Mount vs. Remount — What's the Difference?

To climb or ascend

Remount referred to the provision of fresh horses, particularly for military purposes. The word encompasses both the animals themselves and the means by which they were provided.

To place oneself upon; get up on

To mount again.

To climb onto (a female) for copulation. Used of male animals.

To supply with a fresh horse.

To furnish with a horse for riding.

A fresh horse.

To set on a horse

(intransitive) To go up again; to rise another time.

To set in a raised position

(transitive) To help (someone) back on a horse.

To fix securely to a support

(intransitive) To get back on a horse, bicycle etc.

To place or fix on or in the appropriate support or setting for display or study

(transitive) To get back on (an animal, vehicle) again.

To provide with scenery, costumes, and other equipment necessary for production

(transitive) To ascend (something) again.

To organize and equip

(transitive) To fix (something) back into position.

To prepare and set in motion

To mount (a drive or volume) again.

To set in position for use

The opportunity of, or things necessary for, remounting; specifically, a fresh horse, with its equipment.

To carry as equipment

(computing) The process of mounting a drive or volume again.

To post (a guard).

The restaging of a play or film.

To go upward; rise

To mount again.

To get up on something, as a horse or bicycle.

The opportunity of, or things necessary for, remounting; specifically, a fresh horse, with his equipments; as, to give one a remount.

To increase in amount, extent, or intensity

A fresh horse especially (formerly) to replace one killed or injured in battle

The act or manner of mounting.

Mount again;

A means of conveyance, such as a horse, on which to ride.

Mount again, as after dissembling something

An opportunity to ride a horse in a race.

Provide with fresh horses;

A glass slide for use with a microscope.

A hinge used to fasten stamps in an album.

A setting for a jewel.

An undercarriage or stand on which a device rests while in service.

Abbr. Mt. A mountain or hill. Used especially as part of a proper name.

Any of the seven fleshy cushions around the edges of the palm of the hand in palmistry.

A hill or mountain.

(palmistry) Any of seven fleshy prominences in the palm of the hand, taken to represent the influences of various heavenly bodies.

(obsolete) A bulwark for offence or defence; a mound.

(obsolete) A bank; a fund.

(heraldry) A green hillock in the base of a shield.

An animal, usually a horse, used to ride on (unlike a draught horse).

A car, bicycle, or motorcycle used for racing.

A mounting; an object on which another object is mounted.

(obsolete) A rider in a cavalry unit or division.

A step or block to assist in mounting a horse.

A signal for mounting a horse.

(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.

(transitive) To get upon; to ascend; to climb.

(transitive) To place oneself on (a horse, a bicycle, etc.); to bestride.

(transitive) To cause to mount; to put on horseback; to furnish with animals for riding.

To cause (something) to rise or ascend; to drive up; to raise; to elevate; to lift up.

To sit on a combatants torso with the face pointing towards the opponent's head; to assume the mount position in ground grappling.

To rise on high; to go up; to be upraised or uplifted; to tower aloft; to ascend; often with up.

(transitive) To attach (an object) to a support, backing, framework etc.

To attach (a drive or device) to the file system in order to make it available to the operating system.

To increase in quantity or intensity.

(obsolete) To attain in value; to amount (to).

(transitive) To get on top of (another) for the purpose of copulation.

(transitive) To have sexual intercourse with someone.

(transitive) To begin (a campaign, military assault, etc.); to launch.

To deploy (cannon) for use.

(transitive) To prepare and arrange the scenery, furniture, etc. for use in (a play or production).

(cooking) To incorporate fat, especially butter, into (a dish, especially a sauce to finish it).

A mass of earth, or earth and rock, rising considerably above the common surface of the surrounding land; a mountain; a high hill; - used always instead of mountain, when put before a proper name; as, Mount Washington; otherwise, chiefly in poetry.

A bulwark for offense or defense; a mound.

A bank; a fund.

Any one of seven fleshy prominences in the palm of the hand which are taken as significant of the influence of "planets," and called the mounts of Jupiter, Mars, Mercury, the Moon, Saturn, the Sun or Apollo, and Venus.

That upon which a person or thing is mounted

The cardboard or cloth on which a drawing, photograph, or the like is mounted; a mounting.

To rise on high; to go up; to be upraised or uplifted; to tower aloft; to ascend; - often with up.

To get up on anything, as a platform or scaffold; especially, to seat one's self on a horse for riding.

To attain in value; to amount.

To get upon; to ascend; to climb; as, to mount the pulpit and deliver a sermon.

To place one's self on, as a horse or other animal, or anything that one sits upon; to bestride.

To cause to mount; to put on horseback; to furnish with animals for riding; to furnish with horses.

Hence: To put upon anything that sustains and fits for use, as a gun on a carriage, a map or picture on cloth or paper; to prepare for being worn or otherwise used, as a diamond by setting, or a sword blade by adding the hilt, scabbard, etc.; as, to mount a picture or diploma in a frame

To raise aloft; to lift on high.

A lightweight horse kept for riding only

The act of climbing something;

A land mass that projects well above its surroundings; higher than a hill

Mounting consisting of a piece of metal (as in a ring or other jewelry) that holds a gem in place;

Something forming a back that is added for strengthening

Attach to a support;

Go up or advance;

Fix onto a backing, setting, or support;

Put up or launch;

Get on the back of;

Go upward with gradual or continuous progress;

Prepare and supply with the necessary equipment for execution or performance;

Copulate with;