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—mountable, adj. —mountless, adj./mownt/, v.t.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. Micros.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.v.i.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.n.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. Micros. a prepared slide.27. a distinctive metal feature on a sheath or scabbard, as a locket or chape.28. Philately. hinge (def. 4).29. Print. a wooden or metal block to which a plate is secured for printing.[1300-50; ME mounten < OF munter, monter < VL *montare, deriv. of L mont- (s. of mons) MOUNT2]Ant. 1, 19. descend.mount2/mownt/, n. Chiefly Literary.a mountain: often used as part of a placename.[bef. 900; ME, OE munt < L mont- (s. of mons) mountain, hill]
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(as used in expressions)Aconcagua MountArarat MountAso MountAthos MountCameroon MountElbrus MountElgon MountEtna MountEverest MountFairweather MountFuji MountHelicon MountHermon MountHood MountIda MountJaya MountMount SukarnoKarisimbi MountKenya MountKosciusko MountMount LassenLogan MountMount MayonMcKinley MountMitchell MountMount William SidneyNyiragongo MountOlives Mount ofOlympus MountPelée MountPinatubo MountRainier MountRushmore MountSaint Helens MountShasta MountSinai MountMount HorebWashington MountWhitney MountSamuel of Mount Carmel and of Toxeth Herbert Louis Samuel 1st Viscount* * *
Universalium. 2010.
