Talk:mounting

Webster 1913 gives this as a synonym of "carriage", glossed aeronautics. However, we don't seem to have such a sense at "carriage", and it's likely to be very dated. Equinox ◑ 04:06, 11 April 2015 (UTC)

RFD discussion: June 2023–January 2024

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mounting

Rfd-sense: That continues to mount; steadily accumulating. - probably just verbal usage, not a true-adj Mr. and Mrs. Bombastic (talk) 20:38, 1 June 2023 (UTC)

Delete. Just compare

•  the evidence is pretty damning ;
•  the evidence is pretty convincing ;
• *the evidence is pretty mounting.

So this fails one of the most basic adjectivality tests.  --Lambiam 21:13, 4 June 2023 (UTC)

When used like that, the present participle is pretty obvious (though "pretty mounting" raises my eyebrows), but used before a noun it modifies it. I would keep this all the same. Present and past participles are frequently used as adjectives, but I avoid creating entries for them, preferring to add a quote to the relevant participle. DonnanZ (talk) 23:19, 4 June 2023 (UTC)

Leaning keep – Cambridge Dictionary, Oxford Learner's Dictionaries and OED2 all have separate adjective entries for mounting. Einstein2 (talk) 09:11, 5 June 2023 (UTC)

Those refs are good enough for me. DonnanZ (talk) 09:22, 5 June 2023 (UTC)

Delete; the participle cannot be modified with very or compared with most. Moreover, I note that OED2 does not actually contain a sense that corresponds to ours. It is true that Cambridge has an entry. I would not consider learner's dictionaries useful for the lemming test - they will pick up common uses of particular non-lemma forms to assist their readers to understand typical English texts, which is not what we are aiming to do on this project. This, that and the other (talk) 02:24, 23 June 2023 (UTC)

Delete per Lambiam and This, that and the other. PUC – 06:41, 2 July 2023 (UTC)

• Kept. Going against consensus. Other dictionaries include it. Mountingly's existence is another decider. Denazz (talk) 22:14, 10 January 2024 (UTC)