mount


Definition: Meaning of, mount in English to English dictionary.

Pronunciation: / maʊnt /

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Prsesent Past Past Participle
mount mounted mounted
Present Participle Third Person Singular
mounting mounts
  1. organize [transitive] to plan, organize, and begin an event or a course of action
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  2. increase [intransitive usually in progressive] to increase gradually in amount or degree
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  3. horse/bicycle [intransitive and transitive] formal to get on a horse or bicycle
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  4. go up [transitive] formal to go up a step or stairs
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  5. picture [transitive] to fix a picture to a larger piece of stiff paper so that it looks more attractive
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  6. sex [transitive] technical if a male animal mounts a female animal, he gets up onto her back to have sex
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Singular Plural
mount mounts
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  1. Mount used as part of the name of a mountain
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  2. formal a horse that you ride on
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  3. stiff paper that is put behind or around a picture so that it looks more attractive
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  4. literary a mountain
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mount used in phrases

  • Ararat, Mount
    1. a mountain in eastern Turkey which, according to the Old Testament of the Bible, is where Noah's ARK first reached land after the great flood
  • Erebus, Mount
    1. a mountain that is an active VOLCANO on Ross Island in Antarctica
  • Fuji, Mount
    1. a VOLCANO, about 100 km southwest of Tokyo, which is the highest mountain in Japan. Its top has the shape of a perfect CONE .
  • Godwin-Austen, Mount
  • Kenya, Mount
    1. a mountain that is an inactive VOLCANO in central Kenya
  • Logan, Mount
    1. the highest mountain in Canada, in the southwest Yukon
  • McKinley, Mount
  • Mount Adams (noun)
    1. 12,307 feet high a mountain peak in southwestern Washington in the Cascade Range
  • Mount Ararat
  • Mount Asama (noun)
    1. 8,340 feet a volcano in central Honshu near Nagano; one of the largest volcanoes in Japan
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mount used in phrasal verbs

  • mount up (phrasal verb)
    1. to get much larger
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