Sekirov Dictionary

dismount

/dɪsˈmaʊnt/

verb 4
noun 2
forms 4

verb4

•
To (cause to) get off (something).
- She carefully dismounted from the horse.
- She carefully dismounted the horse.
•
To come down; to descend.
- But now the bright sun ginneth to dismount. — 1579
To throw (cannon) off their carriages.
•
To make (a mounted drive) unavailable for use.
- The VMS operator tried to dismount the Unix hard drive with the DISMOUNT DISK$NFSMOUNT command, instead of umount /mnt/nfshome.

noun2

•
The act of stepping down from something being ridden, such as a skateboard.
- Nice dismount!
•
The part of a routine in which the gymnast detaches from an apparatus.
- It was a stylish routine, let down by a sloppy dismount.

forms

dismounted · dismounting · dismounteth · dismounts

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