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Look up: Mount


  1. mount
    (file system) To make a file system available for access. Unix does this by associating the file system with a directory (the 'mount point') within a currently mounted file system. The 'root' file system is mounted on the root directory, '/' early in the boot sequence. 'mount' is also the Unix com...
    Found op http://foldoc.org/mount

  2. Mount
    [streaming] A mount point, in streaming media systems, is a virtual resource which references live or on-demand content within a multimedia media server system. Mount points are used to allow multimedia servers the ability to control multiple content sources and/or types on the same server i...
    Found op http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_(streaming)

  3. Mount
    [computing] Mounting takes place before a computer can use any kind of storage device (such as a hard drive, CD-ROM, or network share). The user or their operating system must make it accessible through the computer`s file system. A user can only access files on mounted media. == Mount point...
    Found op http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_(computing)

  4. Mount
    In heraldry, a mount is a representation of a mound or hill covered with grass and occupying the bottom or base of the shield. It is usually represented as bearing a tree. When depicted in green it is called a mount-vert.
    Found op http://www.probertencyclopaedia.com/browse/UM.HTM

  5. Mount
    [grappling] The mount, or mounted position, is a dominant ground grappling position, where one combatant sits on the other combatants torso with the face pointing towards the opponent`s head. This is very favourable for the top combatant in several ways. The top combatant can generate consid...
    Found op http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_(grappling)

  6. Mount
    [Unix] The Unix command line utility mount instructs the operating system that a file system is ready to use, and associates it with a particular point in the system`s file system hierarchy (its mount point). The counterpart umount instructs the operating system that the file system should b...
    Found op http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_(Unix)

  7. mount
    [Verb] To start. To organise, prepare and set in motion.
    Example: The village is mounting a pantomime this year.
    Found op http://www.bbc.co.uk/skillswise/glossary/

  8. mount
    [n] - mounting consisting of a piece of metal (as in a ring or other jewelry) that holds a gem in place 2. [v] - prepare and supply with the necessary equipment for execution or performance 3. [v] - put up 4. [v] - attach to a support 5. [v] - fix onto a backing, setting, or s...
    Found op http://www.webdictionary.co.uk/definition.php?query=mount

  9. Mount
    To adhere a photograph, embellishment or other item to another piece of paper.
    Found op http://www.scrapdirectory.co.uk/scrapbook-pages-glossary.htm

  10. Mount
    The mechanical device that connects the telescope to its tripod and allows the telescope to move freely. The commonest types of mount are the 'altazimuth' and the 'equatorial'
    Found op http://www.irpoyser.co.uk/glossary.php

  11. Mount
    See also MAT (353) A piece of card upon which a drawing or other work is supported
    Found op http://www.ifla.org/VII/s30/pub/mg1.htm#5

  12. Mount
    an artificial hill or mound. In Tudor times these were designed to act in lieu of a watch tower. It was found that they also afforded picturesque views across the garden, particularly the intricate elements such as the knot gardens, and also over the parkland as a whole. Banqueting houses...
    Found op http://www.encyclo.co.uk/local/20935



  1. Mount
    Mount noun (Palmistry) Any one of seven fleshy prominences in the palm of the hand which are taken as significant of the influence of 'planets,' and called the mounts of Jupiter, Mars, Mercury, the Moon, Saturn, the Sun or Apollo, and Venus. ...
    Found op http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/M/107

  2. Mount
    Mount (mount) noun [ Middle English munt , mont , mount , Anglo-Saxon munt , from Latin mons , montis ; confer Latin minae protections, English eminent , menace : confer French mont
    Found op http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/M/107

  3. Mount
    Mount intransitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Mounted ; present participle & verbal noun Mounting .] [ Middle English mounten , monten , French monter , from ...
    Found op http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/M/107

  4. Mount
    Mount transitive verb 1. To get upon; to ascend; to climb. « Shall we mount again the rural throne?» Dryden. 2. To place one's self on, as a horse or other animal, or anything that one sits upon; to bestride....
    Found op http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/M/107

  5. Mount
    Mount noun [ From Mount , v. ] That upon which a person or thing is mounted , as: (a) A horse. « She had so good a seat and hand, she might be trusted with any mount .» G. Eliot. (b...
    Found op http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/M/107

  6. mount
    1. A mass of earth, or earth and rock, rising considerably above the common surface of the surrounding land; a mountain; a high hill; used always instead of mountain, when put before a proper name; as, Mount Washington; otherwise, chiefly in poetry. ... 2. A bulwark for offense or defense; a mound. ...
    Found op http://www.mondofacto.com/facts/dictionary?mount

  7. mount
    noun a mounting consisting of a piece of metal (as in a ring or other jewelry) that holds a gem in place; `the diamond was in a plain gold mount`
    Found op http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=mount

  8. mount
    verb prepare and supply with the necessary equipment for execution or performance; `mount a theater production`; `mount an attack`; `mount a play`
    Found op http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=mount

  9. mount
    (mount) to prepare specimens and slides for study.
    Found op http://www.encyclo.co.uk/local/21001

  10. Mount
    • (v.) A mass of earth, or earth and rock, rising considerably above the common surface of the surrounding land; a mountain; a high hill; -- used always instead of mountain, when put before a proper name; as, Mount Washington; otherwise, chiefly in poetry. • (v.) A bank; a fund. • (v....
    Found op http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning/mount/

  11. mount
    (from the article `furniture`) In the 17th and 18th centuries, especially in England and the American colonies, a refined style for furniture mounts, keyhole escutcheons (an ... ...pattern and the ground: hence the two types, boulle (buhl) and counterboulle. The light, fanciful designs of the archit...
    Found op http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/m/128

  12. mount
    mount 1. Abbreviated as Mt.; a mountain or hill. Used especially as part of a proper name. 2. Any of the seven fleshy cushions around the edges of the palm of the hand in palmistry. 3. To go up; climb; ascend; such as, to mount the stairs. 2. To get up on (a platform, a horse, etc.). 3. To set or...
    Found op http://www.wordinfo.info/words/index/info/view_unit/1331/

  13. mount
    1. a lightweight horse kept for riding only
    2. the act of climbing something
    3. a land mass that projects well above its surroundings; higher than a hill
    4. something forming a back that is added for strengthening

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