Usually means: Secure or attach something firmly.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. mount: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. mount, mount: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. mount, mount: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. mount: Collins English Dictionary
  5. mount: Vocabulary.com
  6. Mount, mount: Wordnik
  7. Mount, mount: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Mount, mount: Wiktionary
  9. mount: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. mount: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. mount: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Mount, mount: Dictionary.com
  13. mount (n.), mount (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. mount: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Mount (Unix), Mount (computing), Mount (disambiguation), Mount (grappling), Mount (heraldry), Mount (surname), Mount, The Mount (HM Prison), The Mount (novel), The Mount (stadium), The Mount: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Mount: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. mount: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. mount: Rhymezone
  19. mount: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. mount: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. mount: Free Dictionary
  22. mount: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. mount: Dictionary/thesaurus
  24. mount: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. mount: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
  2. mount-: A Cross Reference of Latin and Greek Elements
  3. Glossary of Stamp Collecting Terms (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. mount: Legal dictionary

Computing (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. mount: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. Mount: CCI Computer
  3. Mount: Tech Terms Computer Dictionary
  4. mount: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. mount: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. mount: Idioms

Religion (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Mount: Easton Bible
  2. Mount: Smith's Bible Dictionary

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Botanical Terms (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. mount, mount, mount: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. the mount: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Mount: Sports Definitions

Tech (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. Sweetwater Music (No longer online)
  3. Urban Conservation Glossary (No longer online)
  4. Mount: Latitude Mexico

(Note: See mountable as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  A hill or mountain.
noun:  (palmistry) Any of seven fleshy prominences in the palm of the hand, taken to represent the influences of various heavenly bodies.
noun:  (obsolete) A bulwark for offence or defence; a mound.
noun:  (obsolete) A bank; a fund.
noun:  (heraldry) A green hillock in the base of a shield.
noun:  An animal, usually a horse, used to ride on (unlike a draught horse).
noun:  (now only figurative) A car, bicycle, or motorcycle used for racing.
noun:  A mounting; an object on which another object is mounted.
noun:  (obsolete) A rider in a cavalry unit or division.
noun:  A step or block to assist in mounting a horse.
noun:  A signal for mounting a horse.
noun:  (martial arts) A dominant ground grappling position, where one combatant sits on the other combatants torso with the face pointing towards the opponent's head.
verb:  (transitive) To get upon; to ascend; to climb.
verb:  (transitive) To place oneself on (a horse, a bicycle, etc.); to bestride.
verb:  (transitive) To cause to mount; to put on horseback; to furnish with animals for riding.
verb:  (obsolete, transitive) To cause (something) to rise or ascend; to drive up; to raise; to elevate; to lift up.
verb:  (transitive, martial arts) To sit on a combatant's torso with the face pointing towards the opponent's head; to assume the mount position in ground grappling.
verb:  (intransitive, rare) To rise on high; to go up; to be upraised or uplifted; to tower aloft; to ascend; often with up.
verb:  (transitive) To attach (an object) to a support, backing, framework etc.
verb:  (transitive, computing) To attach (a drive or device) to the file system in order to make it available to the operating system.
verb:  (intransitive, sometimes with up) To increase in quantity or intensity.
verb:  (obsolete) To attain in value; to amount (to).
verb:  (transitive) To get on top of (another) for the purpose of copulation.
verb:  (transitive) To have or begin sexual intercourse with someone.
verb:  (transitive) To begin (a campaign, military assault, etc.); to launch.
verb:  (transitive, archaic) To deploy (cannon) for use.
verb:  (transitive) To prepare and arrange the scenery, furniture, etc. for use in (a play or production).
verb:  (cooking) To incorporate fat, especially butter, into (a dish, especially a sauce to finish it).
noun:  A surname.
noun:  A hamlet in Perranzabuloe parish, Cornwall, England (OS grid ref SW7856).
noun:  A hamlet in Warleggan parish, east Cornwall (OS grid ref SX1468).

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