MOUNT
\mˈa͡ʊnt], \mˈaʊnt], \m_ˈaʊ_n_t]\
Definitions of MOUNT
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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something forming a back that is added for strengthening
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go upward with gradual or continuous progress; "Did you ever climb up the hill behind your house?"
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fix onto a backing, setting, or support; "mount slides for macroscopic analysis"
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the act of climbing something; "it was a difficult climb to the top"
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copulate with; "The bull was riding the cow"
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put up or launch; "mount a campaign against pronography"
By Princeton University
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something forming a back that is added for strengthening
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go upward with gradual or continuous progress; "Did you ever climb up the hill behind your house?"
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fix onto a backing, setting, or support; "mount slides for macroscopic analysis"
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copulate with, as of animals; "The bull was riding the cow"
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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A horse.
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A mountain.
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A mass of earth, or earth and rock, rising considerably above the common surface of the surrounding land; a mountain; a high hill; -- used always instead of mountain, when put before a proper name; as, Mount Washington; otherwise, chiefly in poetry.
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A bulwark for offense or defense; a mound.
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A bank; a fund.
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To get up on anything, as a platform or scaffold; especially, to seat one's self on a horse for riding.
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To get upon; to ascend; to climb.
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To cause to mount; to put on horseback; to furnish with animals for riding; to furnish with horses.
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Hence: To put upon anything that sustains and fits for use, as a gun on a carriage, a map or picture on cloth or paper; to prepare for being worn or otherwise used, as a diamond by setting, or a sword blade by adding the hilt, scabbard, etc.
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To raise aloft; to lift on high.
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That upon which a person or thing is mounted
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The cardboard or cloth on which a drawing, photograph, or the like is mounted; a mounting.
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To rise on high; to go up; to be upraised or uplifted; to tower aloft; to ascend; - often with up.
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Any one of seven fleshy prominences in the palm of the hand which are taken as significant of the influence of planets, and called the mounts of Jupiter, Mars, Mercury, the Moon, Saturn, the Sun or Apollo, and Venus.
By Oddity Software
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A horse.
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A mountain.
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A mass of earth, or earth and rock, rising considerably above the common surface of the surrounding land; a mountain; a high hill; -- used always instead of mountain, when put before a proper name; as, Mount Washington; otherwise, chiefly in poetry.
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A bulwark for offense or defense; a mound.
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A bank; a fund.
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To get up on anything, as a platform or scaffold; especially, to seat one's self on a horse for riding.
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To get upon; to ascend; to climb.
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To cause to mount; to put on horseback; to furnish with animals for riding; to furnish with horses.
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Hence: To put upon anything that sustains and fits for use, as a gun on a carriage, a map or picture on cloth or paper; to prepare for being worn or otherwise used, as a diamond by setting, or a sword blade by adding the hilt, scabbard, etc.
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To raise aloft; to lift on high.
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That upon which a person or thing is mounted
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The cardboard or cloth on which a drawing, photograph, or the like is mounted; a mounting.
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To rise on high; to go up; to be upraised or uplifted; to tower aloft; to ascend; - often with up.
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Any one of seven fleshy prominences in the palm of the hand which are taken as significant of the influence of planets, and called the mounts of Jupiter, Mars, Mercury, the Moon, Saturn, the Sun or Apollo, and Venus.
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A mass of earth, or earth and rock, rising considerably above the common surface of the surrounding land; a mountain; a high hill; - used always instead of mountain, when put before a proper name; as, Washington; otherwise, chiefly in poetry.
By Noah Webster.
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A mountain.
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To ascend.
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To set or get on horseback.
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To place on a mounting; supply with fittings; equip.
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To amount.
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A saddle-horse; a mounting.
By James Champlin Fernald
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A hill or mountain; a rocky elevation; a horse suitable for riding; cardboard on which a drawing is fixed.
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To raise on high; climb; go up; bestride, as a horse; furnish with horses; prepare for use by fixing on, or in, something else; as, to mount a photograph on a card.
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To rise or increase; to tower; get on horseback; go up, as on a platform.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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Ground rising above the level of the surrounding country: a hill: an ornamental mound: (B.) a bulwark for offence or defence.
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To project or rise up: to be of great elevation.
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To raise aloft: to climb: to get upon, as a horse: to put on horseback: to put upon something, to arrange or set in fitting order.
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MOUNTER.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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