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mount
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ma?nt/
- Rhymes: -a?nt
Etymology 1
From Middle English mount, munt, from Old English munt, from Latin mons (“a hill, mountain”), from a root seen also in ?mine? (“I project, I protrude”) (English eminent). Doublet of mons.
Noun
mount (plural mounts)
- A hill or mountain.
- (palmistry) Any of seven fleshy prominences in the palm of the hand, taken to represent the influences of various heavenly bodies.
- the mount of Jupiter
- (obsolete) A bulwark for offence or defence; a mound.
- (obsolete) A bank; a fund.
- (heraldry) A green hillock in the base of a shield.
Usage notes
As with the names of rivers and lakes, the names of mountains are typically formed by adding the word before or after the unique term. Mount is used in situations where the word precedes the unique term: Mount Everest, Mount Rushmore, Mount Tai. Except in the misunderstood translation of foreign names (as with China's Mount Hua), the terms used with mount will therefore usually be nouns: Mount Olympus but Rugged Mountain and Crowfoot Mountain. It thus corresponds to the earlier the mount or mountain of ~.
Mount is no longer used as a generic synonym for mountain except in poetry and other literary contexts. An example is the fossilized form within the phrase Sermon on the Mount.
Synonyms
- (palmistry): mons (obsolete)
Derived terms
Translations
Etymology 2
From Middle English mounten, from Anglo-Norman mounter, from Old French monter, from Medieval Latin montare (“to mount; literally, go up hill”), from Latin mons (“a hill, mountain”); compare French monter.
Noun
mount (plural mounts)
- An animal, usually a horse, used to ride on, unlike a draught horse
- The rider climbed onto his mount.
- A mounting; an object on which another object is mounted.
- The post is the mount on which the mailbox is installed.
- (obsolete) A rider in a cavalry unit or division.
- The General said he has 2,000 mounts.
- A step or block to assist in mounting a horse.
- A signal for mounting a horse.
Translations
Verb
mount (third-person singular simple present mounts, present participle mounting, simple past and past participle mounted)
- (transitive) To get upon; to ascend; to climb.
- Or shall we mount again the Rural Throne, / And rule the Country Kingdoms, once our own?
- (transitive) To place oneself on (a horse, a bicycle, etc.); to bestride.
- (transitive) To cause to mount; to put on horseback; to furnish with animals for riding.
- to mount the Trojan troop
- (obsolete, transitive) To cause (something) to rise or ascend; to drive up; to raise; to elevate; to lift up.
- (obsolete, intransitive) To rise on high; to go up; to be upraised or uplifted; to tower aloft; to ascend; often with up.
- 1656, Abraham Cowley, Davideis
- The fire of trees and houses mounts on high.
- 1656, Abraham Cowley, Davideis
- (transitive) To attach (an object) to a support, backing, framework etc.
- “My Continental prominence is improving,” I commented dryly. ¶ Von Lindowe cut at a furze bush with his silver-mounted rattan. ¶ “Quite so,” he said as dryly, his hand at his mustache. “I may say if your intentions were known your life would not be worth a curse.”
- (transitive, computing) To attach (a drive or device) to the file system in order to make it available to the operating system.
- 1998, Lincoln D. Stein, Web Security: A Step-by-step Reference Guide (page 377)
- Burn the contents of the staging area onto a writable CD-ROM, carry it over to the Web server, and mount it.
- 1998, Lincoln D. Stein, Web Security: A Step-by-step Reference Guide (page 377)
- (intransitive, sometimes with up) To increase in quantity or intensity.
- (obsolete) To attain in value; to amount (to).
- (transitive) To get on top of (an animal) to mate.
- (transitive) To have sexual intercourse with someone.
- (transitive) To begin (a campaign, military assault, etc.); to launch.
- (transitive, archaic) To deploy (cannon) for use.
- (transitive) To prepare and arrange the scenery, furniture, etc. for use in (a play or production).
- (cooking) To incorporate fat, especially butter, into (a dish, especially a sauce to finish it).
- Mount the sauce with one tablespoon of butter.
Synonyms
- (to have sexual intercourse with someone): coitize, go to bed with, sleep with; see also Thesaurus:copulate with
Antonyms
- dismount
- demount
- unmount
Translations
Related terms
- amount
- mountain
- paramount
- surmount
Further reading
- mount in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- mount in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- mount at OneLook Dictionary Search
Anagrams
- muton, notum
Middle English
Alternative forms
- munt, mont, mounte, mownt
Etymology
From Old English munt and Anglo-Norman mount, both from Latin m?ns.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /mu?nt/, /munt/
Noun
mount (plural mountes or mouns)
- A mountain; a mount or peak, especially the Alps.
Related terms
- mountant
- mounten
- mountayne
- mountuous
- mounture
Descendants
- English: mount
- Scots: munt
References
- “m?unt, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-08-08.
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stell
English
Etymology 1
From Middle English stellen, from Old English stellan (“to give a place to, set, place”), from Proto-West Germanic *stalljan (“to put, position”), from Proto-Indo-European *stel- (“to place, put, post, stand”). Cognate with Dutch stellen (“to set, put”), Low German stellen (“to put, place, fix”), German stellen (“to set, place, provide”), Old English steall (“position, place”). More at stall.
Verb
stell (third-person singular simple present stells, present participle stelling, simple past and past participle stelled or stold)
- (transitive, Britain dialectal, Scotland) To place in position; set up, fix, plant; prop, mount.(Can we add an example for this sense?)
- (transitive, obsolete) To portray; delineate; display.
- 1594, William Shakespeare, The Rape of Lucrece, 1443–44:
- To this well-painted piece is Lucrece come,
- To find a face where all distress is stelled.
- 1609, William Shakespeare, Sonnet 24:
- Mine eye hath play'd the painter and hath stell'd
- Thy beauty's form in table of my heart ...
- 1594, William Shakespeare, The Rape of Lucrece, 1443–44:
Etymology 2
Alteration of stall, after the verb to stell.
Noun
stell (plural stells)
- (archaic) A place; station.
- A stall; a fold for cattle.
- (Scotland) A prop; a support, as for the feet in standing or climbing.
- (Scotland) A still.
- 1786, Robert Burns, "The Author's Earnest Cry And Prayer":
- Paint Scotland greetin owre her thrissle;
- Her mutchkin stowp as toom's a whissle;
- An' damn'd excisemen in a bussle,
- Seizin a stell,
- Triumphant crushin't like a mussel,
- Or limpet shell!
- 1791, Robert Burns, "Such a Parcel of Rogues in a Nation":
- The English stell we could disdain,
- Secure in valour's station;
- But English gold has been our bane-
- Such a parcel of rogues in a nation!
- 1786, Robert Burns, "The Author's Earnest Cry And Prayer":
Related terms
- stall
Anagrams
- Tells, tells
German
Verb
stell
- singular imperative of stellen
Icelandic
Etymology 1
Borrowed from Danish stel.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /st?l?/
- Rhymes: -?l?
Noun
stell n (genitive singular stells, nominative plural stell)
- service (set of matching dishes or untensils)
- set of false teeth
Declension
Etymology 2
Back-formation from stella (“to potter about, to tinker”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /st?tl/
- Rhymes: -?tl
Noun
stell n (genitive singular stells, no plural)
- pottering, tinkering, idle work
- Synonyms: föndur, bauk, dund, dútl
Declension
Plautdietsch
Adjective
stell
- quiet, silent, still
- calm, peaceful
Yola
Noun
stell
- Alternative form of sthill
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