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Alighting vs Mounting - What's the difference?

alighting | mounting |

As verbs the difference between alighting and mounting

is that alighting is present participle of alight while mounting is present participle of lang=en.

As nouns the difference between alighting and mounting

is that alighting is the act of one who alights while mounting is something mounted; an attachment.

As an adjective mounting is

that continues to mount; steadily accumulating.

alighting

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of one who alights.
  • * 1994 , Leslie Real, Behavioral Mechanisms in Evolutionary Ecology (page 287)
    • We compared the frequencies of alightings on hosts with those predicted from random transect data.
  • * 2000 , Peter Gregory Furth, Data Analysis for Bus Planning and Monitoring (page 24)
    • Load profiles are a standard analysis tool showing passenger activity (boardings, alightings ) and passenger load at each stop along a route in a single direction.

    mounting

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • that continues to mount; steadily accumulating.
    • mounting debts

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • Something mounted; an attachment.
  • The act of one who mounts.
  • * 1834 , John Dunmore Lang, An Historical and Statistical Account of New South Wales
    • 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.