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Dismount vs Dismounting - What's the difference?

dismount | dismounting |

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)
  • (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

    dismounting

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of one who dismounts.
  • * 1834 , John Dunmore Lang, An Historical and Statistical Account of New South Wales
    • 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.