Dismount vs Discount - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between dismount and discount

is that dismount is the part of a routine in which the gymnast detaches from an apparatus while discount is a reduction in price.

As verbs the difference between dismount and discount

is that dismount is to get off (something while discount is to deduct from an account, debt, charge, and the like; to make an abatement of.

As an adjective discount is

of goods, available at reduced prices; discounted.

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

discount

English

(wikipedia discount) (Webster 1913)

Verb

(en verb)

To deduct from an account, debt, charge, and the like; to make an abatement of.

Merchants sometimes discount five or six per cent for prompt payment of bills.

To lend money upon, deducting the discount or allowance for interest; as, the banks discount notes and bills of exchange.

* Walsh

Discount only unexceptionable paper.

To take into consideration beforehand; to anticipate and form conclusions concerning (an event).

To leave out of account; to take no notice of.

* Sir William Hamilton

Of the three opinions, (I discount Brown's), under this head, one supposes that the law of Causality is a positive affirmation, and a primary fact of thought, incapable of all further analysis.

:They discounted his comments.

To lend, or make a practice of lending, money, abating the discount; as, the discount for sixty or ninety days.

Noun

(en noun)

A reduction in price.

A deduction made for interest, in advancing money upon, or purchasing, a bill or note not due; payment in advance of interest upon money.

The rate of interest charged in discounting.

Synonyms

* (reduction in price) rebate, reduction

Antonyms

* surcharge

Derived terms

* quantity discount * rediscount * seasonal discount

Descendants

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Adjective

(-)

Of goods, available at reduced prices; discounted.

This store specializes in discount wares.

Of a store, specializing in goods at reduced prices.

If you're looking for cheap clothes, there's a discount clothier around the corner.

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