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Dismount vs Descend - What's the difference?

dismount | descend |

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)
  • (gymnastics) The part of a routine in which the gymnast detaches from an apparatus.
  • A stylish routine, let down by a sloppy dismount .

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (ambitransitive) to get off (something)
  • She carefully dismounted from the horse.
  • * 2012 , July 15. Richard Williams in Guardian Unlimited, 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.
  • (computing) to make a mounted drive unavailable for use
  • The VMS operator tried to dismount the Unix hard drive with the DISMOUNT DISK$NFSMOUNT command, instead of umount /mnt/nfshome.
  • To come down; to descend.
  • * Spenser
  • But now the bright sun ginneth to dismount .

    Synonyms

    * (computing ) unmount, umount

    Antonyms

    * (to get off of ) get on * (computing ) mount

    descend

    English

    (Webster 1913)

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • 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
  • The rain descended , and the floods came. Matthew vii. 25.
    We will here descend to matters of later date. Fuller.
  • (poetic) To enter mentally; to retire.
  • [He] with holiest meditations fed, Into himself descended . .
  • (with on or upon) To make an attack, or incursion, as if from a vantage ground; to come suddenly and with violence.
  • And on the suitors let thy wrath descend . .
  • To come down to a lower, less fortunate, humbler, less virtuous, or worse, state or station; to lower or abase one's self
  • he descended from his high estate
  • 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.
  • the beggar may descend from a prince
    a crown descends to the heir
  • (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
  • they descended the river in boats; to descend a ladder
    But never tears his cheek descended . .

    Synonyms

    * go down

    Antonyms

    * ascend * go up

    Derived terms

    * descender