Ascent
[ə'sent] or [ə'sɛnt]
Definition
(noun.) an upward slope or grade (as in a road); 'the car couldn't make it up the rise'.
Checker: Velma--From WordNet
Definition
(-) The act of rising; motion upward; rise; a mounting upward; as, he made a tedious ascent; the ascent of vapors from the earth.
(-) The way or means by which one ascends.
(-) 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; as, a road has an ascent of five degrees.
Checker: Roderick
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Rising, rise, ascension.[2]. Acclivity, rising ground.[3]. Elevation, height, eminence.
Typist: Thaddeus
Examples
- I had no more presaged such feats than I had looked forward to an ascent in a balloon, or a voyage to Cape Horn. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- About half the party were anxious to try the ascent again, and concluded to do so. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- We left the mules, sharpened our finger-nails, and began the ascent I have been writing about so long, at twenty minutes to six in the morning. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- In the latter case a difference of three inches in the column of mercury was shown at the summit and base of the ascent. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Some believe that Count Zeppelin, an officer of the German army has solved the great problem, especially since the ascent of his ship made on July 2, 1900, at Lake Constance. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Mr. Rosedale was still at a stage in his social ascent when it was of importance to produce such impressions. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- She sat quiet, her lips parted by the stress of the ascent, her eyes wandering peacefully over the broken ranges of the landscape. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- Prosperity is denominated ascent, and adversity descent. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- There was no accumulation of fallen debris, forming a more or less rough ascent to them, as is the case with nearly all other cliffs I have ever seen. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- The ascent is precipitous, but the path is cut into continual and short windings, which enable you to surmount the perpendicularity of the mountain. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- It is the natural hill, with its mossy breaks and hollows, whose slope invites ascent, whose summit it is pleasure to gain. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- What was our surprise, not long after we had gone into bivouac, to see the lost mule, cargo and owner coming up the ascent. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- According to the British Admiralty regulations, should a diver go down to a depth of 204 feet, the time of his ascent must be not less than one hour and a half. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- A long, gradual ascent is better than a shorter, steeper one. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- It was nearly noon when I arrived at the top of the ascent. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- The scene before the reddleman's eyes was a gradual series of ascents from the level of the road backward into the heart of the heath. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
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