Dismount vs Comedown - What's the difference?
dismount | comedown |
(gymnastics) The part of a routine in which the gymnast detaches from an apparatus.
(ambitransitive) to get off (something)
* 2012 , July 15. Richard Williams in Guardian Unlimited,
(computing) to make a mounted drive unavailable for use
To come down; to descend.
* Spenser
As nouns the difference between dismount and comedown
is that dismount is (gymnastics) the part of a routine in which the gymnast detaches from an apparatus while comedown is a sudden drop to a lower status, condition or level; a disappointment or letdown.As a verb dismount
is (ambitransitive) to get off (something).dismount
English
Noun
(en noun)- A stylish routine, let down by a sloppy dismount .
Verb
(en verb)- She carefully dismounted from the horse.
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.
- The VMS operator tried to dismount the Unix hard drive with the DISMOUNT DISK$NFSMOUNT command, instead of umount /mnt/nfshome.
- But now the bright sun ginneth to dismount .