A Topical Dictionary: Search for ascent

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Noun

The act of ascending. A motion upwards.
: Example: he made a tedious ascent of Mont Blanc
The way or means by which one ascends.
: Example: There is a difficult northern ascent from Malaucene of Mont Ventoux
An eminence, hill, or high place.
The degree of elevation of an object, or the angle it makes with a horizontal line; inclination; rising grade.
: Example: the road has an ascent of 5 degrees

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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Ascent \As*cent"\ [Formed like descent, as if from a F. ascente,
fr. a verb ascendre, fr. L. ascendere. See Ascend,
Descent.]
1. The act of rising; motion upward; rise; a mounting upward;
as, he made a tedious ascent; the ascent of vapors from
the earth.
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To him with swift ascent he up returned. --Milton.
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2. The way or means by which one ascends.
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3. An eminence, hill, or high place. --Addison.
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4. The degree of elevation of an object, or the angle it
makes with a horizontal line; inclination; rising grade;
as, a road has an ascent of five degrees.
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WordNet ascent
n 1: an upward slope or grade (as in a road); "the car couldn't
make it up the rise" [syn: acclivity, rise, raise,
climb, upgrade] [ant: descent]
2: a movement upward; "they cheered the rise of the hot-air
balloon" [syn: rise, rising, ascension] [ant: fall]
3: the act of changing location in an upward direction [syn: rise,
ascension, ascending]

Moby Dictionary
Brownian movement , Great Leap Forward , abruptness , access ,
accession , acclivity , accretion , accrual , accruement , accumulation ,
addition , advance , advancement , aggrandizement , airiness ,
amelioration , amendment , amplification , angular motion , apotheosis ,
appreciation , ascending , ascension , assumption , augmentation ,
axial motion , backflowing , backing , backward motion , ballooning ,
beatification , bettering , betterment , bloating , boom , boost ,
broadening , bubbliness , buildup , buoyancy , canonization , career ,
climb , climbing , course , crescendo , current , daintiness ,
deification , delicacy , descending , descent , development , downiness ,
downward motion , drift , driftage , ebbing , edema , elevation ,
enhancement , enlargement , enrichment , enshrinement , erection ,
escalation , ethereality , eugenics , euthenics , exaltation ,
expansion , extension , flight , floatability , flood , flow ,
fluffiness , flux , foaminess , forward motion , frothiness ,
furtherance , gain , gentleness , gossameriness , greatening , growth ,
gush , headway , height , hike , improvement , increase , increment ,
inflation , jump , lack of weight , leap , levitation , levity , lift ,
lifting , lightness , melioration , mend , mending , mounting ,
multiplication , oblique motion , ongoing , onrush , passage , pickup ,
plunging , precipitousness , preferment , productiveness , progress ,
progression , proliferation , promotion , radial motion , raise ,
raising , random motion , rearing , recovery , reflowing , refluence ,
reflux , regression , restoration , retrogression , revival , rise ,
rising , rising ground , run , rush , set , sideward motion , sinking ,
snowballing , soaring , softness , spread , steepness , sternway ,
stream , subsiding , surge , sursum corda , swelling , tenderness ,
traject , trajet , trend , tumescence , unheaviness , up , upbeat ,
upbuoying , upcast , upclimb , upgo , upgrade , upheaval , uphill ,
uplift , uplifting , upping , uprearing , uprise , uprising , upsurge ,
upswing , upthrow , upthrust , uptrend , upturn , upward mobility ,
upward motion , verticalness , vise , volatility , waxing ,
weightlessness , widening , yeastiness