Montant vs Mountant - What's the difference?
montant | mountant | Related terms |
(fencing, archaic) An upward cut with a blade
* Host - "To see thee fight, to see thee foin, to see thee traverse; to see thee pass thy punto, thy stock, thy reverse, thy distance, thy montant." from .
(carpentry) An upright piece in any framework, such as a muntin or stile
(drinking) The first scent of a cognac
* {{quote-book, 2004, Anthony Dias Blue, The Complete Book of Spirits, page=238
, passage=Instead, let the montant meet your nose just above the rim of the glass. }}
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(archaic) Rising
*{{quote-book, 1607,
, passage=Hold up, you sluts, / Your aprons mountant }}
(microscopy) The medium used for mounting a slide
*{{quote-book, 2004, Cletus P. Kurzman & Jack W. Fell, Biodiversity of Fungi, chapter=Yeasts, page=335
, passage=Both mountants can be placed on the same slide, with spores placed in each. }}
(photography, dated) The adhesive used to affix a photograph to a mount
*{{quote-book, 1911, Bernard Edward Jones, Encyclopedia of Photography, page=365, edition=1964 reprint
, passage=The favourite professional mountant was, and to some extent still is, starch paste.}}
Montant is a related term of mountant.
As nouns the difference between montant and mountant
is that montant is (fencing|archaic) an upward cut with a blade or montant can be (carpentry) an upright piece in any framework, such as a muntin or stile while mountant is (microscopy) the medium used for mounting a slide.As an adjective mountant is
(archaic) rising.montant
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