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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
mounting
I.adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
growing/mounting concern
▪ Growing concern has been expressed over the pollution of the North Sea.
growing/mounting criticism
▪ The government was faced with mounting criticism at home and abroad.
growing/mounting excitement
▪ The children waited with growing excitement.
growing/mounting opposition (=opposition that is increasing)
▪ There was growing opposition to the war.
growing/mounting unrest
▪ Rocketing unemployment led to growing unrest in the country.
growing/mounting/rising panic (=increasing panic)
▪ She quickly packed a bag, trying all the time to control her mounting panic.
growing/rising/mounting anger
▪ There is growing anger among drivers over the rise in fuel prices.
increasing/growing/mounting/rising tension
▪ There are reports of increasing tension in some areas.
increasing/mounting anxiety
▪ There is mounting anxiety about the rise in violent crime.
increasing/mounting pressure
▪ There was increasing pressure on the Chancellor to cut petrol tax.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Amid mounting excitement, an official came forward to announce the result of the election.
▪ Another year of mounting losses proved too much for Pepperdine's basketball coach.
▪ He struggled on in the face of mounting debts,
▪ The decision has been the cause of mounting tension in the capital.
▪ The fighting capped weeks of mounting tensions in the area.
▪ the nation's mounting foreign debt
▪ There are reports of mounting violence in the village tribes.
▪ What are the reasons for mounting unemployment in the Arab countries?
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A mounting clip is available for fixing the alarm in larger openings.
II.noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
criticism
▪ The response to mounting criticism is to reorganise or complain of lack of resources.
▪ The government's response to mounting criticism was to crack down on the principal advocates of reform.
debt
▪ They shouldn't fall into the Spurs trap of mounting debts and asset-stripping sales of star players.
▪ Arthur Davidson has closed his London antique shop of that name under pressure of mounting debt.
▪ With no money being deposited into his bank account, John's overdraft began to reflect mounting debts.
evidence
▪ The government was persistently unwilling to amend Poor Law principles to take account of the mounting evidence of extensive involuntary unemployment.
pressure
▪ Together, the Doctor and Bishop scrambled through the inner door against the mounting pressure of air.
▪ We expect to find it increasingly difficult to do so at short notice because our budgets are under mounting pressure.
▪ Heseltine came under mounting pressure to stand in the forthcoming leadership election.
▪ It was also the result of mounting pressure from the late 1870s for more humane treatment of the aged.
tension
▪ You can feel the tension mounting.
■ VERB
face
▪ Now he faces the bill and mounting costs.
feel
▪ As for myself, I was feeling a mounting confidence in my capabilities - I was of use.
▪ She felt his excitement mounting, and to accommodate him, she screamed.
▪ She felt a mounting sense of triumph at taking money home to Paul.
▪ You can feel the tension mounting.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ The engine is supported by four rubberized mountings.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Faults were discovered in the mountings on the crash barriers around the top deck of the car park in July.
▪ I wince every time I watch a two-stroke apparently trying to tear itself from the mountings.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Mounting

Mounting \Mount"ing\, n.

  1. The act of one that mounts.

  2. That by which anything is prepared for use, or set off to advantage; equipment; embellishment; setting; as, the mounting of a sword or diamond.

  3. (A["e]ronautics) same as Carriage.

Mounting

Mount \Mount\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Mounted; p. pr. & vb. n. Mounting.] [OE. mounten, monten, F. monter, fr. L. mons, montis, mountain. See Mount, n. (above).]

  1. To rise on high; to go up; to be upraised or uplifted; to tower aloft; to ascend; -- often with up.

    Though Babylon should mount up to heaven.
    --Jer. li. 53.

    The fire of trees and houses mounts on high.
    --Cowley.

  2. To get up on anything, as a platform or scaffold; especially, to seat one's self on a horse for riding.

  3. To attain in value; to amount.

    Bring then these blessings to a strict account, Make fair deductions, see to what they mount.
    --Pope.

Wiktionary
mounting
  1. that continues to mount; steadily accumulating. n. 1 Something mounted; an attachment. 2 The act of one who mounts. v

  2. (present participle of mount English)

WordNet
mounting
  1. n. an event that involves rising to a higher point (as in altitude or temperature or intensity etc.) [syn: climb, climbing]

  2. framework used for support or display

Wikipedia

Usage examples of "mounting".

To this Harriet assented, and leaving a message for Chatterton, they entered the coach of Marian, and Pendennyss, mounting the dickey, drove off.

Their copious, rather liquid droppings fouled every inch of any surface whereon people walked, and for all its civic pride, Alexandria seemed to employ no one to wash the mounting excreta away.

Now a young girl appeared before him, a girl with golden skin, as beautiful a girl as any that ever was, a kind girl who helped him out of his sticky shirt, his pants, too, an excellent measure considering the mounting stuffiness of these close quarters, soft caramel limbs coaxing him out onto the floor, where, stripped to a tattered pair of black boxer shorts, drums thudding eloquently in liturgical cadence, he embarked on a hunt for the great prey.

He tries to help to maintain the balance me requested she, maintaining it with the arms and mounting behind him.

Pokier helped in working out the Halbmodelle solution: bisecting the model lengthwise and mounting it flat-side to the wall of the test chamber, bringing the tubes through that way to all the manometers outside.

Below them lay the dull grey of the turret armour, the Breda twin 40 millimetre barrels elevated from the compact mounting in the centre.

We do the work of mounting and filing, of collecting offprints of learned articles, and we also look after the visitors who come to consult our archives.

Already her palfrey had been saddled and Edwin held the bridle and drew the horse close to the mounting block, then assisted Gisela into the saddle.

They went out and down the steps and found Periwinkle waiting patiently by the mounting block.

Orchestra laboring, ceaseless mounting chords, no climax large enough though, disappointment coming, modulation, withdrawal, rearousal, no end either.

With mounting rage, Scurn looked left and right as others of his companions abandoned him.

Swift, the young inventor, whose acquaintance some of you have previously made, gave one look at the gauge, and seeing that the pressure was steadily mounting, endeavored to reach, and open, a stopcock, that he might relieve the strain.

Women are pleased to see their favourite in the place of prominence--as long as Fortune swims him unbuffeted, or one should say, unbattered, up the mounting wave.

Acceptance of this idea was fostered by the mounting accumulation of evidence of the practical disadvantages and malpractices attendant upon legislative selection, such as deadlocks within legislatures resulting in vacancies remaining unfilled for substantial intervals, the influencing of legislative selection by corrupt political organizations and special interest groups through purchase of legislative seats, and the neglect of duties by legislators as a consequence of protracted electoral contests.

Lastly, and most anxiously, there was the mounting mountain of unreturned phone calls and E-mail, the ribbon of numbers on my pager.