Dismounted

Definition: Dismounted

Dismounted

Adjective

1. (used of cavalry) fighting as infantry.

Date "dismounted" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Synonyms: Dismounted

Synonyms by domain: disassembling (mechanical engineering, transportation), disassembly, dismantling, dismounting, to dismount (sports & leisure).

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Crosswords: Dismounted

Specialty definitions using "dismounted": man portable. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Dismounted

Domain	Title
Books	History of the Tenth Texas Cavalry Dismounted Regiment, 1861-1865: 'If We Ever Got Whipped, I Don't Recollect It' (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Photo Album: Dismounted

Thumbnail	Description & Credit	Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Fort Pulaski, Ga. Dismounted mortar. Credit: Library of Congress.		Fort Fisher, N.C. Interior view, showing traverse with dismounted gun. Credit: Library of Congress.
	Fort Riley, Kansas. Dismounted attack of a reconnaissance unit during a field problem. Credit: Library of Congress.		Camp Funston, Kansas. Dismounted review for General Millikan. Credit: Library of Congress.
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Use in Literature: Dismounted

Title	Author	Quote
Les Miserables	Hugo, Victor	A number of batteries lay dismounted.
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man	Joyce, James	And he remembered an evening when he had dismounted from a borrowed creaking bicycle to pray to God in a wood near Malahide.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Dismounted

Subject	Topic	Quote
Human Rights	Bolivia	After the security forces dismounted they allegedly were attacked by a sniper (which had happened several times in the previous few weeks). (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Dismounted

"Dismounted" is generally used as a lexical verb (past tense) -- approximately 78.18% of the time. "Dismounted" is used about 110 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Lexical Verb (past tense)	78.18%	86	35,638
Lexical Verb (past participle)	13.64%	15	90,616
Adjective (general or positive)	7.27%	8	124,375
Noun (proper)	0.91%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	110	N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Dismounted

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day
dismounted improperly partition	5
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Dismounted

Language		Translations for "dismounted"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Chinese		卸下 (Dismount, Dismounting). (various references)

German		abgesessen. (various references)

Hebrew		מור�" (lowered, turned down). (various references)

Korean		내리�" (unloaded). (various references)

Pig Latin		ismountedday

Russian		снимать снятый (skim, skimmed). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Dismounted

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "d-d-e-i-m-n-o-s-t-u"
	-2 letters: demonist, demounts, dismount, medusoid, mistuned, muddiest, mudstone, mueddins, oddments, stounded.
	-3 letters: demount, dentoid, desmoid, dimouts, distend, distome, domines, dunites, dustmen, emodins, endmost, mestino, middens, mindset, minuets, minuted, minutes, misdone, mistend, mistune, modiste, moisten, mounded, mounted, muddies, mueddin, mutined, mutines, noddies, oddment, outside, sentimo, snouted, sounded, studdie, studied, tedious, tediums, timeous, toddies.
	-4 letters: demits.
	Words containing the letters "d-d-e-i-m-n-o-s-t-u"
	+2 letters: misconducted.
	+3 letters: demodulations, misunderstood.
	+4 letters: undomesticated.
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