Australian English Meaning of mount
mount
Other Australian English words related to mount
Nearest Words of mount
- mount adams => Mount Adams
- mount ararat => Mount Ararat
- mount asama => Mount Asama
- mount athos => Mount Athos
- mount bartle frere => Mount Bartle Frere
- mount carmel => Mount Carmel
- mount communism => Mount Communism
- mount cook lily => Mount Cook lily
- mount elbert => Mount Elbert
- mount etna => Mount Etna
Definitions and Meaning of mount in English
mount (n)
a lightweight horse kept for riding only
the act of climbing something
a land mass that projects well above its surroundings; higher than a hill
a mounting consisting of a piece of metal (as in a ring or other jewelry) that holds a gem in place
something forming a back that is added for strengthening
mount (v)
attach to a support
go up or advance
fix onto a backing, setting, or support
put up or launch
get up on the back of
go upward with gradual or continuous progress
prepare and supply with the necessary equipment for execution or performance
copulate with
mount (v.)
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.
A bulwark for offense or defense; a mound.
A bank; a fund.
That upon which a person or thing is mounted
A horse.
The cardboard or cloth on which a drawing, photograph, or the like is mounted; a mounting.
mount (n.)
To rise on high; to go up; to be upraised or uplifted; to tower aloft; to ascend; -- often with up.
To get up on anything, as a platform or scaffold; especially, to seat one's self on a horse for riding.
To attain in value; to amount.
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.
mount (v. t.)
To get upon; to ascend; to climb.
To place one's self on, as a horse or other animal, or anything that one sits upon; to bestride.
To cause to mount; to put on horseback; to furnish with animals for riding; to furnish with horses.
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.
To raise aloft; to lift on high.
FAQs About the word mount
mount
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mounding => mound, mounded over => mounded over, mounded => mounded, mound-bird => Moundbird, mound over => mound over,
