What's the difference between device and mount?

Device


Definition:

  • (n.) That which is devised, or formed by design; a contrivance; an invention; a project; a scheme; often, a scheme to deceive; a stratagem; an artifice.
  • (n.) Power of devising; invention; contrivance.
  • (n.) An emblematic design, generally consisting of one or more figures with a motto, used apart from heraldic bearings to denote the historical situation, the ambition, or the desire of the person adopting it. See Cognizance.
  • (n.) Improperly, an heraldic bearing.
  • (n.) Anything fancifully conceived.
  • (n.) A spectacle or show.
  • (n.) Opinion; decision.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Thirty-two patients (10 male, 22 female; age 37-82 years) undergoing maintenance haemodialysis or haemofiltration were studied by means of Holter device capable of simultaneously analysing rhythm and ST-changes in three leads.
  • (2) The reason for the rise in Android's market share on both sides of the Atlantic is the increased number of devices that use the software.
  • (3) Core biopsy with computed tomography (CT) or ultrasound (US) guidance may be such an alternative, particularly when a spring-loaded firing device is used.
  • (4) Socially acceptable urinary control was achieved in 90 per cent of the 139 patients with active devices in place.
  • (5) Good fixation was obtained in 4 cases using Steffee's devices.
  • (6) The image was altered in the expected way, which means that the device is suitable for investigating the possibilities of different filters to improve the diagnostic ability.
  • (7) Streaming is shown to occur in water in the focused beams produced by a number of medical pulse-echo devices.
  • (8) A device allowing pressure to be applied to a local skin site where the skin blood flow is followed using laser Doppler flowmetry is described.
  • (9) While there has been almost no political reform during their terms of office, there have been several ambitious steps forward in terms of environmental policy: anti-desertification campaigns; tree planting; an environmental transparency law; adoption of carbon targets; eco-services compensation; eco accounting; caps on water; lower economic growth targets; the 12th Five-Year Plan; debate and increased monitoring of PM2.5 [fine particulate matter] and huge investments in eco-cities, "clean car" manufacturing, public transport, energy-saving devices and renewable technology.
  • (10) The Nd-Yag-Laser seems to be a useful device in transsphenoidal surgery due to its potent coagulation effect and comfortable handling.
  • (11) However, localizing a functional region with PET has been severely limited by the poor resolving properties of PET devices.
  • (12) The devices worked as well on postphlebitic legs as on normal ones.
  • (13) Ten patients have undergone abdominal proctocolectomy with the formation of an ileal reservoir anastomosed onto the anal canal using a stapling device.
  • (14) The lack of pedestrian crossing devices, crosswalks, or sidewalks, however, was not associated with an increased risk.
  • (15) He added that 45% of traffic to Local World's extensive portfolio of websites – 76 newspaper sites, 26 This is … sites and 400 hyper local sites – comes from mobile devices.
  • (16) The latter animals were raised in an automated feeding device (Autosow) with an artificial diet simulating the nutritional composition of sow milk.
  • (17) "Android’s gain came mainly at the expense of BlackBerry, which saw its global smartphone share dip from 4 percent to 1 percent in the past year due to a weak line-up of BB10 devices," said Strategy Analytics' senior analyst Scott Bicheno.
  • (18) The authors consider that this device increases safety during this potentially hazardous procedure by eliminating the flammable polyvinyl chloride endotracheal tube and cottonoid packings most frequently used during this procedure.
  • (19) A training device is used in conjunction with an exercise program to teach muscle control for retention of a mandibular denture.
  • (20) We also used an optical device to stabilize images of the real world upon the retina.

