file system with a directory (the "mount point") within a currently mounted file system. The "root" file system is mounted on the root directory, "/" early in the boot sequence. "mount" is also the Unix command to do this, "unmount" breaks the association.
E.g., "mount attaches a named file system to the file system hierarchy at the pathname location directory [...]" -- Unix manual page mount(8).
File systems are usually mounted either at boot time under control of /etc/rc (or one of its subfiles) or on demand by an automounter daemon.
Other operating systems such as VMS and DOS mount file systems as separate directory hierarchies without any common ancestor or root directory.
Apparently derived from the physical sense of "mount" meaning "attach", as in "head-mounted display", or "set up", as in "always mount a scratch monkey, etc."
Unix manual page: mount(8).
(1997-04-14)

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Mount

Palestine is a hilly country (Deut. 3:25; 11:11; Ezek. 34:13). West of Jordan the mountains stretch from Lebanon far down into Galilee, terminating in Carmel. The isolated peak of Tabor rises from the elevated plain of Esdraelon, which, in the south, is shut in by hills spreading over the greater part of Samaria. The mountains of Western and Middle Palestine do not extend to the sea, but gently slope into plains, and toward the Jordan fall down into the Ghor. East of the Jordan the Anti-Lebanon, stretching south, terminates in the hilly district called Jebel Heish, which reaches down to the Sea of Gennesareth. South of the river Hieromax there is again a succession of hills, which are traversed by wadies running toward the Jordan. These gradually descend to a level at the river Arnon, which was the boundary of the ancient trans-Jordanic territory toward the south. The composition of the Palestinian hills is limestone, with occasional strata of chalk, and hence the numerous caves, some of large extent, found there.

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