(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.