MOUNT

The word 'mount' (from the Latin ''mons'', mountain or hill) has many meanings:

★ Mount may be short for mountain; this is the origin of names such as Mount Ararat

★ A mount is a riding animal, i.e. a (usually domesticated) animal intending for riding—an equine such as horse, camel, elephant or garuda; ''to mount'' means to sit astride such an animal

★ A mount in aeronautics is a pilot's craft of choice, usually referring to the individual craft, but sometimes also to the type itself. [1] Example of usage

★ To mount is to climb or to stand atop something; in this sense, it can also refer euphemistically to copulation, especially between animals

★ Mounting, in taxidermy, is the preparation of dead animals for display

★ Mounting, to a guitarist means to support the instrument with the leg, as opposed to a strap or sitting

★ Mounting, in graphic arts, is attaching an item such a print to a heavy backing such as foamcore

★ A mount is a point where additional equipment, such as a weapon, camera, winch and telescope can be attached to a fixed point or a vehicle so that the operator need not support nor stabilise the equipment; see also gun turret, hard point

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★ Telescope mount, a device used to position, support, and stabilize a telescope

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★ Lens mount

★ A mount (grappling), is a favorable position where a combatant sits astride the adversary's chest

★ A mount in gymnastics is the maneuver of going from the ground onto a gymnastic apparatus, such as the balance beam or parallel bars

★ Mount (Unix) Unix system utility to place a file system into the directory tree

★ Mount (streaming) Points are also used in streaming software systems

★ The Mount (Lenox, Massachusetts) is the name of Edith Wharton's home in the Berkshires
For people named Mount, see Mount (surname)