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单词 unmount
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unmountv.

Brit. /(ˌ)ʌnˈmaʊnt/, U.S. /ˌənˈmaʊnt/
Forms: see un- prefix2 and mount v.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: un- prefix2, mount v.
Etymology: < un- prefix2 + mount v. Compare earlier dismount v.
1.
a. transitive. To cause (a mounted soldier) to dismount. Obsolete.
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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.
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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.
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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).
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