Demount vs Remount - What's the difference?
demount | remount |
To remove from its mounting; to take down from a mounted position.
(obsolete) To dismount.
(Webster 1913)
To go up again; to rise another time.
* 1897 , (Henry James), What Maisie Knew :
To help (someone) back on a horse.
To get back (on) a horse, bicycle etc.
* 1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , IV.4:
*2000 , (JG Ballard), Super-Cannes , Fourth Estate 2011, p. 378:
*:Still agitated, she watched resentfully as two traffic policemen remounted their motorcycles.
To ascend (something) again.
To fix (something) back into position.
The opportunity of, or things necessary for, remounting; specifically, a fresh horse, with his equipments; as, to give one a remount.
In transitive terms the difference between demount and remount
is that demount is to remove from its mounting; to take down from a mounted position while remount is to fix (something) back into position.As a noun remount is
the opportunity of, or things necessary for, remounting; specifically, a fresh horse, with his equipments; as, to give one a remount.demount
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- They remounted together to their sitting-room while Sir Claude, who said he would join them later, remained below to smoke and to converse with the old acquaintances that he met wherever he turned.
- And, as it fell, his steed he ready found; / On whom remounting fiercely forth he rode […].