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MOUNTED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does mounted mean? 

MOUNTED (adjective)
  The adjective MOUNTED has 2 senses:

1. assembled for use; especially by being attached to a supportplay

2. decorated with applied ornamentation; often used in combinationplay

  Familiarity information: MOUNTED used as an adjective is rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


MOUNTED (adjective)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Assembled for use; especially by being attached to a support

Similar:

affixed (firmly attached)


Sense 2

Meaning:

Decorated with applied ornamentation; often used in combination

Context example:

the trim brass-mounted carbine of the ranger

Similar:

adorned; decorated (provided with something intended to increase its beauty or distinction)


 Context examples 


A cavalier, mounted on a large steed, might be about ninety feet high.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

This, too, happened as the fox said; they carried off the bird, the princess mounted again, and they rode on to a great wood.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

"Part of last week's washin' mounted up, me bein' away to get you," he explained.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

She mounted a stair, pushed open a door, and found herself in your room.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

SOFIA, which is a larger telescope than Spitzer, is mounted on a Boeing 747.

(New Observation of Nearby Star System Confirms Similarity to Ours, VOA)

If the immune system recognizes the antigen as abnormal or foreign, an immune response against it will be mounted.

(Cellular immunotherapy targets a common human cancer mutation, NIH)

He came back with a great silver-mounted box under his arm, and close at his heels was the gentleman whose coming had made such a disturbance.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“In truth, you take me back twenty years, Nigel,” quoth Sir Oliver, as they mounted and rode slowly through the water-gate.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A thin slice of fixative-preserved tissue mounted on a slide for microscopic examination.

(Permanent Section, NCI Thesaurus)

A slide on which a fixed specimen has been mounted.

(Fixed Slide, NCI Thesaurus)



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