dismount
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /dɪsˈmaʊnt/
dismount (dismounts, present participle dismounting; past and past participle dismounted)
- (ambitransitive) To (cause to) get off (something).
- She carefully dismounted from the horse.
- She carefully dismounted the horse.
- 2012, July 15. Richard Williams in Guardian Unlimited, Tour de France 2012: Carpet tacks cannot force Bradley Wiggins off track ↗
- Cadel Evans was the first to suffer, quickly dismounting and waiting to take a bike from one of his BMC Racing team-mates, only to discover that the first of them had also punctured.
- (computing, ambitransitive) 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.
- 1995, Rick Sant'Angelo, NetWare unleashed (page 1130)
- PROBLEM: A volume periodically dismounts. There are two drives with one volume on each. From time to time, the second volume dismounts and the drive shuts down.
- (intransitive) To come down; to descend.
- But now the bright sun ginneth to dismount.
- (military, transitive) To throw (cannon) off their carriages.
- French: démonter
- German: abnehmen, absteigen
- Italian: smontarsi
- Portuguese: desmontar
- Russian: слеза́ть
- Spanish: desmontar
- French: démonter
- Russian: демонти́ровать
- Russian: демонти́ровать
- French: descendre
- Russian: спуска́ться
dismount (plural dismounts)
- (gymnastics) The part of a routine in which the gymnast detaches from an apparatus.
- It was a stylish routine, let down by a sloppy dismount.
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