Definition of "mount"

mount¹

/maʊnt/

noun
plural mounts
1. A hill or mountain.
2. (palmistry) Any of seven fleshy prominences in the palm of the hand, taken to represent the influences of various heavenly bodies.
3. (obsolete) A bulwark for offence or defence; a mound.
  Quotations
  ⸿ For thus hath the Lord of hoſtes said ; Hew yee downe trees and ‖ caſt a mount againſt Jeruſalem : this is the citie to be viſited, ſhe is wholly oppreſſion in the midſt of her.
  1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], Jeremiah 6:6, columns 2–1
4. (obsolete) A bank; a fund.
5. (heraldry) A green hillock in the base of a shield.

mount²

/maʊnt/

noun
plural mounts
1. An animal, usually a horse, used to ride on (unlike a draught horse).
2. (now only figurative) A car, bicycle, or motorcycle used for racing.
3. A mounting; an object on which another object is mounted.
4. (obsolete) A rider in a cavalry unit or division.
5. A step or block to assist in mounting a horse.
6. A signal for mounting a horse.
7. (martial arts) A dominant ground grappling position, where one combatant sits on the other combatants torso with the face pointing towards the opponent's head.
verb
third-person singular simple present mounts, present participle mounting, simple past and past participle mounted
1. (transitive) To get upon; to ascend; to climb.
  Quotations
  Or shall we mount again the Rural Throne,And rule the Country Kingdoms, once our own?
  1697, Virgil, “(please specify the page)”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […]
2. (transitive) To place oneself on (a horse, a bicycle, etc.); to bestride.
3. (transitive) To cause to mount; to put on horseback; to furnish with animals for riding.
  Quotations
  to mount the Trojan troop
  1697, Virgil, “(please specify the book number)”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […]
4. (obsolete, transitive) To cause (something) to rise or ascend; to drive up; to raise; to elevate; to lift up.
  Quotations
  What power is it which mounts my love so high?
  c. 1604–1605 (date written), William Shakespeare, “All’s Well, that Ends Well”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act I, scene i]
5. (transitive, martial arts) To sit on a combatants torso with the face pointing towards the opponent's head; to assume the mount position in ground grappling.
6. (intransitive, rare) To rise on high; to go up; to be upraised or uplifted; to tower aloft; to ascend; often with up.
  Quotations
  Though Babylon ſhould mount vp to heauen, and though ſhee ſhould fortifie the height of her ſtrength, yet from me ſhall ſpoilers come vnto her, ſaith the Lord.
  1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], Jeremiah 51:53, column 1
  The fire of trees and houses mounts on high.
  1656, Abraham Cowley, Davideis
  I was at the Mathematical School, where the Maſter taught his Pupils after a Method ſcarce imaginable to us in Europe. The Propoſition and Demonſtration were fairly written on a thin Wafer, with Ink compoſed of a Cephalick Tincture. This the Student was to ſwallow upon a faſting Stomach, and for three days following eat nothing but Bread and Water. As the Wafer digeſted, the Tincture mounted to his Brain, bearing the Propoſition along with it.
  1726 October 28, [Jonathan Swift], “The Author Permitted to See the Grand Academy of Lagado. […]”, in Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. […] [Gulliver’s Travels], volume II, London: […] Benj[amin] Motte, […], part III (A Voyage to Laputa, Balnibarbi, Glubbdubdribb, Luggnagg, and Japan), page 78
7. (transitive) To attach (an object) to a support, backing, framework etc.
  Quotations
  But then I had the [massive] flintlock by me for protection. ¶ […] The linen-press and a chest on the top of it formed, however, a very good gun-carriage; and, thus mounted, aim could be taken out of the window at the old mare feeding in the meadow below by the brook, and a 'bead' could be drawn upon Molly, the dairymaid, kissing the fogger behind the hedge, […].
  1879, R[ichard] J[efferies], chapter 1, in The Amateur Poacher, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., […]
  “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.”
  1908, W[illiam] B[lair] M[orton] Ferguson, chapter IV, in Zollenstein, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company
  He spends his days flitting through the woods with his shot-gun and his butterfly-net, and his evenings in mounting the many specimens he has acquired.
  1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London, New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton
8. (transitive, computing) To attach (a drive or device) to the file system in order to make it available to the operating system.
  Quotations
  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
9. (intransitive, sometimes with up) To increase in quantity or intensity.
10. (obsolete) To attain in value; to amount (to).
  Quotations
  Bring then these blessings to a strict account,Make fair deductions, see to what they mount.
  1733, [Alexander Pope], An Essay on Man. […], (please specify |epistle=I to IV), London: Printed for J[ohn] Wilford, […]
11. (transitive) To get on top of (another) for the purpose of copulation.
  Quotations
  When God presented Lilith to Adam, Adam was overjoyed and enthusiastically set her on the ground and tried to mount her after the fashion of the animals; but Lilith protested and said: "Why should I be on the bottom and you on the top?"
  1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 16
12. (transitive) To have sexual intercourse with someone.
13. (transitive) To begin (a campaign, military assault, etc.); to launch.
  Quotations
  For Liverpool, their season will now be regarded as a relative disappointment after failure to add the FA Cup to the Carling Cup and not mounting a challenge to reach the Champions League places.
  2012 May 5, Phil McNulty, “Chelsea 2-1 Liverpool”, in BBC Sport
  Corals mount a two-stage response to heat stress, first bleaching and then dying. Some of the southernmost reefs, exposed to the hottest water, are already dead but those in slightly cooler locations have a better chance of survival and regeneration.
  2023 August 7, Clive Cookson, “Missing ice and bleached coral: the sudden warming of the oceans”, in Financial Times‎
14. (transitive, archaic) To deploy (cannon) for use.
15. (transitive) To prepare and arrange the scenery, furniture, etc. for use in (a play or production).
16. (cooking) To incorporate fat, especially butter, into (a dish, especially a sauce to finish it).

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