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mount /maʊnt/ verb
mount noun [countable]
برگزار کردن، ترتیب دادن
کوه، تپه، محکم کردن، ثابت کردن، نصب کردن، قرار دادن، اسب مسابقه با سوار کار، مانت، پایه نصب، مقر، سوار کردن، بر پا کردن، سکو، سوار شدن، بلند شدن، زیادشدن، بالغ شدن، صعود کردن، نصب کردن، صعود، ترفیع، مقوای عکس، پایه، قاب عکس، مرکوب (اسب، دوچرخه و...)، مهندسی: پایه، ورزش: شروع حرکت روی وسیله ژیمناستیک، نظامی: سوار شدن، قله، برآمدگی
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Synonyms & Related Wordsmount[verb]Synonyms:- climb, ascend, clamber up, go up, scale
- bestride, climb onto, jump on
- increase, accumulate, build, escalate, grow, intensify, multiply, pile up, swell
[noun]Synonyms:- backing, base, frame, setting, stand, support
- horse, steed
(literary)
Antonyms: drop, dismount
Contrasted words: descend, fall, lower
Related Words: seat,
settle
English Thesaurus: mountain, hill, Mount, cliff, precipice, ... [TahlilGaran] English Synonym Dictionary ▲
English DictionaryI. mount1 /maʊnt/
verb[
Date: 1200-1300;
Language: Old French;
Origin: monter 'to go up', from Latin mons; ⇒ mount2]
1. ORGANIZE [transitive] to plan, organize, and begin an event or a course of action:
The National Gallery mounted an exhibition of Danish painting.mount a campaign/challenge/search etc
Friends of the Earth are mounting a campaign to monitor the illegal logging of trees.mount an assault/attack
Guerrillas have mounted an attack on the capital.2. INCREASE [intransitive usually in progressive] to increase gradually in amount or degree:
Tension here is mounting, as we await the final result.
Casualties on both sides of the battle have continued to mount.3. HORSE/BICYCLE [intransitive and transitive] formal to get on a horse or bicycle
Antonym : dismount:
He mounted his horse and rode on.4. GO UP [transitive] formal to go up a step or stairs:
He mounted the stairs and looked around him slowly.
A car suddenly mounted the pavement to avoid a vehicle coming in the opposite direction.5. PICTURE [transitive] to fix a picture to a larger piece of stiff paper so that it looks more attractive
mount something on/onto something
Entries to the photography competition should be mounted on white paper.6. SEX [transitive] technical if a male animal mounts a female animal, he gets up onto her back to have sex ⇒
mountedmount up phrasal verb to gradually increase in amount:
At £6 a ticket, the cost quickly mounts up. [TahlilGaran] Dictionary of Contemporary English ▲
II. mount2 noun [countable][
Sense 1,4: Date: 800-900;
Language: Old French;
Origin: mont, from Latin mons 'mountain']
[
Sense 2-3: Date: 1300-1400;
Origin: ⇒ mount1]
1. Mount (
written abbreviation Mt) used as part of the name of a mountain:
Mount Everest2. formal a horse that you ride on
3. stiff paper that is put behind or around a picture so that it looks more attractive
4. literary a mountain
[TahlilGaran] Dictionary of Contemporary English ▲
Collocationsmount verbI. organize sth ADV. successfully The company successfully mounted a takeover bid in 1996. [TahlilGaran] Collocations Dictionary ▲
mount II. increase ADV. quickly, rapidly | steadily | gradually | hourly Election fever is mounting hourly.
up The cost quickly mounts up. VERB + MOUNT begin to, continue to [TahlilGaran] Collocations Dictionary ▲
mount III. picture/jewel, etc. ADV. beautifully The prints were beautifully mounted.
carefully | directly The switch is mounted directly on the wall.
horizontally, vertically PREP. in The diamond is mounted in gold.
on The specimens were carefully mounted on slides. [TahlilGaran] Collocations Dictionary ▲
Thesaurusmountain a very high hill:
the highest mountain in Austriahill an area of land that is higher than the land around it, which is like a mountain but smaller and usually has a rounded top:
We went for a walk in the hills.
The house is surrounded by woods, farmland and gentle hills.Mount (
also Mt written abbreviation) used in the names of mountains. Don’t say ‘Fuji Mountain’ – say
‘Mount Fuji’:
Mount Everestcliff the steep side of an area of land, often next to the sea:
the white cliffs of Doverprecipice especially literary a very steep and dangerous cliff:
They were standing on the edge of a precipice.crag a high steep rock or mountain:
An eagle sailed over the high crags.ridge a long narrow area of high ground, especially at the top of a mountain:
I could see a group of climbers high up on a ridge.knoll a small round hill:
a grassy knollvolcano a mountain with a large hole at the top, through which
lava (=hot liquid rock) is sometimes forced out:
the eruption of a volcanosummit the very highest point of a mountain:
the summit of Mt Everestpeak especially literary the top of a mountain:
the snow-covered peaks of the Himalayas
a distant peakrange/chain a group of mountains or hills arranged in a line:
the mountain range that is part of the border between Norway and Swedenfoothills a group of smaller hills below a range of high mountains:
the Sierra foothills [TahlilGaran] English Thesaurus ▲