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Mount vs Mantle - What's the difference?

mount | mantle |

In surname terms the difference between mount and mantle

is that mount is while mantle is .

As proper nouns the difference between mount and mantle

is that mount is while mantle is .

mount

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl), from (etyl) munt, from (etyl) , from a root seen also in (English eminent).

Noun

(en noun)
  • A mountain.
  • (label) A bulwark for offence or defence; a mound.
  • * Bible, Jer. vi. 6
  • Hew ye down trees, and cast a mount against Jerusalem.
  • (label) A bank; a fund.
  • 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)
  • An animal, usually a horse, used to ride on, unlike a draught horse
  • The rider climbed onto his mount .
  • A mounting; an object on which another object is mounted.
  • The post is the mount on which the mailbox is installed.
  • (label) A rider in a cavalry unit or division.
  • The General said he has 2,000 mounts .

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To move upwards.
  • #(lb) To get upon; to ascend; to climb.
  • #:
  • #*(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.
  • #:
  • #(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.
  • :
  • *
  • *:But then I had the [massive] flintlock by me for protection. ¶.
  • *
  • *:“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.
  • #:
  • To increase in quantity or intensity.
  • :
  • (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.
  • :
  • *{{quote-news, year=2012, date=May 5, author=Phil McNulty, work=BBC Sport
  • , title= 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.}}
  • To deploy (cannon) for use in or around it.
  • :
  • (lb) To prepare and arrange the scenery, furniture, etc. for use in (a play or production).
  • Synonyms
    * See also
    Antonyms
    * dismount * demount * unmount

    mantle

    English

    (wikipedia mantle)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A piece of clothing somewhat like an open robe or cloak, especially that worn by Orthodox bishops.
  • (figuratively) A figurative garment representing authority or status, capable of affording protection.
  • At the meeting, she finally assumed the mantle of leadership of the party.
    The movement strove to put women under the protective mantle of civil rights laws.
  • (figuratively) Anything that covers or conceals something else; a cloak.
  • * (rfdate) (Shakespeare) (King Lear)
  • the green mantle of the standing pool
  • (zoology) The body wall of a mollusc, from which the shell is secreted.
  • * 1990 , Daniel L. Gilbert, William J. Adelman, John M. Arnold (editors), Squid as Experimental Animals , page 71 (where there is an illustration):
  • Before copulation in Loligo'', the male swims beside and slightly below about his potential mate and flashes his chromatophores. He grasps the female from slightly below about the mid-mantle region and positions himself so his arms are close to the opening of her mantle'''. He then reaches into his ' mantle with his hectocotylus and picks up several spermatophores from his penis.
  • (zoology) The back of a bird together with the folded wings.
  • The zone of hot gases around a flame; the gauzy incandescent covering of a gas lamp.
  • The outer wall and casing of a blast furnace, above the hearth.
  • (Raymond)
  • A penstock for a water wheel.
  • (anatomy) The cerebral cortex.
  • (geology) The layer between the Earth's core and crust.
  • A fireplace shelf;
  • (heraldry) A mantling.
  • Derived terms

    * assume the mantle * gas mantle * mantlepiece * mantle-tree * upper mantle

    Verb

    (mantl)
  • To cover or conceal (something); to cloak; to disguise.
  • (Shakespeare)
  • To become covered or concealed.
  • (of face, cheeks) To flush.
  • * 1913 ,
  • The blood still mantled below her ears; she bent her head in shame of her humility.

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