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1ascend — [[t]əse̱nd[/t]] ascends, ascending, ascended 1) VERB If you ascend a hill or staircase, you go up it. [WRITTEN] [V n] Mrs Clayton had to hold Lizzie s hand as they ascended the steps... [V prep/adv] Then we ascend steeply through forests of… …
2climb — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. mount, scale, ascend, rise, go up; succeed; clamber, scramble, shin[ny]. See ascent, descent. II (Roget s IV) n. 1. [The act of climbing] Syn. climbing, clamber, mounting, ascent; see rise 1 . 2. [An… …
3South Asian arts — Literary, performing, and visual arts of India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka. Myths of the popular gods, Vishnu and Shiva, in the Puranas (ancient tales) and the Mahabharata and Ramayana epics, supply material for representational and… …
4climb — I. v. a. Struggle up, go up, mount, surmount, ascend. II. v. n. 1. Clamber, scramble, ascend gradually, come slowly up. 2. Creep, twine, clamber. (Said of plants.) …
5Trailokya — (Skt., also triloka or trilokya ; Pali: tiloka ; Tibetan: khams gsum (Wylie)) has been translated as three worlds, [Monier Williams (1899), p. 460, col. 1, entry for [Tri ] loka (retrieved at http://www.sanskrit lexicon.uni… …
6climb — [klīm] vi., vt. climbed, climbing [ME climben < OE climban < IE * glembh (> CLAMBER, CLUMP) < base * gel , to make round, clench, as the fist: basic sense, “to cling to, grip”] 1. to go up by using the feet and, often, the hands 2. to …
7PHILOSOPHY, JEWISH — This article is arranged according to the following outline: WHAT IS JEWISH PHILOSOPHY? recent histories of jewish philosophy biblical and rabbinic antecedents bible rabbinic literature hellenistic jewish philosophy philo of alexandria biblical… …
8Djebel Ressas — Jebel Ressas Djebel Ressas in cloud cover, as viewed from the northwest Elevation …
9Buddhism — Buddhist, n., adj. Buddhistic, Buddhistical, adj. Buddhistically, adv. /booh diz euhm, bood iz /, n. a religion, originated in India by Buddha (Gautama) and later spreading to China, Burma, Japan, Tibet, and parts of southeast Asia, holding that… …
10nervous system, human — ▪ anatomy Introduction system that conducts stimuli from sensory receptors to the brain and spinal cord and that conducts impulses back to other parts of the body. As with other higher vertebrates, the human nervous system has two main… …
