Dismantled vs Demountable - What's the difference?
dismantled | demountable |
(dismantle)
(originally) To divest, strip of dress or covering.
To remove fittings or furnishings from.
To take apart; to disassemble; to take to pieces.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-05-17
, author=George Monbiot, authorlink=George Monbiot
, title=Money just makes the rich suffer
, volume=188, issue=23, page=19
, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly)
Able to be removed from its mount; designed to be dismantled; detachable; portable.
(computing, of a hard drive, dated) Designed to be removed from the read mechanism.
As a verb dismantled
is past tense of dismantle.As an adjective demountable is
able to be removed from its mount; designed to be dismantled; detachable; portable.dismantled
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(dismantl)citation, passage=In order to grant the rich these pleasures, the social contract is reconfigured. The welfare state is dismantled . Essential public services are cut so that the rich may pay less tax. […]}}