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Dismount vs Devolve - What's the difference?

dismount | devolve |

As verbs the difference between dismount and devolve

is that dismount is (ambitransitive) to get off (something) while devolve is .

As a noun dismount

is (gymnastics) 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

    devolve

    English

    Verb

    (en-verb)
  • (obsolete) To roll (something) down; to unroll.
  • * 1744 , (Mark Akenside), The Pleasures of the Imagination , II:
    • every headlong stream / Devolves its winding waters to the main.
  • * 1830 , , Character :
    • He spake of virtue […] And with […] a lack-lustre dead-blue eye, Devolved his rounded periods.
  • To be inherited by someone else; to pass down (upon) the next person in a succession, especially through failure or loss of an earlier holder.
  • * 1932 , (Duff Cooper), Talleyrand , Folio Society 2010, p. 4:
    • an accident […] rendered him permanently lame, and therefore unfitted him, in the opinion of his parents, to inherit his father's many titles, which, it was then arranged, should devolve upon his younger brother.
  • To delegate (a responsibility, duty etc.) (on) or (upon) someone.
  • * 1704 , (Joseph Addison), Remarks on Several Parts of Italy :
    • They devolved their whole authority into the hands of the council of sixty.
  • * 1756 , (Edmund Burke), A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful :
    • An artful man became popular, the people had power in their hands, and they devolved a considerable share of their power upon their favourite […].
  • To fall as a duty or responsibility (on) or (upon) someone.
  • * , Episode 16:
    • For the nonce he was rather nonplussed but inasmuch as the duty plainly devolved upon him to take some measures on the subject he pondered suitable ways and means during which Stephen repeatedly yawned.
  • To degenerate; to break down.
    • A discussion about politics may devolve into a shouting match.

    Related terms

    * devolution

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