| 单词 | mount |
| 释义 | mount mount1 —mountable, adj. —mountless, adj. /mownt/, v.t. 1. to go up; climb; ascend: to mount stairs. 2. to get up on (a platform, a horse, etc.). 3. to set or place at an elevation: to mount a house on stilts. 4. to furnish with a horse or other animal for riding. 5. to set or place (a person) on horseback. 6. to organize, as an army. 7. to prepare and launch, as an attack or a campaign. 8. to raise or put into position for use, as a gun. 9. (of a fortress or warship) to have or carry (guns) in position for use. 10. to go or put on guard, as a sentry or watch. 11. to attach to or fix on or in a support, backing, setting, etc.: to mount a photograph; to mount a diamond in a ring. 12. to arrange for display: to mount a museum exhibit. 13. to provide (a play, musical comedy, opera, etc.) with scenery, costumes, and other equipment for production. 14. to prepare (an animal body or skeleton) as a specimen. 15. (of a male animal) to climb upon (a female) for copulation. 16. Micros. a. to prepare (a slide) for microscopic investigation. b. to prepare (a sample) for examination by a microscope, as by placing it on a slide. v.i. 17. to increase in amount or intensity (often fol. by up): The cost of all those small purchases mounts up. 18. to get up on the back of a horse or other animal for riding. 19. to rise or go to a higher position, level, degree, etc.; ascend. 20. to get up on something, as a platform. n. 21. the act or a manner of mounting. 22. a horse, other animal, or sometimes a vehicle, as a bicycle, used, provided, or available for riding. 23. an act or occasion of riding a horse, esp. in a race. 24. a support, backing, setting, or the like, on or in which something is, or is to be, mounted or fixed. 25. an ornamental metal piece applied to a piece of wooden furniture. 26. Micros. a prepared slide. 27. a distinctive metal feature on a sheath or scabbard, as a locket or chape. 28. Philately. hinge (def. 4). 29. Print. a wooden or metal block to which a plate is secured for printing. [1300-50; ME mounten < OF munter, monter < VL *montare, deriv. of L mont- (s. of mons) MOUNT2] Syn. 1. scale. See climb. 19. soar. 22. steed, charger, palfrey. Ant. 1, 19. descend. mount2 /mownt/, n. Chiefly Literary. a mountain: often used as part of a placename. [bef. 900; ME, OE munt < L mont- (s. of mons) mountain, hill] |
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