dismounting
dismounting is the present participle and gerund of dismount.
Meaning of dismount
Verb
dismount (third-person singular simple present dismounts, present participle dismounting, simple past and past participle dismounted)
- To (cause to) get off (something).
- She carefully dismounted from the horse.
- To make (a mounted drive) unavailable for use.
- The VMS operator tried to dismount the Unix hard drive with the DISMOUNT DISK$NFSMOUNT command, instead of umount /mnt/nfshome.
- To come down; to descend.
- But now the bright sun ginneth to dismount.1579, Immeritô [pseudonym; Edmund Spenser], “May. Ægloga Quinta.”, in The Shepheardes Calender: […], London: […] Iohn Wolfe for Iohn Harrison the yonger, […], →OCLC
- To throw (cannon) off their carriages.
Noun
dismounting (plural dismountings)
- The act of one who dismounts.
- The stage we had now commenced was eighteen miles in length; but the frequent mountings and dismountings, to climb or to descend the rocky sides of the mountains, made it appear much longer.1834, John Dunmore Lang, An Historical and Statistical Account of New South Wales
Forms of dismounting
| plural | dismountings |
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Questions about dismounting
- What does dismounting mean?
- Dismounting means the act of one who dismounts.
- What is dismounting the present participle and gerund of?
- Dismounting is the present participle and gerund of dismount.
- What part of speech is dismounting?
- Dismounting is a noun.
- What is the plural of dismounting?
- The plural of dismounting is dismountings.
Words near dismounting in the dictionary
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