mount
part of speech
verb (mount, mounts, mounted, mounting); noun (a mount, mounts; Mount + name)
meaning for a pupil
1) To mount a horse or bike is to get on it. tree →
2) To mount is to go up or climb, or to slowly increase: «worries mounted». tree →
3) To mount something is to fix it onto a wall or stand, or onto card for display. tree →
4) Mount is used in the names of mountains, like Mount Everest. tree →
5) A mount is a horse for riding, or a stand or card that holds something. tree →
sense in the lessons
In geography lessons mountains are named Mount Everest, Mount Kilimanjaro, Mount Cook (Aoraki). In school life pupils mount their work on coloured card for display. In stories a knight mounts his horse and excitement mounts. Phrases: mount a horse, mount up, mount a display, mount on the wall, Mount Everest.
examples
- Mount Everest is the highest mountain in the world. tree →
- The knight mounted his horse. tree →
- Mount your picture on black card. tree →
- The TV is mounted on the wall. tree →
- Tension mounted as the clock ticked. tree →
- The costs began to mount up. tree →
- Climb Mount Snowdon on holiday. tree →
- So he mounted his horse and set off. tree →
note
Regular verb (mounted). In names «Mount» is written with a capital and often shortened to «Mt»: Mt Everest. The opposite of mount a horse is dismount. «Mount up» means to grow bit by bit.
In the corpora
- Nepal uses UTC plus 5 hours 45 minutes, its capital is Kathmandu, and Mount Everest stands on its border with China.
- In 1953 Edmund Hillary from New Zealand and Tenzing Norgay from Nepal were the first to climb Mount Everest.
- God gave the Ten Commandments to Moses on Mount Sinai, written on two stone tablets.
- Christians call it the Sermon on the Mount.
- The Sermon on the Mount is Jesus' great teaching on a hillside, found in Matthew chapters 5 to 7.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «mount» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.