Ascent

Definition: Ascent

Ascent

Noun

1. An upward slope or grade (as in a road); "the car couldn't make the grade".

2. A movement upward; "they cheered the rise of the hot-air balloon".

3. The act of changing location in an upward direction.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "ascent" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Geography

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ASCENT

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Synonyms: Ascent

Ascent

Noun: ascent, ascension; rising; acclivity, hill; flight of steps, flight of stairs; ladder

Improvement

Noun: improvement; amelioration, melioration; betterment; mend, amendment, emendation; mending; Verb: advancement; advance; (progress); ascent; promotion, preferment; elevation; increase; cultivation, civilization; culture, march of intellect; menticulture; race-culture, eugenics.

Increase

Noun: increase, augmentation, enlargement, extension; dilatation; (expansion); increment, accretion; accession; development, growth; aggrandizement, aggravation; rise; ascent; exaggeration exacerbation; spread; (dispersion); flood tide; gain, produce, product, profit.

Obliquity

Acclivity, rise, ascent, gradient, khudd, rising ground, hill, bank, declivity, downhill, dip, fall, devexity; gentle slope, rapid slope, easy ascent, easy descent; shelving beach; talus; monagne Russe; facilis descensus averni.

Repute

Elevation; ascent; superaltation, exaltation; dignification, aggrandizement. dedication, consecration, enthronement, canonization, celebration, enshrinement, glorification.

Crosswords: Ascent

The first barrier in the ascent of Everest is a huge ice fall. (The Man Who Skied Down Everest; writing credit: Kyle Onstott; Jack Kirkland)

The Ascent of Man (1973)

Ascent Captain Deasy's Daring Drive (1903)

Final Ascent (2000)

Dark Angel: The Ascent (1994)

Ascent of Mount Everest (1983)

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References

• Ascent Assurance, Inc.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

• Ascent Entertainment Group, Inc.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

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Books

• Means of Ascent (The Years of Lyndon Johnson, Volume 2) (reference)

• Minus 148 Degrees: The First Winter Ascent of Mount McKinley (reference)

• The Ascent of a Leader: How Ordinary Relationships Develop Extraordinary Character and Influence (reference)

• The Ascent of Eli Israel: And Other Stories (reference)

• The Ascent of Man (reference)

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Periodicals

• Ascent (reference)

• Morningstar Ascent 2.0 - Cd-rom - Quarterly - Windows (reference)

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Theater & Movies

• The Prophecy 3: The Ascent (reference)

• Ascent of the Chimps (reference)

• Star Trek - Deep Space Nine, Episode 107: The Ascent (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Ascent of Mann: Fontana Years (Remastere [IMPORT] (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

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Lunar Module Ascent Stage. Credit: NASA.

Sounding machine devised by Robert Hooke Drop glass ball with weight over side Ball disengages when weight hits bottom Known rate of descent and ascent - can then derive depth Never worked right. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

The first hydrogen gas balloon ascent in: "Histoire des Ballons et des Aeronautes Celebres," by Gaston Tissandier, 1887, p. 16. Library Call Number TL616 .T57 1887. Credit: Treasures of the Library.

The second manned balloon ascent on October 17, 1783, to a height of 108 meters. This ascent also was made by the Marquis d'Arlandes and Pilatre de Rozier. "Histoire des Ballons et des Aeronautes Celebres," by Gaston Tissandier, 1887, p. 26. Library Call Number TL616 .T57 1887. Credit: Treasures of the Library.

Large rawinsonde balloon is released in foreground It will measure atmospheric conditions during ascent. In the background are surface weather instruments. These measure temperature, relative humidity, pressure and precipitation. A mobile radar unit is also shown. Credit: National Severe Storms Laboratory (NSSL).

Figure 21. Silvertown Company sounder, a device very similar to the Belknap- Sigsbee sounder with one important difference. This sounder had a unique ballast release method which involved a knife cutting the line holding the ballast upon beginning of ascent. This device was used in cable laying surveys. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.