Mount


Definition:

  • (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, Mount Washington; otherwise, chiefly in poetry.
  • (v.) A bulwark for offense or defense; a mound.
  • (v.) A bank; a fund.
  • (n.) To rise on high; to go up; to be upraised or uplifted; to tower aloft; to ascend; -- often with up.
  • (n.) To get up on anything, as a platform or scaffold; especially, to seat one's self on a horse for riding.
  • (n.) To attain in value; to amount.
  • (v. t.) To get upon; to ascend; to climb.
  • (v. t.) To place one's self on, as a horse or other animal, or anything that one sits upon; to bestride.
  • (v. t.) To cause to mount; to put on horseback; to furnish with animals for riding; to furnish with horses.
  • (v. t.) 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.
  • (v. t.) To raise aloft; to lift on high.
  • (v.) That upon which a person or thing is mounted
  • (v.) A horse.
  • (v.) The cardboard or cloth on which a drawing, photograph, or the like is mounted; a mounting.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Until his return to Brazil in 1985, Niemeyer worked in Israel, France and north Africa, designing among other buildings the University of Haifa on Mount Carmel; the campus of Constantine University in Algeria (now known as Mentouri University); the offices of the French Communist party and their newspaper l'Humanité in Paris; and the ministry of external relations and the cathedral in Brasilia.
  • (2) The first method used an accelerometer mounted between the teeth of one of the authors (PR) to record skeletal shock.
  • (3) Heart rates were obtained simultaneously from FM radio transmitters and heart rate monitors externally mounted on unanesthetized and unrestrained mixed-breed goats.
  • (4) Silvio Berlusconi's government is battling to stay in the eurozone against mounting odds – not least the country's mountain of state debt, which is the largest in the single currency area.
  • (5) Perfused or immersion-fixed epithalamic tissues, sectioned, and mounted on glass slides were processed through the avidin-biotin immunofluorescence method.
  • (6) "You have three million people coming in from all over the world who could potentially carry a novel pathogen home with them," says Mounts.
  • (7) said Wanis Kilani, a uniformed rebel driving a pickup truck with a machine-gun mounted on the back.
  • (8) H-2b mice primed with the wildtype of vesicular stomatitis virus serotype Indiana (VSV-IND wt) mount an in vitro measurable cytotoxic response against the nucleoprotein (NP) of VSV-IND and are protected against a challenge infection with a vaccinia-VSV recombinant virus expressing the NP of VSV-IND (vacc-IND-NP).
  • (9) On dissected mucosa stained by the PAS-alcian blue whole-mount method the density and distribution of goblet cells in various parts of the middle ear was determined in 13 children, ranging in age from 9 days to 14 years.
  • (10) Luciferase activity was monitored quantitatively, and the protein was immunolocalized in whole-mount embryonic brains.
  • (11) They had mounted a vigorous lobbying campaign, both in public and behind the scenes, since the legislation first came to light this month .
  • (12) The problem for Labour is that, to mount an effective challenge to the ascendant Conservative party, they must first come to some agreement about why they are losing.
  • (13) Corneas of bullfrog (Rana catesbeiana) were mounted between lucite chambers.
  • (14) The announcement comes amid mounting frustration in the international community over Israel’s continued settlement activity, regarded by many countries as illegal.
  • (15) He was accused of disrespecting the FA Cup with such a weakened team but he mounted a strong defence, referencing the club’s seven injuries that have left him with only 13 fit senior outfield players.
  • (16) The surface mount electronic internal controller provides motor commutator, energy management, telemetry, and physiologic control functions.
  • (17) The preparation was mounted in an organ bath and superfused with Tyrode solution containing hemicholinium-3 and eserine.
  • (18) Neovascular responses were evaluated by daily slit-lamp observations and terminal whole-mount and histologic examinations of colloidal carbon-perfused vessels.
  • (19) The scheme is available to those who have one or more of the following technologies: solar PV panels (roof-mounted or stand alone), wind turbines (building mounted or free standing), hydroelectricity, anaerobic digestion (generating electricity from food waste), and micro combined heat and power (through the use of new types of boilers , for example).
  • (20) Eighty-eight percent of subjects receiving CVD 103-HgR mounted a significant (greater than fourfold) rise in Inaba vibriocidal titre while 68% did so for the heterologous Ogawa serotype.