Assert and Mount

verb

• State categorically.
  • synonyms: asseverate, maintain
• To declare or affirm solemnly and formally as true.
  • usage: "Before God I swear I am innocent"
  • synonyms: affirm, verify, avow, aver, swan, swear
• Insist on having one's opinions and rights recognized.
  • usage: "Women should assert themselves more"
  • synonyms: put forward
• Assert to be true.
  • usage: "The letter asserts a free society"
  • synonyms: insist

• (v.t.) To maintain; to defend.
• (v.t.) To maintain or defend, as a cause or a claim, by words or measures; to vindicate a claim or title to; as, to assert our rights and liberties.
• (v.t.) To affirm; to declare with assurance or plainly and strongly; to state positively; to aver; to asseverate.

noun

• A lightweight horse kept for riding only.
  • synonyms: saddle horse, riding horse
• The act of climbing something.
  • usage: "it was a difficult climb to the top"
  • synonyms: climb
• A land mass that projects well above its surroundings; higher than a hill.
  • synonyms: mountain
• A mounting consisting of a piece of metal (as in a ring or other jewelry) that holds a gem in place.
  • usage: "the diamond was in a plain gold mount"
  • synonyms: setting
• Something forming a back that is added for strengthening.
  • synonyms: backing

verb

• Attach to a support.
  • usage: "They mounted the aerator on a floating"
• Go up or advance.
  • usage: "Sales were climbing after prices were lowered"
  • synonyms: wax, climb, rise
• Fix onto a backing, setting, or support.
  • usage: "mount slides for macroscopic analysis"
• Put up or launch.
  • usage: "mount a campaign against pornography"
• Get up on the back of.
  • usage: "mount a horse"
  • synonyms: hop on, mount up, get on, jump on, climb on, bestride
• Go upward with gradual or continuous progress.
  • usage: "Did you ever climb up the hill behind your house"
  • synonyms: climb, climb up, go up
• Prepare and supply with the necessary equipment for execution or performance.
  • usage: "mount a theater production"; "mount an attack"; "mount a play"
  • synonyms: put on
• Copulate with.
  • usage: "The bull was riding the cow"
  • synonyms: ride

• (v.) A mass of earth or earth and rock, rising considerably above the common surface of the surrounding land; a mountain; a high hill; -- used always instead of mountain, when put before a proper name; as, Mount Washington; otherwise, chiefly in poetry.
• (v.) A bank; a fund.
• (v.t.) To raise aloft; to lift on high.
• (v.) A bulwark for offense or defense; a mound.
• (v.) A horse.
• (v.) That upon which a person or thing is mounted.
• (v.t.) To cause to mount; to put on horseback; to furnish with animals for riding; to furnish with horses.
• (v.) The cardboard or cloth on which a drawing, photograph or the like is mounted; a mounting.
• (n.) To attain in value; to amount.
• (v.t.) To get upon; to ascend; to climb.
• (n.) To get up on anything, as a platform or scaffold; especially, to seat one's self on a horse for riding.
• (v.t.) To place one's self on, as a horse or other animal or anything that one sits upon; to bestride.
• (n.) To rise on high; to go up; to be upraised or uplifted; to tower aloft; to ascend; -- often with up.
• (v.t.) Hence: To put upon anything that sustains and fits for use, as a gun on a carriage, a map or picture on cloth or paper; to prepare for being worn or otherwise used, as a diamond by setting or a sword blade by adding the hilt, scabbard, etc.
• (n.) Any one of seven fleshy prominences in the palm of the hand which are taken as significant of the influence of "planets," and called the mounts of Jupiter, Mars, Mercury, the Moon, Saturn, the Sun or Apollo, and Venus.