dismount

English

Etymology

dis- +‎ mount, probably a calque of Old French desmonter.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /dɪsˈmaʊnt/
• Rhymes: -aʊnt

Noun

dismount (plural dismounts)

1. (gymnastics) The part of a routine in which the gymnast detaches from an apparatus.

   A stylish routine, let down by a sloppy dismount.

Translations

part of gymnastics routine

• Finnish: alastulo (fi)

Verb

dismount (third-person singular simple present dismounts, present participle dismounting, simple past and past participle dismounted)

1. (transitive, intransitive) to get off (something)

   She carefully dismounted from the horse.

   • 2012, July 15. Richard Williams in Guardian Unlimited, Tour de France 2012: Carpet tacks cannot force Bradley Wiggins off track

     Cadel Evans was the first to suffer, quickly dismounting and waiting to take a bike from one of his BMC Racing team-mates, only to discover that the first of them had also punctured.

2. (computing, transitive) to make a hard 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.

Translations

to get off of

• Bulgarian: слизам (bg) (slizam)
• Chinese: 卸下
• Dutch: demonteer
• Esperanto: deĉevaliĝi (specifically a horse)

• French: démonter (fr)
• German: abnehmen (de), absteigen (de)
• Greek: κατεβεί (katebeí)
• Italian: smontarsi

Synonyms

• (computing) unmount, umount

Antonyms

• (to get off of) get on
• (computing) mount