单词 | unmount |
释义 | unmountv. 1. ΚΠ 1612 I. M. tr. Most Famous Hist. Meruine ii. ix. 269 Many times was the Emperour remounted and vnmounted [Fr. fut remonté par ses gens], so infinitie couragious were the foure brethren. 1647 A. Pigot Full Relation Taking of Roche Castle 4 Sir William Bridges..and other horse Officers, cheerfully offered to unmount their men, and joyn with the Foot in storming the place. b. transitive. To dismount from (a horse or other animal). Also intransitive. Now somewhat rare. ΘΚΠ society > travel > transport > riding on horse (or other animal) > ride a horse (or other animal) [verb (intransitive)] > dismount lighteOE alightOE falla1300 avoid1485 demountc1540 elight1542 descend1548 avale1590 dismount1594 alighten1600 unlight1623 unhorse1633 unmount1655 to get off1688 society > travel > transport > riding on horse (or other animal) > ride (a horse or other animal) [verb (transitive)] > dismount from void1470 avoid1557 unstride1635 dismount1638 to get off ——1652 unmount1892 1655 Markham's Perfect Horseman 22 Alight from his back, then mount & unmount twice or thrice together. 1728 E. Chambers Cycl. at Vault Vault is also used for the Manages practis'd on the wooden Horse, to learn to mount and unmount with Ease and Expedition. 1787 Generous Attachment II. 131 I immediately unmounted, and giving my horse his liberty, wandered about the country. 1892 Schoolmaster 26 Mar. 519/2 The German Emperor has had to unmount his high horse, and abandon the..Education Bill. 1916 H. W. Shoemaker Juniata Memories ii. 20 He unmounted gracefully, quickly tying the big horse to an upright root of the pine-stump fence. 2. transitive. To undo the action of mounting (in various senses of mount v. IV.); to take down or remove from a mount. ΘΚΠ the world > space > place > removal or displacement > remove or displace [verb (transitive)] > unfix unloose?a1425 unfix1600 unmounta1680 strike1793 a1680 S. Butler Genuine Remains (1759) I. 23 Others conceiv'd it much more fit T' unmount the Tube, and open it. 1768 J. Cremer Jrnl. 27 Jan. in R. R. Bellamy Ramblin' Jack (1936) 95 Our Swifells we unmounted off the quarter-deck, and fixed in Two parts, abaft, in the Cabin. 1793 Edinb. Mag. Sept. 228/2 Unless the thief have had the precaution to unmount your jewels we shall recover them. 1852 Colburn's United Service Mag. Sept. 13 To unmount and mount the percussion infantry musket. 1885 C. G. W. Lock Workshop Receipts 4th Ser. 397/1 If the print be a mounted one, it is by no means necessary to unmount it previously to treatment. 1920 N. W. Putnam It pays to Smile xv. 233 He took the original [painting]..out of the frame and upstairs, where he unmounted it. 1989 Infoworld 1 May s9/1 HD Partition lets you create, mount, unmount, and delete volumes. 2003 Age (Melbourne) (Nexis) 12 June (Green Guide section) 12 You have to mount the iPod as a firewire drive, which forces you to be careful to unmount it manually. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < v.1612 |
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