ascend, go up
(verb) travel up; “We ascended the mountain”; “go up a ladder”; “The mountaineers slowly ascended the steep slope”
ascend, move up, rise
(verb) move to a better position in life or to a better job; “She ascended from a life of poverty to one of great renown”
rise, come up, uprise, ascend
(verb) come up, of celestial bodies; “The sun also rises”; “The sun uprising sees the dusk night fled...”; “Jupiter ascends”
ascend
(verb) slope upwards; “The path ascended to the top of the hill”
ascend
(verb) go along towards (a river’s) source; “The boat ascended the Delaware”
ascend
(verb) become king or queen; “She ascended to the throne after the King’s death”
ascend
(verb) go back in order of genealogical succession; “Inheritance may not ascend linearly”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
ascend (third-person singular simple present ascends, present participle ascending, simple past and past participle ascended)
(intransitive) To move upward, to fly, to soar.
(intransitive) To slope in an upward direction.
(transitive) To go up.
(transitive) To succeed.
(intransitive, figurative) To rise; to become higher, more noble, etc.
To trace, search or go backwards temporally (e.g, through records, genealogies, routes, etc.).
(transitive, music) To become higher in pitch.
• descend
• Dances, dances, decans, descan
Source: Wiktionary
As*cend", v. i. [imp. & p. p. Ascended; p. pr. & vb. n. Ascending.] Etym: [L. ascendere; ad + scandere to climb, mount. See Scan.]
1. To move upward; to mount; to go up; to rise; -- opposed to Ant: descend. Higher yet that star ascends. Bowring. I ascend unto my father and your father. John xx. 17.
Note: Formerly used with up. The smoke of it ascended up to heaven. Addison.
2. To rise, in a figurative sense; to proceed from an inferior to a superior degree, from mean to noble objects, from particulars to generals, from modern to ancient times, from one note to another more acute, etc.; as, our inquiries ascend to the remotest antiquity; to ascend to our first progenitor.
Syn.
– To rise; mount; climb; scale; soar; tower.
As*cend", v. t.
Definition: To go or move upward upon or along; to climb; to mount; to go up the top of; as, to ascend a hill, a ladder, a tree, a river, a throne.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
27 July 2024
(adjective) ill-mannered and coarse and contemptible in behavior or appearance; “was boorish and insensitive”; “the loutish manners of a bully”; “her stupid oafish husband”; “aristocratic contempt for the swinish multitude”
Coffee dates back to the 9th century. Goat herders in Ethiopia noticed their goats seem to be “dancing” after eating berries from a particular shrub. They reported it to the local monastery, and a monk made a drink out of it. The monk found out he felt energized and kept him awake at night. That’s how the first coffee drink was born.
