What's the difference between mount and straddle?

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.

Straddle


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To part the legs wide; to stand or to walk with the legs far apart.
  • (v. i.) To stand with the ends staggered; -- said of the spokes of a wagon wheel where they join the hub.
  • (v. t.) To place one leg on one side and the other on the other side of; to stand or sit astride of; as, to straddle a fence or a horse.
  • (n.) The act of standing, sitting, or walking, with the feet far apart.
  • (n.) The position, or the distance between the feet, of one who straddles; as, a wide straddle.
  • (n.) A stock option giving the holder the double privilege of a "put" and a "call," i. e., securing to the buyer of the option the right either to demand of the seller at a certain price, within a certain time, certain securities, or to require him to take at the same price, and within the same time, the same securities.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The militants have also seized a huge chunk of territory straddling the Iraq-Syria border, and have declared a self-styled caliphate in the territory they control.
  • (2) embed Even globe-straddling colossus Philip Morris International (PMI), owner of brands including Marlboro, has set its stall out for a “smoke-free” future, where nicotine addicts get their fix from vaping and other non-tobacco products.
  • (3) Eitan was born Rafael Kaminsky in the moshav of Tel Adashim near Nazareth, straddling the Jezreel Valley across from Megiddo, better known as Armageddon.
  • (4) Fourthly, the atrioventricular connection is determined as follows: (1) usual alignment, (2) criss-crossing, (3) straddling, (4) double inlet, and (5) unilateral atrioventricular valve atresia, by using an apical four-chamber echo view.
  • (5) For the first time even the relatively affluent will approach old age still straddled with mortgages, and still financially supporting adult children through paying for their education and housing.
  • (6) Some are retired, others straddle the uncertain worlds of petty trading, agriculture and seasonal migrant labour.
  • (7) All patients showed improvement after 4 weeks' treatment on either drug and of 12 parameters measured only two showed a statistically significant favour to phenylbutazone (intermalleolar straddle and intercondylar distance; both when pain first appeared).
  • (8) The n-bandlets straddle the midline glia and are known to produce most of the central neuroblasts.
  • (9) A heart is described with congenitally corrected transposition of the great arteries, normally positioned atria, and a straddling mitral valve.
  • (10) Most PV-immunoreactive (PV-IR) neurons were restricted to a 25 to 60 microns thick band straddling the border between lamina II and III.
  • (11) Third-world” Caernarfon, my local town when I was growing up, is straddled by two council estates: Ysgybor Goch and Maesincla.
  • (12) The elusive Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi , who on 29 June proclaimed a "caliphate" straddling Syria and Iraq, made his appeal in a sermon delivered on Friday, in the militant-held northern Iraqi city of Mosul.
  • (13) Mild reflux occurred in three patients in whom the stent tubes straddled the distal esophageal sphincter.
  • (14) A case of straddling tricuspid valve associated with VSD was presented, who was diagnosed as VSD with pulmonary hypertension but not diagnosed as straddling in preoperative state.
  • (15) Facebook Twitter Pinterest In a joint statement two of China’s most powerful political bodies, the central committee and state council, described the new city, which will straddle three counties about 100km southwest of Beijing, as “a strategy crucial for a millennium to come”.
  • (16) A fourth zebrin II+ compartment straddles the paravermian region (P4+).
  • (17) The germ for this beta 2-microglobulin-like domain is already found in the cell adhesion protein of the slime mold straddling the border between unicellular and multicellular eukaryotes.
  • (18) Ninety-seven percent of the dermoids were found in the temporal half of the globe; of these, 76 percent were in the inferolateral quadrant, straddling the corneoscleral limbus.
  • (19) With one foot in the underworld and the other in the entertainment business, he is straddling two camps and ultimately has two systems working in his favour.
  • (20) The downhill skiing here is never too hard, although there are a few black runs around the surrounding mountains, and the highest peak is La Dôle , at 1,677m, straddling the French-Swiss border.