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Definition: Ascendent |
AscendentAdjective1. Tending or directed upward; "rooted and ascendant strength like that of foliage"- John Ruskin. 2. Most powerful or important or influential; "the economically ascendant class"; "D-day is considered the dominating event of the war in Europe". Noun1. Position or state of being dominant or in control: "that idea was in the ascendant". 2. Someone from whom you are descended (but usually more remote that a grandparent). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "ascendent" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references) |
"Ascendent" is a common misspelling or typo for: ascendant. |
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Aerospace | The negative of the gradient. The ascendent of a function is a vector with magnitude equal to the maximum spatial rate of change of that function at a given point at a given time. It is directed toward increasing values of the function along the line of maximum change, and is represented by , where F is the function and the del-operator. (references) |
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Synonyms: AscendentSynonyms: ascensive (adj), dominating (adj), ancestor (n), antecedent (n), ascendant (n), root (n). (additional references) |
| Antonym: descendant (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Ascendent |
| Specialty definitions using "ascendent": halocline. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Ascendent" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Latin (ascend, climb, climb up, embark, go, mount, mount up, move upward, rise, scale), Romanian (ancestor, ascendancy, ascending, climbing, upward). |
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Expressions using "ascendent": be in the ascendent ♦ in the ascendent. Additional references. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
ascendent | 8 |
ascendent calculate | 5 |
ascendent telecommunication | 5 |
horoscope ascendent | 5 |
ascendent sign | 4 |
andromeda ascendent | 4 |
ascendent astrological | 3 |
ascendent astrology | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "ascendent"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Chinese | ä¸Šå‡ (Ascendant, Ascent, Climb, Climbed, Climbing, Raise, Raised, Raising, rise, risen, rising, uphill, uplifted). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
German | Aszendent. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | felszálló (ascendant). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ascendentay yükselen (ascendant, ascending, raising, rising, soaring, upgrade, uphill), nüfuzlu (ascendant, dominant, important, influential, of weight, potent, powerful, weighty), etkin (active, ascendant, effective, effectual, forceful, hard core, operative, prepotent, real), ekliptiğin yükselen noktası (ascendant), egemen (ascendant, dominant, prevailing, regnant, ruling, sovereign, sov'ran), üstün (above, ascendant, atop, atop of, choice, distingue, excellent, extra, golden, high, hyper-, over, predominant, pre-eminencent, preponderant, super, super-, super-duty, superior, supra-, transcendent, unsurpassed, up). (various references) uy thế (ascendancy, ascendant, ascendency), có uy lực (ascendant), ưu thế (ascendant, bulge, predominance, preponderance, supremacy, vantage-ground, vantage-point). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
| Language | Date | Source | Ezekiel Chapter 38, Verse 10 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Tade legei kurioV kurioV kai estai en th hmera ekeinh anabhsetai rhmata epi thn kardian sou kai logih logismouV ponhrouV |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Haec dicit Dominus Deus in die illa ascendent sermones super cor tuum et cogitabis cogitationem pessimam |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | These thingus saith the Lord God, In that day wordis shuln stye vp vpon thin herte, and thou shalt thenke the warst thouyt; |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | Thus saith the Lord GOD; It shall also come to pass, that at the same time shall things come into thy mind, and thou shalt think an evil thought: |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | Thus saith the Lord GOD; It shall also come to pass, that at the same time shall things come into thy mind, and thou shalt think an evil thought: |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | This is what the Lord has said: In that day it will come about that things will come into your mind, and you will have thoughts of an evil design: |