Figure 23. Kofoid net devised by Charles A. Kofoid of the University of Califor nia at Berkeley in 1909. Above: in the functioning position. Lower left: in descent. Lower right: upon ascent. This net sampling system was meant to guarantee the verticality of the cable and sampling at the exact depth desired. It was tested off San Diego in 1909 at 1000 meters depth. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.

The other ascent into the unknown / Herblock. Credit: Library of Congress.

Beginning the ascent, Mt. Wash. Ry., White Mountains. Credit: Library of Congress.

Ascent to flagstaff, Fort Monroe, Va. Credit: Library of Congress.

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It is at this point that the ascent of the hill begins.

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Health

As air pressure in a plane is reduced, pressure can build up in your head blocking your sinuses or eustachian tubes in your ears. Therefore, you might feel discomfort in your sinus or middle ear during the plane's ascent or descent. (references)

Economic History

Indonesia

Fretilin's ascent in an area contiguous to Indonesian territory alarmed the Indonesian Government, which regarded it as a threatening movement. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Ascent of scorpions

Expressions using "ascent": balloon ascent ♦ dirigible balloon ascent ♦ easy ascent ♦ line of ascent ♦ method of steepest ascent ♦ place of ascent ♦ thermal ascent. Additional references.

Beginning with "ascent": ascent-descent.

Ending with "ascent": junkie-ascent, re-ascent.

Afrikaans

beklimming (climbing, mounting). (various references)

Albanian

ngjitje (adhesion, agglutination, ascension, boost, clamber, climbing, contagion, elevation, gluing, Mount, osculation, soldering, splice, sticking, transmission, up, upbeat, upgrade, welding), kthim prapa (lapse, throwback), hipje në pozitë, hipje (climb, jump, Mount, mounting, rise). (various references)

Arabic 

‏مرتقي, ‏تقدم (advance, advanced, advancement, advantage, antecedence, break through, career, careerist, come on, crowd, descend, development, evolution, forge ahead, forward, gain ground, gain one's destination, get along, get forward, get on, get up, go ahead, go up, going, head, headway, improvement, keep step, lead, make up on, march, move along, move in, onward, precede, priority, proceed, procession, progress, progression, promotion, propulsion, pull ahead, rise, seniority, shape, shoot ahead, speed, stem, step, superiority, take steps, upturn, way, work up to), ‏تسلق (climb, creep, get over, get up, mount, mounting, ramble, scale, scaling, scramble, surmount, swarm, swarm up), ‏عودة إلى الماضي, ‏طلوع (mounting), ‏صعود (ascension, embarkation, rise, surge), ‏صعد (ascend, balloon, climb, embark, escalate, go up, manacle, rise, scale, sublimate, uphill). (various references)

Bulgarian 

стъпала, стръмна пътека, склон (decline, declivity, descent, downhill, drop, flank, hang, hanging, hillside, inclination, incline, pitch, pitching, ramp, side, slant, slope, talus, versant), възход (advance, rise, upbeat), напредък (advance, advancement, betterment, gain, headway, improvement, lift, progress), изкачване (ascension, climb, climbing, hoist, rise), издигане (advance, aggrandizement, ascension, elevation, erection, heave, hoist, levitation, lift, lifting, rise, rising, uptake). (various references)

Chinese 

上升 (Ascendant, Ascendent, Climb, Climbed, Climbing, Raise, Raised, Raising, rise, risen, rising, uphill, uplifted). (various references)

Czech

vzlet (swing, take off, takeoff), výstup (coming-out, upset). (various references)

Danish

opvind (updraft, updraught). (various references)

Dutch

stijgstroom (updraft, updraught), opwaartse stroming (updraft, updraught), beklimming (climbing, mounting). (various references)

Esperanto

surgrimpado (climbing, mounting). (various references)

