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Mounting

noun

An event that involves rising to a higher point (as in altitude or temperature or intensity etc.). Synonyms: climb, climbing.

Framework used for support or display.

Mount

verb

(past & past part. mounted; pres. part. mounting)

Attach to a support.

Go up or advance. Synonyms: climb, rise, wax. Antonym: wane.

Fix onto a backing, setting, or support.

Put up or launch.

Get up on the back of. Synonyms: bestride, climb on, get on, hop on, jump on, mount up. Antonym: hop out.

Go upward with gradual or continuous progress. Synonyms: climb, climb up, go up.

Prepare and supply with the necessary equipment for execution or performance. Synonym: put on. "Mount an attack" , "Mount a play"

Copulate with. Synonym: ride.

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"Mounting" Quotes from Famous Books

... call them brigands?" brusquely responded Marianita. "Because they hate the Spaniards, whose pure blood runs in our veins; and because," continued she—the impetuous Creole blood mounting to her cheek—"because ...

— The Tiger Hunter • Mayne Reid

... work on the farm, in his right hand, he led the mare quietly down the path, out through the gate, and into the road. Gathering the reins in his left hand, without giving her time to conjecture his object—for mounting her was no easy task—he jumped lightly into the saddle, and screwed his knees into her sides ...

— Sword and Pen - Ventures and Adventures of Willard Glazier • John Algernon Owens

... in slipping away at the rear unperceived amid the din and smoke, and ran to where our horses had been tied. Mounting, like squirrels, we went off like the wind in the direction of the open prairie, and soon left our little fortress far behind us, with the redskins and the pale-faces fighting on the top ...

— The Big Otter • R.M. Ballantyne

... voices of the muleteers answering each other, or encouraging their beasts with a kind of rude song, completed the scene. The evening was fine, and the star-light lovely: we embarked in two shore boats at the custom-house gate, and, after being duly hailed by the guard-boat, a strange machine mounting one old rusty 6 lb. carronade, we reached the ...

— Journal of a Voyage to Brazil - And Residence There During Part of the Years 1821, 1822, 1823 • Maria Graham

... then dressed in all the congenial horrors of savage sublimity.—No one, a stranger to the sea-coast, would imagine how awfully the surges lash the stony beach in tempestuous weather: the high-curling waves break with a deafening roar, and mounting the lofty cliffs in sheets of dazzling foam, are wafted in misty clouds half over the island—even to Newport, where the windows facing the south are occasionally dimmed with the saline vapors, ...

— Brannon's Picture of The Isle of Wight • George Brannon

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