(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.
Tripod
Definition:
(n.) Any utensil or vessel, as a stool, table, altar, caldron, etc., supported on three feet.
(n.) A three-legged frame or stand, usually jointed at top, for supporting a theodolite, compass, telescope, camera, or other instrument.
Example Sentences:
(1) This unilateral destabilization effectively removes one leg of the tripod, rendering that intervertebral joint potentially unstable.
(2) Earlier this month residents in Broughton, an affluent village in Buckinghamshire, formed a human chain to block a Google car, with a tripod-mounted camera on its roof.
(3) CAT scanning, arteriography of the Celiac tripod and closed hepatic needle biopsy appear to be much less decisive.
(4) Every publisher has an army of PR people who try to keep all the demos and interviews to a tight schedule, but that always falls apart within the first three hours, and then everything is chaos and camera tripods.
(5) Policymakers must aim for a "zero tripod" of separate but interdependent objectives: tackle chronic poverty; stop impoverishment; and sustain poverty escapes, the report says.
(6) Trabeculectomy for primary glaucoma was successfully combined with extracapsular lens extraction and insertion of a Pearce tripod posterior chamber lens in seven eyes of five patients.
(7) Angiography of the coeliac tripod and superior mesenteric showed the existence of a post-operative hepatopetal flow in 80% of porta-cava cases.
(8) A camera stands on a tripod with nothing much to film.
(9) The importance to proportionate stability to restoring teeth is analyzed and it is described and original and simple process to obtain tripod like supports to the occlusal restorations that affect areas of intercuspal contact, what proportionate certain clinical advantages.
(10) It was found that about 70% of molecules in the IgG1 Van specimen are not flat but have a tripod-like shape.
(11) A monkey only pressed a button of a camera set up on a tripod – a tripod I positioned and held throughout the shoot.” Last year, as the dispute simmered, Slater offered copies of a “monkey selfie” photo to purchasers willing to pay only for shipping and handling, and said he would donate $1.70 from each order to a conservation project dedicated to protecting Sulawesi’s macaques.
(12) Googlers, Story Cycle employees and Apa Sherpa spent about 11 days on the move last March, using the tripod cameras and fisheye lenses to shoot inside monasteries, schools, clinics,” said Raleigh Seamster, programme manager for Google Earth Outreach.
(13) The possible contribution of arteriography of the coeliac tripod to lymphoma staging is discussed with special regard to the demonstration of spleen and liver involvement; as regards the former, caution is advised owing to the chance of errors of interpretation; as for the latter, mention is made of the possibility of demonstrating infiltrations of the liver and stenosis of the hepatic artery due to lymphnode involvement that cannot be shown up by laparotomy.
(14) Slater has argued that he owns the copyright to the photo because although the female macaque in the picture stole the camera and took the selfie, he set up a camera on a tripod in the Indonesian forest with the correct lighting before letting the monkeys press the buttons on it after three days with them.
(15) The relationship was identical in 111 patients who had extracapsular extraction and a Pearce tripod posterior chamber intraocular lens and in 50 patients who had intracapsular extraction with spectacle correction.
(16) Radiologic revascularization procedures--i.e., percutaneous transluminal angioplasty (PTA) and fibrinolysis--are a valuable alternative to surgery in the treatment of stenoses and occlusions of the visceral vessels, that is the celiac tripod and the superior and inferior mesenteric arteries.
(17) In forty hands of thirty-three patients with post-traumatic quadriplegia and cord lesions higher than those usually thought to be benefited by reconstructive surgery, three or more procedures were performed at one or more sittings to create an active wrist extensor and a thumb flexor grip, a function easier to provide and much more useful to these patients than tripod pinch.
(18) Two model constructs of the lumbar interbody fusion, the tripod concept and flagpole concept, are presented.
(19) A color transparency of each pallor map was then obtained from the television monitor of the Optic Nerve Head Analyzer, using a camera mounted on a tripod at a fixed distance from the screen.
(20) The paper leaf gauge is narrower and more solid than the plastic leaf gauge and thus forms a better anterior leg of the tripod with the two condyles on patient-guided terminal hinge closures.