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| Language | Ezekiel Chapter 38, Verse 10 |
| Cebuano | Mao kini ang giingon sa Ginoong Jehova: Kini mahinabo niadtong adlawa, nga ang mga butang motungha sa imong hunahuna, ug ikaw magalalang sa usa ka lalang nga dautan: |
| Chinese | 主 耶 å'Œ è¯ å¦‚ æ¤ èªª 〠到 é‚£ 時 ä½ å¿ƒ å¿… èµ· æ„ å¿µ 〠圖 謀 惡 計 〠|
| Croatian | Ovako govori Jahve Gospod: 'U onaj æe ti se dan misli rojiti u srcu i skovat æeš zao naum. |
| Danish | Så siger den Herre HERREN: På hin Dag skal en Tanke stige op i dit Hjerte, og du skal oplægge onde Råd |
| Dutch | Alzo zegt de Heere HEERE: Te dien dage zal het ook geschieden, dat er raadslagen in uw hart zullen opkomen, en gij zult een kwade gedachte denken, |
| Finnish | Näin sanoo Herra, Herra: Mutta sinä päivänä tulee mieleesi jotakin, ja sinä mietit pahan juonen |
| French | Ainsi parle le Seigneur, l`Éternel: En ce jour-là , des pensées s`élèveront dans ton coeur, Et tu formeras de mauvais desseins. |
| German | So spricht der HERR HERR: Zu der Zeit wirst du solches vornehmen und wirst Böses im Sinn haben |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | TUHAN Yang Mahatinggi berkata kepada Gog, "Pada saat itu engkau akan membuat rencana yang jahat. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Demikianlah firman Tuhan Hua: Pada hari itu juga akan terbit kepikiran dalam hatimu, dan engkaupun akan mereka barang yang jahat. |
| Italian | Dice il Signore Dio: In quel giorno ti verranno in mente dei pensieri e concepirai progetti malvagi. |
| Korean | 나 주 ì—¬ 호 와 ê°€ ë§ í•˜ ë…¸ ë¼ ê·¸ ë‚ ì— ë„¤ 마 ìŒ ì— ì„œ ì—¬ 러 ê°€ 지 ìƒ ê° ì´ ë‚˜ ì„œ ì•… í•œ ê¾€ 를 ë‚´ ì–´ |
| Maori | Ko te kupu tenei a te Ariki, a Ihowa; Na, i taua ra ka puta ake he mea i tou ngakau, a ka whakaaroa e koe he whakaaro nanakia. |
| Norwegian | Så sier Herren, Israels Gud: På den dag skal tanker stige op i ditt hjerte, og du skal tenke ut et ondt råd |
| Portuguese | Assim diz o Senhor Deus: Acontecerá naquele dia que terás altivos projetos no teu coração, e maquinarás um mau designio. |
| Rumanian | Awa vorbewte Domnul Dumnezeu: ,,Kn ziua aceea, multe gknduri kyi vor veni kn minte, wi vei urzi planuri rele. |
| Swedish | Så säger Herren, HERREN: På den tiden skola planer uppstå i ditt hjärta, och du skall tänka ut onda anslag. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "ascendent": ascendents. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: tendances. | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-d-e-e-n-n-s-t" | |
-1 letter: canteens, scandent, tendance. | |
-2 letters: candent, canteen, cetanes, decanes, decants, descant, descent, enacted, encased, enneads, nascent, neatens, scanned, scanted, scented, standee, tenaces. | |
-3 letters: anenst, anteed, ascend, ascent, cadent, cadets, canned, canted, ceased, censed, centas, cetane, dances, decane, decant, decent, enacts, enates, encase, ennead, nances, neaten, nested, sateen, seance, seated, secant, sedate, senate, seneca, sennet. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-d-e-e-n-n-s-t" | |
+1 letter: ascendents, candescent, condensate, descendant. | |
+2 letters: antecedents, attendances, clandestine, condensates, contredanse, descendants, intendances, transcended. | |
+3 letters: advancements, antecedences, codefendants, consternated, contredanses, decongestant, disenchanted, disenchanter, incandescent, transcendent. | |
+4 letters: clandestinely, containerised, decongestants, disenchanters, identicalness, inadvertences, incandescents, inconsiderate, transcendence, transcendency, uncompensated, unconsecrated. | |
+5 letters: accidentalness, confederations, coordinateness, counterdemands, counterstained, decompensating, decompensation, deconcentrates, deconsecrating, deconsecration, decontaminates, discountenance, disenchantment, disinheritance, inadvertencies, incandescently, indelicateness, nonattendances, nonclandestine, transcendences, transcendental, transcendently, unaffectedness. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)41 73 63 65 6E 64 65 6E 74 |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references).- ... -.-. . -. -.. . -. - |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000001 01110011 01100011 01100101 01101110 01100100 01100101 01101110 01110100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)A s c e n d e n t |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0041 0073 0063 0065 006E 0064 0065 006E 0074 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)358569718070718086 |
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