Dismount vs Descend - What's the difference?
dismount | descend |
(gymnastics) The part of a routine in which the gymnast detaches from an apparatus.
(ambitransitive) to get off (something)
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(computing) to make a mounted drive unavailable for use
To come down; to descend.
* Spenser
To pass from a higher to a lower place; to move downwards; to come or go down in any way, as by falling, flowing, walking, etc.; to plunge; to fall; to incline downward
(poetic) To enter mentally; to retire.
(with on or upon) To make an attack, or incursion, as if from a vantage ground; to come suddenly and with violence.
To come down to a lower, less fortunate, humbler, less virtuous, or worse, state or station; to lower or abase one's self
To pass from the more general or important to the particular or less important matters to be considered.
To come down, as from a source, original, or stock; to be derived; to proceed by generation or by transmission; to fall or pass by inheritance.
(anatomy) To move toward the south, or to the southward.
(music) To fall in pitch; to pass from a higher to a lower tone.
To go down upon or along; to pass from a higher to a lower part of
As verbs the difference between dismount and descend
is that dismount is to get off (something while descend is to pass from a higher to a lower place; to move downwards; to come or go down in any way, as by falling, flowing, walking, etc.; to plunge; to fall; to incline downward.As a noun dismount
is the part of a routine in which the gymnast detaches from an apparatus.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 .
Synonyms
* (computing ) unmount, umountAntonyms
* (to get off of ) get on * (computing ) mountdescend
English
(Webster 1913)Verb
(en verb)- The rain descended , and the floods came. Matthew vii. 25.
- We will here descend to matters of later date. Fuller.
- [He] with holiest meditations fed, Into himself descended . .
- And on the suitors let thy wrath descend . .
- he descended from his high estate
- the beggar may descend from a prince
- a crown descends to the heir
- they descended the river in boats; to descend a ladder
- But never tears his cheek descended . .