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单词 mountant
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mountantn.1adj.

Forms: Middle English–1800s mountant, 1500s mountante.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: mount v., -ant suffix1.
Etymology: < mount v. + -ant suffix1. Compare earlier ascendant adj. 1.With use as adjective compare Middle French, French montant , present participle of monter (see mount v.), although the French word is not found in the passage translated in quot. 1525 at sense B.
Obsolete.
A. n.1
Astrology. = ascendant n. 1.
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the world > the universe > celestial sphere > zone of celestial sphere > [noun] > Zodiac > ascendant
ascendantc1386
horoscopec1400
mountanta1500
significator1593
a1500 (?a1425) tr. Secreta Secret. (Lamb.) 112 (MED) Stable þou þe mountant, or þe vpspryngand, yn þe tokenynge of þe Lyon..And stable with þe mountant, or þe hous of þe mountant, yn þe house of Marz.
B. adj.
Mounting, rising.
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the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > upward movement > [adjective] > moving upwards
uprisinga1300
risingc1450
ascensial?1504
mountant1525
mounting1550
orienta1560
ascendant1591
surgenta1592
stying1593
ambitiousc1595
arising1605
ascensive1646
subliming1666
ascending1667
ascensional1753
upmounting1794
rearing1816
upcoming1835
aspirant1845
insurrectionary1864
upgoing1896
the world > relative properties > number > enumeration, reckoning, or calculation > [adjective] > forming total
mountant1525
amounting?a1560
mounting?a1560
1525 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles II. 658 They caused him to have, in ready money, mountante to the somme of thyrty thousande pounds.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Timon of Athens (1623) iv. iii. 136 Hold vp you Sluts Your Aprons mountant; you are not Othable, Although I know you'l sweare. View more context for this quotation
a1628 C. Brooke Poems (1872) 222 That fyre shall make hym mountant, and aspire A radiant light.
1688 T. D'Urfey Fool's Preferment iv. 51 You give for your Coat Argent, a Polecat Mountant Azure, a Bar direct between Culters pendant Sables.
1812 W. Tennant Anster Fair ii. lxiii. 48 Tumblers..mountant from the scaffold's planks, Kick with their whirling heels the clouds on high.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online September 2021).

mountantn.2

Brit. /ˈmaʊnt(ə)nt/, U.S. /ˈmaʊn(t)ənt/
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: mount n.2, -ant suffix1.
Etymology: < mount n.2 + -ant suffix1.
1. Photography. An adhesive used for mounting photographs for display.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > photography > photographic processes > processing and printing equipment > [noun] > mounting equipment
mountant1886
tacking iron1973
1886 Queen 80 538 Several mountants are daily employed, such as common glue, gum, and clear starch paste.
1892 Photogr. Ann. II. 956 Any gelatine mountant.
1900 Amateur Photographer 31 Aug. 173/2 (heading) A cheap mountant.
1973 D. A. Spencer Focal Dict. Photogr. Technol. 396 Dextrin, starch paste, gelatin, rubber solution and dry mounting tissues are typical photographic mountants.
2. Chiefly Biology. A transparent substance in which a slide-mounted specimen or section is immersed or embedded for microscopic examination, esp. (for permanent mounts) one that is applied as a liquid which subsequently solidifies.
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1911 New Phytologist 10 105 Professor Nathorst..brought to my notice a method of sealing up slides in which glycerine was used as the mountant.
1921 C. A. Ealand Romance of Microscope xxii. 301 In a few days the mountant will set, and we need take no further precautions with the slides in which Balsam was used.
1970 Watsonia 8 14 The aluminium stub, covered with the appropriate mountant, was inverted and pressed gently on to the spore-mass.
1993 Freshwater Biol. 29 37 This difference is largely attributable to the mountant we used during identification.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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