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mount | sony |

As a proper noun mount

is .

As a noun sony is

.

mount

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl), from (etyl) munt, from (etyl) , from a root seen also in (English eminent).

Noun

(en noun)
  • A mountain.
  • (label) A bulwark for offence or defence; a mound.
  • * Bible, Jer. vi. 6
    • Hew ye down trees, and cast a mount against Jerusalem.
  • (label) A bank; a fund.
    • Usage notes
    * Used chiefly in poetry, but also in the names of specific mountains, e.g. "Mount Everest".
    Derived terms
    * (abbreviation)

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) mounten, from (etyl) mounter, from (etyl) monter, from ; compare French monter.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An animal, usually a horse, used to ride on, unlike a draught horse
    • The rider climbed onto his mount .
  • A mounting; an object on which another object is mounted.
    • The post is the mount on which the mailbox is installed.
  • (label) A rider in a cavalry unit or division.
    • The General said he has 2,000 mounts .

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To move upwards.
  • #(lb) To get upon; to ascend; to climb.
  • #:
  • #*(John Dryden) (1631-1700)
  • #*:Or shall we mount again the Rural Throne, / And rule the Country Kingdoms, once our own?
  • #(lb) To place oneself on (a horse, a bicycle, etc.); to bestride.
  • #:
  • #(lb) To cause to mount; to put on horseback; to furnish with animals for riding.
  • #*(John Dryden) (1631-1700)
  • #*:to mount the Trojan troop
  • # To cause (something) to rise or ascend; to drive up''; to raise; to elevate; to lift ''up .
  • #*(William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
  • #*:What power is it which mounts my love so high?
  • # To rise on high; to go up; to be upraised or uplifted; to tower aloft; to ascend; often with up .
  • #*Bible, (w) li. 53
  • #*:Though Babylon should mount up to heaven.
  • #* (1743-1809)
  • #*:The fire of trees and houses mounts on high.
  • (lb) To attach (an object) to a support.
  • :
  • *
  • *:But then I had the [massive] flintlock by me for protection. ¶.
  • *
  • *:“My Continental prominence is improving,” I commented dryly. ¶ Von Lindowe cut at a furze bush with his silver-mounted rattan. ¶ “Quite so,” he said as dryly, his hand at his mustache. “I may say if your intentions were known your life would not be worth a curse.”
  • # To attach (a drive or device) to the file system in order to make it available to the operating system.
  • #:
  • To increase in quantity or intensity.
  • :
  • (lb) To attain in value; to amount (to).
  • *(Alexander Pope) (1688-1744)
  • *:Bring then these blessings to a strict account, / Make fair deductions, see to what they mount .
  • (lb) To get on top of (an animal) to mate.
  • # To have sexual intercourse with someone.
  • (lb) To begin (a military assault, etc.); to launch.
  • :
  • *{{quote-news, year=2012, date=May 5, author=Phil McNulty, work=BBC Sport
    • , title= Chelsea 2-1 Liverpool , passage=For Liverpool, their season will now be regarded as a relative disappointment after failure to add the FA Cup to the Carling Cup and not mounting a challenge to reach the Champions League places.}}
  • To deploy (cannon) for use in or around it.
  • :
  • (lb) To prepare and arrange the scenery, furniture, etc. for use in (a play or production).
    • Synonyms
    * See also
    Antonyms
    * dismount * demount * unmount

    Related terms

    * amount * mountain * paramount * surmount

    External links

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    sony

    English

    Proper noun

    (en proper noun)
  • An international electronics and media company based in Tokyo, Japan.
  • * 1980 , Timothy Crouse, The Boys on the Bus , Ballantine Books, ISBN 0345270983, page 16
    • Connie Chung, the pretty Chinese CBS correspondent, occupied the room next to mine at the Hyatt House and she was always back by midnight, reciting a final sixty-second radio spot into her Sony or absorbing one last press release before getting a good night’s sleep.
  • * 1993 , Martha Gever, Pratibha Parmar and John Greyson, Queer Looks'', ''Perspectives on Lesbian and Gay Film and Video , Routledge, ISBN 041590742X, page 76
    • he mostly makes videos—virtually reinventing the diary form with his Sony 8 scrapbook.
  • * 1995 , Victor J. Ramraj, Concert of Voices'', ''An Anthology of World Writing in English , Broadview Press, ISBN 1551110253, page 297
    • My memoirs. At night I leave a Sony by my bed. Night is the best time for remembering.
  • * 1999 , Peter Cook, Archigram , Princeton Architectural Press, ISBN 1568981945, page 113
    • The common threads that exist between the fisherman and his Sony and the project above. Robert Smithson's 'Incidents of mirror travel in the Yucatan' are important.
  • * 2002 , Alexander J. Morin, Classical Music'', ''The Listener's Companion , Backbeat Books, ISBN 0879306386, page 98
    • Bernstein always understood this symphony, and his Sony recording was for many years one of the best.
  • * 2003 , Nadine Condon, Hot Hits, Cheap Demos'', ''The Real-World Guide to Music Business Success , Backbeat Books, ISBN 0879307625, page 34
    • Gary’s roster currently has Tritt and two new Sony artists soon to be hugely famous, JEB and Christy Sutherland.
  • * 2006 , Joseph Finder, Killer Instinct , St. Martin's Press, ISBN 0312347472, page 5
    • Most of the e-mails were blowback from the departure of our divisional vice president, Crawford, who’d just jumped ship to Sony .

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