Dictionary Definition
mount
Noun
1 a lightweight horse kept for riding only [syn:
saddle
horse, riding
horse]
2 the act of climbing something; "it was a
difficult climb to the top" [syn: climb]
3 a land mass that projects well above its
surroundings; higher than a hill [syn: mountain]
4 mounting consisting of a piece of metal (as in
a ring or other jewelry) that holds a gem in place; "the diamond
was in a plain gold mount" [syn: setting]
5 something forming a back that is added for
strengthening [syn: backing]
Verb
1 attach to a support; "They mounted the aerator
on a floating"
2 go up or advance; "Sales were climbing after
prices were lowered" [syn: wax, climb, rise] [ant: wane]
3 fix onto a backing, setting, or support; "mount
slides for macroscopic analysis"
4 put up or launch; "mount a campaign against
pronography"
5 get on the back of; "mount a horse" [syn:
hop on,
mount
up, get
on, jump
on, climb on,
bestride] [ant:
hop
out]
6 go upward with gradual or continuous progress;
"Did you ever climb up the hill behind your house?" [syn: climb, climb up,
go
up]
7 prepare and supply with the necessary equipment
for execution or performance; "mount a theater production"; "mount
an attack"; "mount a play" [syn: put on]
8 copulate with; "The bull was riding the cow"
[syn: ride]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Pronunciation
-
- Rhymes: -aʊnt
Etymology 1
- From munt.
Noun
- A mountain, as in Mount Everest
- A horse used to
ride on, unlike a draught
horse
- The rider climbed onto his mount.
- The number of riders in a cavalry unit or division
- The General said he has 2,000 mounts.
Translations
mountain
horse
- Dutch: rijpaard
- Finnish: ratsu
- French: monture
- Polish: wierzchowiec
- Portuguese: montaria
Etymology 2
Middle English from Old French, compare French monterVerb
- To go up; climb; ascend: to mount stairs.
- Antonym: dismount
- The rider mounted his horse.
- To attach an object
to a support, as to
mount a mailbox on a post
- Antonym: demount
- To attach a drive or device to the directory structure in order to make it available to the operating system.
- To get on top of an animal to mate.
- to have sexual
intercourse with someone, something.
- Synonyms - see WikiSaurus:sexual intercourse
- To begin a military assault
- The General gave the order to mount the attack.
Translations
climb up/on; to ride
attach an object
- Finnish: kiinnittää
begin a military assault
- Finnish: järjestää
Luxembourgish
Noun
mountExtensive Definition
Mount may refer to:
Displays and equipment
- Lens mount, an interface used to fix a lens to a camera
- Telescope mount, a device used to support a telescope
- A fixed point for attaching equipment, such as a hardpoint on an airframe
- The display of an item on a heavy backing such as foamcore
- Preparing dead animals for display in taxidermy
Computing and software
- Mount (computing), the process of making a file system accessible
- mount (Unix), the utility in Unix-like operating systems which mounts file systems
- Mount (streaming), a concept used in streaming software programs
Education
- "The Mount", a nickname for the College of Mount St. Joseph
Other meanings
- Mount (grappling), a grappling position
- Mountain, a landform
- Copulation, the union of the sex organs in mating
- Riding animal, any animal that can be ridden
- Boarding an apparatus used for gymnastics, such as a balance beam
mount in Bosnian: Gora (čvor)
mount in German: Mount
mount in French: Mount
mount in Japanese: マウント
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
Everest, Houyhnhnm, Olympus, accrue, accumulate, advance, aggravate, alp, amble, anabasis, appreciate, arise, arrange, arrangement, ascend, ascension, ascent, aspire, augment, back, back up, backdrop, background, backing, ball, balloon, be a gas, be a hit, be
intimate, bearing,
bestraddle, bestride, bidet, bill, bloat, board, bomb, boom, breed, broaden, brood mare, budge, build, build up, bushing, buss the clouds,
canter, caracole, carriage horse, cart
horse, cavalry horse, chandelle, change, change place, charger, chassis, circle, clamber, clamber up, climb, climb on, climb over, climb
up, climbing, cohabit, colt, come together, come up,
commit adultery, compose, coordinate, copulate, couple, courser, cover, crescendo, critter, curl upwards, curvet, deepen, descend, develop, diddle, dobbin, draft horse, dramatize, dray horse, driving
horse, ebb, elevation, enhance, enlarge, entire, entire horse, equine, escalade, escalate, expand, fail, feature, fill horse, filler, filly, flop, flow, fly up, foal, fornicate, fountain, frame, frig, frisk, gain, gain altitude, gain strength,
gallop, gelding, get ahead, get in, get
on, get over, gigster,
give a boost, give a lift, go, go aboard, go around, go on
board, go on horseback, go round, go sideways, go up, grow, grow up, gush, gyrate, gyring up, hack, hackney, have sex, have sexual
relations, headline,
heighten, help up,
hoick, hop in, horse, hump, hunter, increase, infrastructure, install, intensify, jet, jument, jump, jump in, launch, lay, lead, leader, leap, levitate, levitation, lie with,
lift, lofty mountains,
loom, lope, magnify, make a hit, make it
with, make love, make out, mare, mat, mate, melodramatize, mountain, mounting, move, move over, multiply, nag, open, open a show, organize, pace, pack horse, palfrey, peak, piaffe, pile in, pile up, plow
horse, plunge, pole
horse, polo pony, post-horse, prance, prancer, premiere, prepare, present, preview, produce, progress, proliferate, put in place,
put on, ramp, ready, rear, rear up, redouble, regress, remount, retrogress, ride bareback,
ride hard, rider, riding
horse, rise, rise up,
rising, road horse,
roadster, rocketing up,
rotate, rouncy, rouse, run, run up, saddle horse, saddler, saltation, scale, scale the heights, scenarize, scene, scrabble up, scramble up,
screw, seat, serve, service, set, set in motion, set off, set the
stage, set up, setting,
settle, shaft horse,
shift, shin, shin up, shinny, shoot up, shooting up,
show, sink, skeleton, sleep with, snowball, soar, soaring, spin, spiral, spire, spout, spread, spring, spurt, stage, stalking-horse, stallion, stand on tiptoe,
stand up, star, steed, stir, straddle, stream, strengthen, struggle up,
stud, studhorse, subside, succeed, sumpter, sumpter horse, support, surge, surmount, swarm up, sweep up,
swell, take horse,
takeoff, taking off,
tarpan, the wooded
mountains, theatricalize, thill
horse, thiller, tittup, top horse, tor, tower, towering alps, travel, trot, try out, underframe, up, upclimb, upcoming, updraft, upgang, upgo, upgoing, upgrade, upgrow, upgrowth, upheave, uphill, upleap, uplift, upping, uprear, uprisal, uprise, uprising, uprush, upshoot, upslope, upspin, upstream, upsurge, upsurgence, upswarm, upsweep, upswing, upwind, vault, vise, wane, war-horse, wax, wheeler, wheelhorse, whirl, widen, wild horse, workhorse, zoom, zooming