Mounting vs Holding - What's the difference?
mounting | holding |
Something mounted; an attachment.
The act of one who mounts.
* 1834 , John Dunmore Lang, An Historical and Statistical Account of New South Wales
Something that one owns, especially stocks and bonds.
* 2009 , The Economist,
A determination of law made by a court.
A tenure; a farm or other estate held of another.
* 1596 , , V. i. 3:
(obsolete) That which holds, binds, or influences.
(obsolete) Logic; consistency.
* 1598 , , IV. ii. 27:
(obsolete) The burden or chorus of a song.
* 1598 , , II. vii. 109:
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As an adjective mounting
is that continues to mount; steadily accumulating.As a verb mounting
is .As a noun mounting
is something mounted; an attachment.As a proper noun holding is
.mounting
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(head)Noun
(en noun)- 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.
holding
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Noun
(wikipedia holding) (en noun)Law and order in Italy: Trouble with figures
- Italy's right-wing prime minister was about to cure his biggest headache by selling the state's holding in a troubled airline, Alitalia.
- Take again / From this my hand, as holding of the Pope / Your sovereign greatness and authority.
- (Burke)
- This has no holding , / To swear by him whom I protest to love / That I will work against him.
- Make battery to our ears with the loud music; / The while I'll place you; then the boy shall sing. / The holding every man shall beat as loud / As his strong sides can volley.