different between dismount vs dismounting

English

Etymology

dis- +? mount, probably a calque of Old French desmonter.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d?s?ma?nt/
• Rhymes: -a?nt

Verb

dismount (third-person singular simple present dismounts, present participle dismounting, simple past and past participle dismounted)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To (cause to) get off (something).

   She carefully dismounted from the horse.

   She carefully dismounted the horse.

   • 2012, July 15. Richard Williams in Guardian Unlimited, Tour de France 2012: Carpet tacks cannot force Bradley Wiggins off track

     Cadel Evans was the first to suffer, quickly dismounting and waiting to take a bike from one of his BMC Racing team-mates, only to discover that the first of them had also punctured.

2. (computing, transitive, intransitive) To make (a mounted drive) unavailable for use.

   The VMS operator tried to dismount the Unix hard drive with the DISMOUNT DISK$NFSMOUNT command, instead of umount /mnt/nfshome.

   • 1995, Rick Sant'Angelo, NetWare unleashed (page 1130)

     PROBLEM: A volume periodically dismounts. There are two drives with one volume on each. From time to time, the second volume dismounts and the drive shuts down.

3. (intransitive) To come down; to descend.

   • But now the bright sun ginneth to dismount.

4. (military, transitive) To throw (cannon) off their carriages.

Synonyms

• (computing): unmount, umount

Antonyms

• (get off something): get on
• (computing): mount

Translations

Noun

dismount (plural dismounts)

1. (gymnastics) The part of a routine in which the gymnast detaches from an apparatus.

   It was a stylish routine, let down by a sloppy dismount.

Translations

English

Verb

dismounting

1. present participle of dismount

Noun

dismounting (plural dismountings)

1. The act of one who dismounts.
   • 1834, John Dunmore Lang, An Historical and Statistical Account of New South Wales

     The stage we had now commenced was eighteen miles in length; but the frequent mountings and dismountings, to climb or to descend the rocky sides of the mountains, made it appear much longer.