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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 followed 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, especially in a race.
24.
25.
an ornamental metal piece applied to a piece of wooden furniture.
Origin:
1300–50; Middle English mounten < Old French munter, monter < Vulgar Latin *montāre, derivative of Latin mont- (stem of mōns) mount2
1300–50; Middle English mounten < Old French munter, monter < Vulgar Latin *montāre, derivative of Latin mont- (stem of mōns) mount2
Related forms
mount·a·ble, adjective
mount·less, adjective
un·mount·a·ble, adjective
Antonyms
1, 19. descend.
1, 19. descend.
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mount1 (maʊnt) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —vb (often foll by up) | |
| 1. | to go up (a hill, stairs, etc); climb |
| 2. | to get up on (a horse, a platform, etc) |
| 3. | io increase; accumulate: excitement mounted |
| 4. | (tr) to fix onto a backing, setting, or support: to mount a photograph; to mount a slide |
| 5. | (tr) to provide with a horse for riding, or to place on a horse |
| 6. | (of male animals) to climb onto (a female animal) for copulation |
| 7. | (tr) to prepare (a play, musical comedy, etc) for production |
| 8. | (tr) to plan and organize (a compaign, an exhibition, etc) |
| 9. | (tr) military to prepare or launch (an operation): the Allies mounted an offensive |
| 10. | (tr) to prepare (a skeleton, dead animal, etc) for exhibition as a specimen |
| 11. | (tr) to place or carry (weapons) in such a position that they can be fired |
| 12. | mount guard See guard |
| —n | |
| 13. | a backing, setting, or support onto which something is fixed |
| 14. | the act or manner of mounting |
| 15. | a horse for riding |
| 16. | a slide used in microscopy |
| 17. | philately |
| a. a small transparent pocket in an album for a postage stamp | |
| b. another word for hinge | |
| [C16: from Old French munter, from Vulgar Latin montāre (unattested) from Latin mons | |
| 'mountable1 | |
| —adj | |
| 'mounter1 | |
| —n | |
| mount2 (maʊnt) | |
| —n | |
| 1. | a mountain or hill: used in literature and (when cap.) in proper names: Mount Everest |
| 2. | (in palmistry) any of the seven cushions of flesh on the palm of the hand |
| [Old English munt, from Latin mons mountain, but influenced in Middle English by Old French mont] | |
| mounted (ˈmaʊntɪd) | |
| —adj | |
| 1. | equipped with or riding horses: mounted police |
| 2. | provided with a support, backing, etc |
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Word Origin & History
mount
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 1530s. Sense of "to get up on (a horse, etc.) to ride" is from c.1500; "to get up on for
purposes of copulation" is from 1590s. The colloquial noun meaning "a horse for riding" first recorded 1856. Related: Mounted; mounting.
mount
"hill, mountain," mid-13c., 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, © 2010 Douglas Harper
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American Heritage
Medical Dictionary
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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Easton
Bible Dictionary
Mount definition
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.
Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary
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Example sentences
He came to our little town as next in command of a company of gendarmes-mounted frontier police.
Onlookers admire a shoulder-mounted flame instrument and its scantily clad fire player.
Such systems generally consist of a roof-mounted solar collector and a storage tank.
Millions of jobs disappeared, home-loan defaults mounted and corporate restructuring made the workplace distinctly unsettling.
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