mounting
adjectiveverbnounattested in dialogue
- //ˈmaʊntɪŋ//
That continues to mount; steadily rising or accumulating.
adjective
- 1
That continues to mount; steadily rising or accumulating.
mounting debts
steadily mounting losses
The pupils display great eagerness for knowledge and facility of acquisition. […] No severity of discipline is used or required; the threat of expulsion from the privileges of instruction being sufficient to tame the most mounting spirit.
About three or four minutes later still an express freight on the up main line ran into the wreckage at about 35 m.p.h. Its engine also overturned and 15 more wagons were added to the mounting pile of wreckage.
Etymology
From mount + -ing.
verb
- 1
Also a form of mountpresent participle and gerund of mount
noun
- 1
Something mounted to support something; an attachment.
The underframe also carries four bonded-rubber mountings, focused upwards and inwards towards the centre of gravity to suspend the body shell.
That particular plane must have hit an obstruction that ripped its undercarriage right off its mountings, to leave it suspended beneath.
- 2
The act of one who mounts.
The stage we had now commenced was eighteen miles in length; but the frequent mountings and dismountings, to climb or to descend the rocky sides of the mountains, made it appear much longer.
Forms
- plural
- mountings
mounting · That continues to mount; steadily rising or accumulating.
mourn · To express sadness or sorrow for; to grieve over (especially…mourning · The act of expressing or feeling sorrow or regret;…Mourning · A surname.