remount

verb, noun — 10 senses

remount

verb

/ɹiːˈmaʊnt/

Etymology From Anglo-Norman remunter, Middle French remonter, later also reinforced by re- + mount.

7 senses
  1. 1To go up again; to rise another time.
  2. 2To help (someone) back on a horse.
  3. 3To get back on a horse, bicycle etc.
  4. 4To get back on (an animal, vehicle) again.
  5. 5To ascend (something) again.
  6. 6To fix (something) back into position.
  7. 7To mount (a drive or volume) again.
1

To go up again; to rise another time.

  • They remounted together to their sitting-room while Sir Claude, who said he would join them later, remained below to smoke and to converse with the old acquaintances that he met wherever he turned.1897, Henry James, What Maisie Knew:
2

To help (someone) back on a horse.

3

To get back on a horse, bicycle etc.

  • And, as it fell, his steed he ready found; / On whom remounting fiercely forth he rode […]1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto IV”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
  • We remounted and took up the same hard tempo.2013, Philipp Meyer, The Son, Simon & Schuster, published 2014, page 31:
4

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

  • Still agitated, she watched resentfully as two traffic policemen remounted their motorcycles.2000, JG Ballard, Super-Cannes, Fourth Estate, published 2011, page 378:
5

To ascend (something) again.

6

To fix (something) back into position.

7

Computing, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Sciences To mount (a drive or volume) again.

Derived terms
remountable, unremounted

remount

noun

/ˈɹiːmaʊnt/

Etymology From Anglo-Norman remunter, Middle French remonter, later also reinforced by re- + mount.

1

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

  • to give somebody a remount
2

Computing, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Sciences The process of mounting a drive or volume again.

3

The restaging of a play or film.

  • Sometimes I tell people she is auditioning for a remount of the musical “Hair”.2012, Kirsten Van Ritzen, The Comedy Diva Diaries, page 17:
  • By mid-January they announced a remount of the television classic Peter Pan.2020, Kelly Kessler, Broadway in the Box: Television's Lasting Love Affair with the Musical, page 232:

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