Dismount vs Dismounting - What's the difference?
dismount | dismounting |
(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
The act of one who dismounts.
* 1834 , John Dunmore Lang, An Historical and Statistical Account of New South Wales
As nouns the difference between dismount and dismounting
is that dismount is the part of a routine in which the gymnast detaches from an apparatus while dismounting is the act of one who dismounts.As verbs the difference between dismount and dismounting
is that dismount is to get off (something while dismounting is present participle of lang=en.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 ) mountdismounting
English
Verb
(head)Noun
(en noun)- The stage we had now commenced was eighteen miles in length; but the frequent mountings and dismountings , to climb or to descend the rocky sides of the mountains, made it appear much longer.