(v. i.) To alight from a horse; to descend or get off, as a rider from his beast; as, the troops dismounted.
(v. t.) To throw or bring down from an elevation, place of honor and authority, or the like.
(v. t.) To throw or remove from a horse; to unhorse; as, the soldier dismounted his adversary.
(v. t.) To take down, or apart, as a machine.
(v. t.) To throw or remove from the carriage, or from that on which a thing is mounted; to break the carriage or wheels of, and render useless; to deprive of equipments or mountings; -- said esp. of artillery.
Example Sentences:
(1) A German journalist, who witnessed the attack during Bastille Day celebrations in the French coastal city, said he saw a motorcyclist dismount and try to enter the cabin but fall and end up under the wheels.
(2) A gunman had pulled up on an expensive motorbike with a big engine, dismounted and pulled out two high-calibre handguns.
(3) A significant finding was the increased frequency of acute injury seen at dismount.
(4) Dismounting of a stable implant is a very rare occurrence.
(5) The smallest of mistakes – a step backwards on her dismount – put the gold out of reach and there followed a nerve-racking wait as Tweddle watched the final two competitors – Aliya Mustafina and Gabby Douglas – to see if she would maintain a position in the top three.
(6) Impact forces during landing in dismounts from the horizontal bar onto regulation gymnastic mats and in jumping from a height of 0.45 m onto a hard surface were measured.
(7) We dismount and herd them into a pen, where Juan Manuel pins each one down, Sol moves in with the de-worming fluid, and I brand them with chalk.
(8) Lesions had a negligible effect upon the tendency to hold lordotic postures after the male dismounted.
(9) It was the "double double" – a new dismount added to impress the judges – that cost Tweddle in the end, a step backwards as she landed it earning her an all-important deduction.
(11) I'm one of those guys who sits for two weeks glued to every sport, suddenly an expert on South Korean archery, dissecting the subtleties of a gymnast's dismount, praising the oar work of a New Zealand rower.
(12) Tweddle stared at the scoreboard diffidently: 15.916 – she had dropped 0.3 points for her shaky dismount, but was in contention for a silver medal.
(13) Besides showing increased frequency and intensity of lordosis, animals treated with both 6-OHDA and AMT retained the lordotic posture significantly longer after the male dismounted than animals given either treatment alone or vehicle controls.
(14) Photograph: Tom Jenkins "It's the greatest sense of relief," McCoy said, finally dismounted and at the centre of a hubbub that lasted all through the next race and up to the off-time of the one after that.
(15) By his own admission he "messed up" his second run, misjudging his dismount from the rail at the top of the course and leaving him in the wrong position to maintain speed for the jumps lower down.
(16) The second one is a marking device worn by sexually aggressive animals which will stripe with colored ink the back of estrous animals as the marker animal mounts and dismounts.
(17) Gillian Weatherley was on duty on 19 September 2012, with PC Toby Rowland, when Mitchell tried to cycle through the gates and engaged in an argument with the officers when he was told to dismount and walk through.
(18) We stopped in a gully for a sandwich and I dismounted using the well-known technique of collapsing into friendly arms.
(19) It will be closed between midnight and 6am; cyclists will have to dismount to cross; banned activities include social gatherings, playing musical instruments, making a speech, scattering ashes, releasing balloons, flying kites and all forms of physical exercise other than jogging.
(20) Whitlock showed off rigidly straight body lines and when nailing his dismount, Smith was on his feet with the spectators.
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.