mounting
/ˈmaʊntɪŋ/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.86 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
That continues to mount; steadily rising or accumulating.
noun
Something mounted to support something; an attachment.
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "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."