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Webster 1913 Edition
Dismount
Dis-mount′
,Verb.
I.
[
imp. & p. p.
Dismounted
; p. pr. & vb. n.
Dismounting
.] [Pref.
dis-
+ mount
: cf. OF. desmonter
, F. démonter
.] 1.
To come down; to descend.
[Poetic]
But now the bright sun ginneth to
dismount
. Spenser.
2.
To alight from a horse; to descend or get off, as a rider from his beast;
as, the troops
. dismounted
Dis-mount′
,Verb.
T.
1.
To throw or bring down from an elevation, place of honor and authority, or the like.
Dismounted
from his authority. Barrow.
2.
To throw or remove from a horse; to unhorse;
as, the soldier
. dismounted
his adversary3.
(Mech.)
To take down, or apart, as a machine.
4.
To throw or remove from the carriage, or from that on which a thing is mounted; to break the carriage or wheels of, and render useless; to deprive of equipments or mountings; – said esp. of artillery.
Webster 1828 Edition
Dismount
DISMOUNT
,Verb.
I.
1.
To alight from a horse; to descend or get off, as a rider from a beast; as, the officer ordered his troops to dismount.2.
To descend from an elevation.DISMOUNT
,Verb.
T.
1.
To throw or remove from a horse; to unhorse; as, the soldier dismounted his adversary.2.
To throw or bring down from any elevation.3.
To throw or remove cannon or other artillery from their carriages; or to break the carriages or wheels, and render guns useless.Definition 2024
dismount
dismount
English
Noun
dismount (plural dismounts)
- (gymnastics) The part of a routine in which the gymnast detaches from an apparatus.
- A stylish routine, let down by a sloppy dismount.
Translations
part of gymnastics routine
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Verb
dismount (third-person singular simple present dismounts, present participle dismounting, simple past and past participle dismounted)
- (transitive, intransitive) to get off (something)
- She carefully dismounted from the horse.
- 2012, July 15. Richard Williams in Guardian Unlimited, Tour de France 2012: Carpet tacks cannot force Bradley Wiggins off track
- Cadel Evans was the first to suffer, quickly dismounting and waiting to take a bike from one of his BMC Racing team-mates, only to discover that the first of them had also punctured.
- (computing, transitive) to make a mounted drive unavailable for use
- The VMS operator tried to dismount the Unix hard drive with the DISMOUNT DISK$NFSMOUNT command, instead of umount /mnt/nfshome.
- To come down; to descend.
- Spenser
- But now the bright sun ginneth to dismount.
- Spenser
Translations
to get off
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to remove (something) from its support
to come down; to descend
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