overmountとは 意味・読み方・使い方

形容詞

overmount (not comparable)

1. Mounted over something else.

   Antonym: undermount

動詞

overmount (third-person singular simple present overmounts, present participle overmounting, simple past and past participle overmounted)

1. (transitive) To tower over; to go or rise higher than.
   • 1845, Sylvester Judd, Margaret: a Tale of Real and Ideal:

     the pretty purple ground-nut, which, despising its name, overmounts the tallest shrubs

名詞

overmount (plural overmounts)

1. A piece of shaped cardboard used to prevent the glass of the frame from lying too closely upon an engraving or a picture.

参照

• “overmount”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.