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MOUNTING
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Framework used for support or display
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("mounting" is a kind of...):
frame; framework (a structure supporting or containing something)
Meronyms (parts of "mounting"):
collet (a band or collar that holds an individual stone in a jewelry setting)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "mounting"):
chassis (a metal mounting for the circuit components of an electronic device)
mat; matting (mounting consisting of a border or background for a picture)
mount; setting (a mounting consisting of a piece of metal (as in a ring or other jewelry) that holds a gem in place)
passe-partout (a mounting for a picture using gummed tape)
Derivation:
mount (fix onto a backing, setting, or support)
Sense 2
Meaning:
An event that involves rising to a higher point (as in altitude or temperature or intensity etc.)
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("mounting" is a kind of...):
ascension; ascent; rise; rising (a movement upward)
Derivation:
mount (go up or advance)
mount (go upward with gradual or continuous progress)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
-ing form of the verb mount
Context examples:
The emperor, and all his court, came out to meet us; but his great officers would by no means suffer his majesty to endanger his person by mounting on my body.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
She used to practice mounting, holding the reins, and sitting straight on an old saddle in a tree.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
He spends his days flitting through the woods with his shot-gun and his butterfly-net, and his evenings in mounting the many specimens he has acquired.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
White Fang felt fear mounting in him again.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
Crude birth rates—the number of newborns per 1,000 people per year—were by then on the rise, mounting steadily until about 500 A.D. The growth varied across the region.
(Scientists chart a baby boom in southwestern Native Americans from 500 to 1300 A.D., NSF)
Your conduct would be quite as dependent on chance as that of any man I know; and if, as you were mounting your horse, a friend were to say, 'Bingley, you had better stay till next week,' you would probably do it, you would probably not go—and at another word, might stay a month.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
The new study also contributes to a mounting body of evidence that tropical forests might take up more carbon — and northern temperate forests might take up less carbon — than many scientists once thought.
(World's forests increasingly taking up more carbon, National Science Foundation)
The ensuing spring deprived her of her valued friend, the old grey pony; and for some time she was in danger of feeling the loss in her health as well as in her affections; for in spite of the acknowledged importance of her riding on horse-back, no measures were taken for mounting her again, because, as it was observed by her aunts, she might ride one of her cousin's horses at any time when they did not want them, and as the Miss Bertrams regularly wanted their horses every fine day, and had no idea of carrying their obliging manners to the sacrifice of any real pleasure, that time, of course, never came.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
Vaccination with MVF-HER-2(597-626)/MVF-HER-2(266-296) peptide vaccine may be capable of inducing an active specific immune response, mounting a cytotoxic T-lymphocyte (CTL) response and an antibody-dependent cell-mediated cytotoxicity (ADCC) against tumor cells that overexpress the HER-2 protein.
(MVF-HER-2(597-626)/MVF-HER-2 (266-296) Peptide Vaccine, NCI Thesaurus)
It completely conveyed the idea of a man who had been born, not to say with a silver spoon, but with a scaling-ladder, and had gone on mounting all the heights of life one after another, until now he looked, from the top of the fortifications, with the eye of a philosopher and a patron, on the people down in the trenches.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
