remount

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English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

Verb

remount (third-person singular simple present remounts, present participle remounting, simple past and past participle remounted)

  1. (intransitive) To go up again; to rise another time.
    • 1897, Henry James, What Maisie Knew:
      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.
  2. (transitive) To help (someone) back on a horse.
  3. (intransitive) To get back on a horse, bicycle etc.
  4. (transitive) To get back on (an animal, vehicle) again.
    • 2000, JG Ballard, Super-Cannes, Fourth Estate, published 2011, page 378:
      Still agitated, she watched resentfully as two traffic policemen remounted their motorcycles.
  5. (transitive) To ascend (something) again.
  6. (transitive) To fix (something) back into position.
  7. (transitive, computing) To mount (a drive or volume) again.

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Noun

remount (plural remounts)

  1. The opportunity of, or things necessary for, remounting; specifically, a fresh horse, with its equipment.
    to give somebody a remount
  2. (computing) The process of mounting a drive or volume again.
  3. The restaging of a play or film.
    • 2012, Kirsten Van Ritzen, The Comedy Diva Diaries, page 17:
      Sometimes I tell people she is auditioning for a remount of the musical “Hair”.
    • 2020, Kelly Kessler, Broadway in the Box: Television's Lasting Love Affair with the Musical, page 232:
      By mid-January they announced a remount of the television classic Peter Pan.

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