Ascend
1ascend — 1 *rise, arise, mount, soar, tower, rocket, levitate, surge Analogous words: elevate, raise, rear, *lift: *advance, progress Antonyms: descend 2 Ascend, mount, climb, scale mean to move upward to or toward a summit. Ascend is the most colorless… …
2Ascend — means to go up, fly, or soar.Ascend (ascendant, ascendance, ascendancy/ascendency, ascended, ascender, ascending, ascent, ascension, etc) may also refer to:Anatomy/Medicine * Ascending aorta * Ascending cervical artery * Ascending colon *… …
3Ascend — As*cend , v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Ascended}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Ascending}.] [L. ascendere; ad + scandere to climb, mount. See {Scan}.] 1. To move upward; to mount; to go up; to rise; opposed to {descend}. [1913 Webster] Higher yet that star ascends.… …
4ascend — [ə send′] vi. [ME ascenden < OFr ascendre < L ascendere < ad , to + scandere, to climb] 1. to go up; move upward; rise 2. to proceed from a lower to a higher level or degree, as in rank, pitch, etc. 3. to slope or lead upward 4. to go… …
5Ascend — As*cend , v. t. 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. [1913 Webster] …
6ascend — (v.) late 14c., from L. ascendere to climb up, mount, ascend, figuratively to rise, reach, from ad to (see AD (Cf. ad )) + scandere to climb (see SCAN (Cf. scan) (v.)). Also in 15c. used with a sense to mount (a female) for copulation. Related:… …
7ascend — index expand, progress Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …
8ascend — [v] go up arise, climb, escalate, float, fly, lift off, mount, move up, rise, scale, soar, sprout, take off, tower; concepts 149,166 Ant. decline, descend, go down, lower …
9ascend — ► VERB 1) go up; climb or rise. 2) rise in status. 3) (of a voice or sound) rise in pitch. ORIGIN Latin ascendere …
10ASCEND — Infobox Software name = ASCEND caption = developer = the ASCEND team latest release version = 0.9.5.114 latest release date = Feb 27, 2008 operating system = Linux, Windows (and partial support for Mac OSX) programming language = C, Python,… …
