Mount vs Share - What's the difference?
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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).
A portion of something, especially a portion given or allotted to someone.
(finance) A financial instrument that shows that one owns a part of a company that provides the benefit of limited liability.
(computing) A configuration enabling a resource to be shared over a network.
The sharebone or pubis.
To give part of what one has to somebody else to use or consume.
To have or use in common.
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*(John Milton) (1608-1674)
*:while avarice and rapine share the land
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*:Thanks to that penny he had just spent so recklessly [on a newspaper] he would pass a happy hour, taken, for once, out of his anxious, despondent, miserable self. It irritated him shrewdly to know that these moments of respite from carking care would not be shared with his poor wife, with careworn, troubled Ellen.
To divide and distribute.
*(Jonathan Swift) (1667–1745)
*:Suppose I share my fortune equally between my children and a stranger.
To tell to another.
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, title= (lb) To cut; to shear; to cleave; to divide.
*(John Dryden) (1631-1700)
*:The shared visage hangs on equal sides.
(agriculture) The cutting blade of an agricultural machine like a plough, a cultivator or a seeding-machine.
As a proper noun mount
is .As a noun share is
a portion of something, especially a portion given or allotted to someone or share can be (agriculture) the cutting blade of an agricultural machine like a plough, a cultivator or a seeding-machine.As a verb share is
to give part of what one has to somebody else to use or consume.mount
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
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Synonyms
* See alsoAntonyms
* dismount * demount * unmountExternal links
* * *share
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) schare, schere, from (etyl) . Compare (l), (l).Noun
(en noun)- Upload media from the browser or directly to the file share .
- (Holland)
Derived terms
* lion's share * share and share alikeVerb
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