What's the difference between
and
Enter two words to compare and contrast their definitions, origins, and synonyms to better understand how those words are related.

Riding vs Mounting - What's the difference?

riding | mounting |

As verbs the difference between riding and mounting

is that riding is present participle of lang=en while mounting is present participle of lang=en.

As nouns the difference between riding and mounting

is that riding is a path cut through woodland while mounting is something mounted; an attachment.

As an adjective mounting is

that continues to mount; steadily accumulating.

riding

English

Etymology 1

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

  • A path cut through woodland.
  • The act of one who rides; a mounted excursion.
  • * 1853 , Charlotte Mary Yonge, The Heir of Redclyffe (volume 1, page 95)
    • I like nothing better than to hear of your ridings , and shootings, and boatings.
  • (obsolete) A festival procession.
    • (Chaucer)

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl), from (etyl) * (wikipedia riding)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Historically]], one of the three administrative divisions of Yorkshire and some other northern [[county, counties of England.
  • (Canada) Electoral district or constituency.

    • Derived terms

    * (Canada) riding association

    See also

    * wapentake

    Anagrams

    *

    mounting

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • that continues to mount; steadily accumulating.
    • mounting debts

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • Something mounted; an attachment.
  • The act of one who mounts.
  • * 1834 , John Dunmore Lang, An Historical and Statistical Account of New South Wales
    • 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.