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Mounting   /mˈaʊntɪŋ/   Listen
noun
Mounting  n.  
1.
The act of one that mounts.
2.
That by which anything is prepared for use, or set off to advantage; equipment; embellishment; setting; as, the mounting of a sword or diamond.
3.
(Aeronautics) Same as Carriage.


verb
Mount  v. t.  
1.
To get upon; to ascend; to climb; as, to mount the pulpit and deliver a sermon. "Shall we mount again the rural throne?"
2.
To place one's self on, as a horse or other animal, or anything that one sits upon; to bestride.
3.
To cause to mount; to put on horseback; to furnish with animals for riding; to furnish with horses. "To mount the Trojan troop."
4.
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.; as, to mount a picture or diploma in a frame
5.
To raise aloft; to lift on high. "What power is it which mounts my love so high?" Note: A fort or ship is said to mount cannon, when it has them arranged for use in or about it.
To mount guard (Mil.), to go on guard; to march on guard; to do duty as a guard.
To mount a play, to prepare and arrange the scenery, furniture, etc., used in the play.


Mount  v. i.  (past & past part. mounted; pres. part. mounting)  
1.
To rise on high; to go up; to be upraised or uplifted; to tower aloft; to ascend; often with up. "Though Babylon should mount up to heaven." "The fire of trees and houses mounts on high."
2.
To get up on anything, as a platform or scaffold; especially, to seat one's self on a horse for riding.
3.
To attain in value; to amount. "Bring then these blessings to a strict account, Make fair deductions, see to what they mount."





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... the economy and significant progress in curtailing guerrilla activity. Nevertheless, the president's increasing reliance on authoritarian measures and an economic slump in the late 1990s generated mounting dissatisfaction with his regime, which led to his ouster in 2000. A caretaker government oversaw new elections in the spring of 2001, which ushered in Alejandro TOLEDO as the new head of government - Peru's ...
— The 2007 CIA World Factbook • United States
... a vacuum is obtained in the ordinary way, while the testing and finishing details present nothing of special interest. The finished lamp is then photometrically tested, and placed on a support something like the Edison mounting. Upon it are engraved the working constants. As an ordinary practical result, these lamps, working with 50 volts and 1.15 amperes, give a luminous intensity of 20 candles, or the equivalent in luminous spherical intensity ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 488, May 9, 1885 • Various
... dealers, and from his few discriminating private patrons, works which had but recently left his studio and could still be traced; to utilize all the hours of daylight accorded to him by a grudging season for finishing, mounting, and retouching. ...
— A Comedy of Masks - A Novel • Ernest Dowson and Arthur Moore
... to obtain stock to mount Colonel Streight's command, I took horses and mules from my teams and mounted infantry, and furnished him some six hundred head, mounting all but two hundred of his men. I also turned over all my hard bread, some ten thousand rations, and he left me at midnight on the 26th instant, with the intention of going through Russellville, Moulton, and Blountsville, to Gadsden, then divide, one force to strike Rome ...
— The Battle of Atlanta - and Other Campaigns, Addresses, Etc. • Grenville M. Dodge
... corner of Balthazar Valori's garden near the northern border of Tuscany. The garden is walled. There is a shrine in the wall: the tortured figure upon the crucifix is conspicuous. To the right stands a rather high-backed stone bench: by mounting from the seat to the top of the bench it is possible to scale the wall. To the left a crimson pennant on a pole shows against the sky. The period is 1533, and a few miles southward the Florentines, after three years of formally recognizing Jesus Christ as the sole lord and king of Florence, have ...
— The Jewel Merchants - A Comedy In One Act • James Branch Cabell


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