Recount vs Remount - What's the difference?
recount | remount |
To tell over; to relate in detail; to recite; to tell or narrate the particulars of.
To rehearse; to enumerate.
To go up again; to rise another time.
* 1897 , (Henry James), What Maisie Knew :
To help (someone) back on a horse.
To get back (on) a horse, bicycle etc.
* 1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , IV.4:
*2000 , (JG Ballard), Super-Cannes , Fourth Estate 2011, p. 378:
*:Still agitated, she watched resentfully as two traffic policemen remounted their motorcycles.
To ascend (something) again.
To fix (something) back into position.
The opportunity of, or things necessary for, remounting; specifically, a fresh horse, with his equipments; as, to give one a remount.
As nouns the difference between recount and remount
is that recount is retelling, narration, rendering or recount can be a counting again, as of votes while remount is the opportunity of, or things necessary for, remounting; specifically, a fresh horse, with his equipments; as, to give one a remount.As verbs the difference between recount and remount
is that recount is to tell over; to relate in detail; to recite; to tell or narrate the particulars of or recount can be to count or reckon again while remount is to go up again; to rise another time.recount
English
Etymology 1
From and (etyl) reconter, variant of (etyl) raconter.Verb
(en verb)- The old man recounted the tale of how he caught the big fish.
- to recount one's blessings
Etymology 2
Anagrams
*remount
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Verb
- They remounted together to their sitting-room while Sir Claude, who said he would join them later, remained below to smoke and to converse with the old acquaintances that he met wherever he turned.
- And, as it fell, his steed he ready found; / On whom remounting fiercely forth he rode […].