Farsi 

فرازروی , فراز (Accolade, Altitude, Ascendency, Loft, Phrase), ترقی (Boost, Development, Growth, Increase, Increment, Jump, Lift, Pickup, Procession, Progress, Promotion, Rise), سربالاءی (Accolade, Bent, Rise, Slope, Up, Upgrade, Uphill), عروج , صعود (Ascension, Bulge, Mount, Rise). (various references)

Finnish

nouseva virtaus (updraft, updraught). (various references)

French

ascension (ascendency, ascension, place of ascent). (various references)

German

Besteigung (climbing), Aufstieg (advancement, ascendency, ascension, climb, promotion, rise, way up). (various references)

Greek 

ανάβαση (ascension, climbing, mounting). (various references)

Hebrew 

מעל�" (aloft, lifting, raising, rise, slope, up, upward), עלי�" (assumption, rise, rising, up). (various references)

Hungarian

meredek hegyoldal, megmászás. (various references)

Indonesian

pendakian (climbing, defile, incline), pemanjatan (action of climbing), kenaikan (ascension, preferment, rise, sector). (various references)

Italian

ascensione (advancement, ascendency, ascension, Ascension Day, mounting). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

登り (climbing), 上がり (advance income, after, completion, crop yield, death, ex, finish, freshly-drawn green tea, rise, slope, spinning, stop), 上り坂 (upgrade), 上り (up-train). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

のぼりざか (upgrade), のぼり (banner, climbing, flag, streamer, up-train), あがり (advance income, after, completion, crop yield, death, ex, finish, freshly-drawn green tea, rise, slope, spinning, stop). (various references)

Korean 

승강. (various references)

Manx

ughtagh (bluffness, high-pitched, hill, hillside, ramp, rising ground, shelving), goll seose (ascendant, go up, lead up, mount, mounting, run, veer, veer wind, wester, wester south to west), drappal (ascend, clamber, climb, escalade, mount, scale, trail, trail of plant). (various references)

Pig Latin

ascentay

Portuguese

ascensão (accession, ascension, climb, rise, rising, uprise, upswing), ascendência (ascendence, domination, down, parentage, pedigree, power, provenance), subida (advance, ascension, climb, climbing, heatspot, raise, rise, rising, scramble, soaring, uprise, upswing), rampa (acclivity, agger, bank, gradient, hillside, incline, ramp, rise, runway, slope, talus, uprise), ladeira (acclivity, bank, coast, declension, gradient, hang, hill, hillside, ramp, rise, side, slant, slope, tilt), corrente ascensional (updraft, updraught), corrente ascendente (updraft, updraught). (various references)

Romanian

asentiment (acquiescence, approval, consent, leave), ascensiune (advancement, ascension, climb, climbing), urcuş (slope, up, up grade, uphill, uprise), urcare (accession, ascension, climb, climbing, heave, rise, scrambling, up), deal (down, elevation, eminence, height, Hill, Mount, vineyard). (various references)

Russian 

крутизна (abruptness, precipitousness, slope, steep, steepness), восхождение (ascension, climbing), подъем (acclivity, climb, elevation, heave, heaving, hoist, instep, lift, lifting, raise, reveille, rise, rouse, take off, up, upgrade, uplift, uprise, upsurge, upswing, upturn, verve). (various references)

Scottish

aonadh, uchdach (acclivity, breastplate), bruthach (a brae: *brut-acos, acclivity). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

uzlet (take off), uspon (boom, grade, rise, up, upgrade), penjanje (ascension, climb, climbing, rising). (various references)

Spanish

ascenso (advancement, climb, elevation, jump, preferment, promotion), subida (accession, acclivity, advance, appreciation, clamber, climb, improvement, increase, lifting, raise, rise, rising), cuesta (acclivity, costs, does it cost, Hill, hillside, incline, it costs, rise, slope, upgrade), corriente ascendente (updraft, updraught). (various references)

Swedish

uppfart (approach, driveway), bestigning (climbing). (various references)

