[mount] 
| 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.
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| 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. |
| 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. |
[mount] | a mountain: often used as part of a placename. |
[hinj] noun, verb, hinged, hing⋅ing.| 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. |
| 5. | to be dependent or contingent on, or as if on, a hinge (usually fol. by on or upon): Everything hinges on his decision. |
| 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. |
| mount 1 (mount) v. mount·ed, mount·ing, mounts v. tr.
[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.
[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.] |
hinge (hĭnj)
n.
A jointed or flexible device that allows the turning or pivoting of a part, such as a door or lid, on a stationary frame.
mount (mount)
v. mount·ed, mount·ing, mounts
To prepare a specimen for microscopic examination, especially by positioning on a slide.
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)
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.