mount

mount¹

—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]

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

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 Mount

Ararat Mount

Aso Mount

Athos Mount

Cameroon Mount

Elbrus Mount

Elgon Mount

Etna Mount

Everest Mount

Fairweather Mount

Fuji Mount

Helicon Mount

Hermon Mount

Hood Mount

Ida Mount

Jaya Mount

Mount Sukarno

Karisimbi Mount

Kenya Mount

Kosciusko Mount

Mount Lassen

Logan Mount

Mount Mayon

McKinley Mount

Mitchell Mount

Mount Aspiring National Park

Mount Cook National Park

Mount Holyoke College

Mount Vernon

Mount Wilson Observatory

Mount William Sidney

Nyiragongo Mount

Olives Mount of

Olympus Mount

Pelée Mount

Pinatubo Mount

Rainier Mount

Rushmore Mount

Saint Helens Mount

Sermon on the Mount

Shasta Mount

Sinai Mount

Mount Horeb

Washington Mount

Whitney Mount

Samuel of Mount Carmel and of Toxeth Herbert Louis Samuel 1st Viscount

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