Thai

ทางชัน, การย้อนไปในอ�"ีต, การปีน (scramble). (various references)

Turkish

yokuş (acclivity, bank, declination, descent, dip, downgrade, glacis, Hill, incline, pitch, raise, ramp, slope, upgrade), yükselme (advance, advancement, ascension, climb, distinction, escalation, flux, gain, hike, increase, pickup, preferment, progress, promotion, promotional, raise, rise, rising, scaling, step up, swell, swelling, upheaval, uprising, upsurge, upthrust), tırmanma (climb, climbing, clinging, hill climb), rampa (boarding, gantry, gantry scaffold, gauntry, launching pad, launching platform, pad, platform, raise, ramp), bayır (acclivity, Brae, declivity, Foothill, glacis, slope), çıkış (boom, check out, egress, exit, hit, issue, out, outlet, outrun, power output, rising, sortie, start, starting, up, way out). (various references)

Ukrainian

сходження по родовідній лінії, сходження (ascension, climb, climbing), стрімкість (abruptness, impetuosity, precipitance, precipitancy, precipitation), узвіз (tilt), марш сходів, звертання до минулого (retrospect, retrospection), підвишення, підйом (ascension, heave, instep, lift, raise, rouse, up, upgrade, uphill, uplift), піднімання (heave, heaving, levitation, lifting, uptake), просування (ascension, progress, progression, promotion, propulsion, rise, travel). (various references)

Vietnamese 

sự trèo lên (rising), sự đi lên, bậc cầu thang đi lên, đường dốc (gradient, slope, uphill). (various references)

Welsh

rhiw (acclivity, hill), gorifyny (hill, steep climb), esgynfa (rise), dringfa (climb). (various references)

ascensionem, ascensiones, ascensionis, ascensu, ascensum, ascensus. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "ascent": ascents. (additional references)

Words ending with "ascent": nascent, reascent, renascent. (additional references)

Words containing "ascent": reascents. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Ascent" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: abcent, abscent, acant, acent, acsent, acuent, Adscene, Agscene, ancent, anscent, arcant, arcent, Arcnet, ascain, Ascat, ascern, ascert, ascit, Ascon, Ascona, Asenoth, ashent, asken, asketh, Asscn, Azucena, escont, raschetny, sagent, sarcenet. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: centas, enacts, secant, stance.

-1 letter: acnes, antes, canes, canst, cants, caste, cates, cents, cesta, enact, etnas, nates, neats, scant, scena, scent, stane, taces.

-2 letters: aces, acne, acts, anes, ante, ants, ates, cane, cans, cant, case, cast, cate, cats, cent, east, eats, etas, etna, neat, nest, nets, sane, sate, scan, scat, seat, sect, sent, seta, tace, tans, teas.

+1 letter: accents, acetins, ascents, canters, cantles, carnets, catenas, centals, cetanes, chasten, cineast, decants, descant, lancets, nascent, nectars, nutcase, octanes, recants, scanted, scanter, secants, stances, tanrecs, tenaces, trances.

+2 letters: acescent, acetones, aconites, amnestic, analects, ancestor, ancestry, ancients, asthenic, cabinets, canister, canities, canniest, canoeist, canteens, capstone, casement, castanet, caterans, centares, centaurs, centavos, centrals, ceratins, chanters, chanteys, chanties, chastens, cineaste, cineasts, cisterna, cleanest, coagents, coenacts, cognates, cosecant, crankest, creatins, cyanates, cyanites, descants, distance, enactors, enchants, endocast, entastic, estancia, etchants, exsecant, fanciest, insectan, instance, jaconets, lactones, manchets, nautches, newscast, nictates, notecase, nutcases, opencast, pandects, reascent, recusant, reenacts, sarcenet, scandent, scantest, scantier, scanties, secantly, semantic, snatched, snatcher, snatches, sonicate, stanched, stancher, stanches, tacnodes, tacrines, tetanics, tranches, transect, unchaste, uncrates, vesicant, zincates.

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