Implement vs Mount - What's the difference?
implement | mount |
A tool or instrument for working with.
* 1900 , Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams'', ''Avon Books , (translated by James Strachey) pg. 234:
to bring about; to put into practice
to carry out; to do
A mountain.
(label) A bulwark for offence or defence; a mound.
* Bible, Jer. vi. 6
(label) A bank; a fund.
An animal, usually a horse, used to ride on, unlike a draught horse
A mounting; an object on which another object is mounted.
(label) A rider in a cavalry unit or division.
To move upwards.
#(lb) To get upon; to ascend; to climb.
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#*(John Dryden) (1631-1700)
#*:Or shall we mount again the Rural Throne, / And rule the Country Kingdoms, once our own?
#(lb) To place oneself on (a horse, a bicycle, etc.); to bestride.
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#(lb) To cause to mount; to put on horseback; to furnish with animals for riding.
#*(John Dryden) (1631-1700)
#*:to mount the Trojan troop
# To cause (something) to rise or ascend; to drive up''; to raise; to elevate; to lift ''up .
#*(William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
#*:What power is it which mounts my love so high?
# To rise on high; to go up; to be upraised or uplifted; to tower aloft; to ascend; often with up .
#*Bible, (w) li. 53
#*:Though Babylon should mount up to heaven.
#* (1743-1809)
#*:The fire of trees and houses mounts on high.
(lb) To attach (an object) to a support.
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*:But then I had the [massive] flintlock by me for protection. ¶.
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*:“My Continental prominence is improving,” I commented dryly. ¶ Von Lindowe cut at a furze bush with his silver-mounted rattan. ¶ “Quite so,” he said as dryly, his hand at his mustache. “I may say if your intentions were known your life would not be worth a curse.”
# To attach (a drive or device) to the file system in order to make it available to the operating system.
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To increase in quantity or intensity.
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(lb) To attain in value; to amount (to).
*(Alexander Pope) (1688-1744)
*:Bring then these blessings to a strict account, / Make fair deductions, see to what they mount .
(lb) To get on top of (an animal) to mate.
# To have sexual intercourse with someone.
(lb) To begin (a military assault, etc.); to launch.
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(lb) To prepare and arrange the scenery, furniture, etc. for use in (a play or production).
As a noun implement
is a tool or instrument for working with.As a verb implement
is to bring about; to put into practice.As a proper noun mount is
.implement
English
(wikipedia implement)Etymology 1
From .Noun
(en noun)- They carried an assortment of gardening implements in the truck.
- A man dreamt as follows: He saw two boys struggling—barrel-maker’s boys, to judge by the implements lying around.
Synonyms
* See alsoEtymology 2
From Scottish English or (etyl)Verb
(en verb)- It’s a good thought, but it will be a difficult thing to implement .
Usage notes
* Objects: plan, programme, strategy, policy, agreement, order, specification, etc.Derived terms
* implementable * implementation * implementerExternal links
* * English heteronymsmount
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl), from (etyl) munt, from (etyl) , from a root seen also in (English eminent).Noun
(en noun)- Hew ye down trees, and cast a mount against Jerusalem.
Usage notes
* Used chiefly in poetry, but also in the names of specific mountains, e.g. "Mount Everest".Derived terms
* (abbreviation)Etymology 2
From (etyl) mounten, from (etyl) mounter, from (etyl) monter, from ; compare French monter.Noun
(en noun)- The rider climbed onto his mount .
- The post is the mount on which the mailbox is installed.
- The General said he has 2,000 mounts .
Verb
(en verb)Chelsea 2-1 Liverpool, passage=For Liverpool, their season will now be regarded as a relative disappointment after failure to add the FA Cup to the Carling Cup and not mounting a challenge to reach the Champions League places.}}