Mount a remote disk that has some free space on it. Most desktops will automatically mount the USB disks upon insertion.

1. To climb or ascend: mount stairs. 2. To place oneself upon; get up on: mount a horse; mount a platform. 3. To climb onto (a female) for copulation. Used of male animals. 4. a. To furnish with a horse for riding.

If you mount the stairs or a platform, you go up the stairs or go up onto the platform.

There are 13 meanings listed in OED's entry for the noun mount, six of which are labelled obsolete. See ‘Meaning & use’ for definitions, usage, and quotation evidence.

to attach to or fix on or in a support, backing, setting, etc.: to mount a photograph; to mount a diamond in a ring. to arrange for display: to mount a museum exhibit.

Mount is no longer used as a generic synonym for mountain except in poetry and other literary contexts. An example is the fossilized form within the phrase Sermon on the Mount.

To mount is to climb up something, like a ladder, or get on the back of something, like a horse. You can also mount something on another object, like a camera on a tripod or a sticker on a notebook.

A mount is a place from which something is supported or attached, usually in a raised position. In a broader sense, it can also refer to an act of climbing or ascending, especially on something larger such as a horse or a bicycle.