| 单词 | dismount |
| 释义 | dismount (once / 586 pages) vn To dismount is to get or climb off of something. An important part of learning to ride a horse is learning how to dismount. When you ride your bike to work, you'll have to dismount and lock it up before you go inside, and when a gymnast dismounts from the balance beam, she does it with a flourish, sometimes cartwheeling off the end — this move itself is called a dismount. Dismount combines the "opposite of" prefix dis- with the verb mount, or "get up on," from its Latin root mons, "mountain." WORD FAMILYdismount: dismounted, dismounting, dismounts+/mount: dismount, mounted, mounter, mounting, mounts, remount/mounter: mounters/mounting: mountings/remount: remounted, remounting, remounts USAGE EXAMPLESAbiding images are of Seve careering down the fairways of Valderrama in his buggy or, having dismounted, surveying the battlefield from a hill. BBC(Sep 27, 2016) And they weren’t watching him because he was so good at doing dismounts from the parallel bars. Gary D. Schmidt, Orbiting Jupiter(2015) He dismounted and handed his reins to one of his men. George Dawson, Life Is So Good(2000) 1v alight from (a horse) Syn|Hyper get down, get off, light, unhorse come down, descend, fall, go down move downward and lower, but not necessarily all the way 2n the act of dismounting (a horse or bike etc.) Hyper discontinuance, discontinuation the act of discontinuing or breaking off; an interruption (temporary or permanent) |
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