dismount.
To (cause to) get off (something).
Meaning & usage
To (cause to) get off (something).
She carefully dismounted from the horse.
She carefully dismounted the horse.
To make (a mounted drive) unavailable for use.
The VMS operator tried to dismount the Unix hard drive with the DISMOUNT DISK$NFSMOUNT command, instead of umount /mnt/nfshome.
To come down; to descend.
To throw (cannon) off their carriages.
Where this word comes from
From dis- + mount, probably a calque of Old French desmonter.
The act of stepping down from something being ridden, such as a skateboard.
Nice dismount!
The part of a routine in which the gymnast detaches from an apparatus.
It was a stylish routine, let down by a sloppy dismount.
Where this word comes from
From dis- + mount, probably a calque of Old French desmonter.
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