mount
attach to a support
How often you will meet it
Rank 2,152 of 71,295 words measured. It occurs 8,207 times across 175,177 chapters — 0.004% of every word in the library.
What it means
verb
- attach to a support They mounted the aerator on a floating
- go up or advance also: wax, climb, rise Sales were climbing after prices were lowered
- fix onto a backing, setting, or support mount slides for macroscopic analysis
- put up or launch mount a campaign against pornography
- get up on the back of also: hop on, mount up, get on, jump on, climb on, bestride mount a horse
- go upward with gradual or continuous progress also: climb, climb up, go up Did you ever climb up the hill behind your house?
mount in real books
Each sentence below was written by a published author and is taken from a different book in our library. Open one to read the passage it came from, with narration.
-
Later Greece feigned that the Cyclôpes dwelt near Mount Etna, in Sicily.
The Odyssey of Homer · 751? BCE-651? BCE Homer · Chapter 1
-
Once a year there was a festival on Mount Munch which all the Hyups attended.
The Magic of Oz · L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum · Chapter 1
-
Elemental mad ramping of ravening waters— Yet Christ on the Mount, and the dove in her nest!
John Marr and Other Poems · Herman Melville · Chapter 1
-
On Mount Ararat ten thousand are crucified, and at Cologne eleven thousand virgins are massacred by the Huns.
The Dream · Émile Zola · Chapter 1
-
Frome did not even turn his head as we drove by, and still in silence we began to mount the next slope.
Ethan Frome · Edith Wharton · Chapter 1