Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: mounting
IPA transcription: [m'aʊntɪŋ]
Pronunciations of mounting
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noun meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: mounting
    Meaning: framework used for support or display
  • Synonyms: climb, climbing, mounting
    Meaning: an event that involves rising to a higher point (as in altitude or temperature or intensity etc.)
Usage examples
  • Once more mounting her, he rode rapidly away.
  • One brave had succeeded in capturing and mounting a horse before the white men could reach him.
  • I felt my centre of gravity shifting its place, and giddiness mounting into my brain like drunkenness.
  • Here was a wooden fence,--a most unusual thing,--and I lost no time in mounting it, to rest and look about me.
  • Air-tight joints in the pipes which lead to the compressed air reservoir are placed in the bearings of this mounting.
  • In the center of the compartment, on a massively braced universal joint mounting, was what I took for the repellor generator.
  • There was no sound but that of the distant breakers, mounting from all round, and the chirp of countless insects in the brush.
  • But the minister had had, as we have said, an alarming attack of gout, and the tide of flattery was mounting towards the throne.
  • "Well then," said Don Quixote, "while we are mounting you can at least tell me if I am that Don Quixote whom you said you vanquished."
  • But the gallantry of her friends would not allow of this; and the man in faded black, mounting the breach first, produced his plunder.
0. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Zelda Fitzgerald, License CC BY-SA 4.0
1. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Red Scare, License CC BY-SA 4.0
2. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Bicycle lighting, License CC BY-SA 4.0
3. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Edward Low, License CC BY-SA 4.0