mount

IPA: mˈaʊnt

noun

  • A hill or mountain.
  • (palmistry) Any of seven fleshy prominences in the palm of the hand, taken to represent the influences of various heavenly bodies.
  • (obsolete) A bulwark for offence or defence; a mound.
  • (obsolete) A bank; a fund.
  • (heraldry) A green hillock in the base of a shield.
  • An animal, usually a horse, used to ride on (unlike a draught horse).
  • (now only figurative) A car, bicycle, or motorcycle used for racing.
  • A mounting; an object on which another object is mounted.
  • (obsolete) A rider in a cavalry unit or division.
  • A step or block to assist in mounting a horse.
  • A signal for mounting a horse.
  • (martial arts) A dominant ground grappling position, where one combatant sits on the other combatants torso with the face pointing towards the opponent's head.
  • (gymnastics) The act of getting onto the apparatus.
  • A surname.
  • A hamlet in Perranzabuloe parish, Cornwall, England (OS grid ref SW7856).
  • A hamlet in Warleggan parish, east Cornwall (OS grid ref SX1468).

verb

  • (transitive) To get upon; to ascend; to climb.
  • (transitive) To place oneself on (a horse, a bicycle, etc.); to bestride.
  • (transitive) To cause to mount; to put on horseback; to furnish with animals for riding.
  • (obsolete, transitive) To cause (something) to rise or ascend; to drive up; to raise; to elevate; to lift up.
  • (transitive, martial arts) To sit on a combatant's torso with the face pointing towards the opponent's head; to assume the mount position in ground grappling.
  • (intransitive, rare) To rise on high; to go up; to be upraised or uplifted; to tower aloft; to ascend; often with up.
  • (transitive) To attach (an object) to a support, backing, framework etc.
  • (transitive, computing) To attach (a drive or device) to the file system in order to make it available to the operating system.
  • (intransitive, sometimes with up) To increase in quantity or intensity.
  • (obsolete) To attain in value; to amount (to).
  • (transitive) To get on top of (another) for the purpose of copulation.
  • (transitive) To have or begin sexual intercourse with someone.
  • (transitive) To begin (a campaign, military assault, etc.); to launch.
  • (transitive, archaic) To deploy (cannon) for use.
  • (transitive) To prepare and arrange the scenery, furniture, etc. for use in (a play or production).
  • (cooking) To incorporate fat, especially butter, into (a dish, especially a sauce to finish it).
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Examples of "mount" in Sentences

  • A full body mount is much more impressive than a picture.
  • Having not seen any deer on this stand yet that season, I though a Martin mount would look great back at our deer camp.
  • And in the day time he was teaching in the temple; and at night he went out, and abode in the mount that is called _the mount_ of
  • They're stopping in with the ones that have their name out all over, the ones that think 300-500 bucks for a deer mount is reasonable.
  • TIMBERG: Then I went to Camp Pendleton, California, for about eight months and then I was in the Marine Corps -- what you call mount-out.
  • No weapons are allowed but your mount is allowed to employ whatever naturally occurring offensive or defensive capabilities that it possesses.

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