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mounted

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mount·ed

[moun-tid]
adjective
1.
seated or riding on a horse or other animal.
2.
serving on horseback or on some special mount, as soldiers or police.
3.
Military. (formerly) permanently equipped with horses or vehicles for transport. Compare mobile (def. 3).
4.
having or set in a mounting: mounted gems.
5.
put into position for use, as guns.

Origin:
1575–85; mount1 + -ed2

un·mount·ed, adjective
well-mount·ed, adjective


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mount

1[mount]
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.
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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.
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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.
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.
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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.
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Origin:
1300–50; Middle English mounten < Old French munter, monter < Vulgar Latin *montāre, derivative of Latin mont- (stem of mōns) mount2

mount·a·ble, adjective
mount·less, adjective
un·mount·a·ble, adjective


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


1, 19. descend.

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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
"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").
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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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