Mount
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Mount has three main meanings.
Mountain
"Mount" is often used to mean "mountain", as part of a name e.g. Mount Vesuvius, Mount McKinley, Mount Everest.
Mount as a verb
To "mount" something means to put it onto something else.
- An artist mounts his paintings on cardboard. An architect mounts his models on foamcore.
- A camera is mounted on a tripod. A gun is mounted on the deck of a ship.
- A rider mounts a horse. A gymnast mounts the balance beam for a display.
- A male animal mounts a female animal to have sexual intercourse.
Mount as a noun
A "mount" is a thing for mounting something on.
It might be a piece of equipment such as:
- A lens mount for a camera. This is the part of the camera that is made specially so that lenses can be attached.
It might be a piece of stiff flat "backing" such as:
- A mount for a stuffed animal. This is a piece of polished wood that a stuffed animal can be fixed to, for display.
- A picture mount. This is a piece of cardboard which a photograph or other picture is attached to.
It might be an animal:
- "Frederick's mount was a fine black horse, Ernest's mount was a chestnut mare, Clumsy Jack's mount was a skinny old goat."
Mount in computing and software
- Mount (in computing), the process of making a file system accessible
- Mount Unix, the utility in Unix-like operating systems which mounts file systems
- Mount (streaming), a concept used in streaming software programs