Ascending can be categorized as a verb and an adjective.
Adjective |
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| ascending - moving or going or growing upward; "the ascending plane"; "the ascending staircase"; "the ascending stems of chickweed" | ||
Verb |
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| ascend - travel up, "We ascended the mountain"; "go up a ladder"; "The mountaineers slowly ascended the steep slope" | ||
| ascend - slope upwards; "The path ascended to the top of the hill" | ||
| ascend - become king or queen; "She ascended to the throne after the King's death" | ||
| ascend - move to a better position in life or to a better job; "She ascended from a life of poverty to one of great | ||
| ascend - go along towards (a river's) source; "The boat ascended the Delaware" | ||
| ascend - go back in order of genealogical succession; "Inheritance may not ascend linearly" | ||
| ascend - appear to be moving upward, as by means of tendrils; "the vine climbed up the side of the house" | ||
| ascend - come up, of celestial bodies; "The sun also rises"; "The sun uprising sees the dusk night fled..."; "Jupiter ascends" |
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| 1. | adj. | The ascending plane. | |
| 2. | adj. | The ascending staircase. | |
| 3. | adj. | The ascending stems of chickweed. | |
| 4. | verb | A balloon is ascending into the sky. | |
| 5. | verb | Sort the numbers in ascending order. | |
| 6. | verb | In a moment the young fellows had dismounted, fastened their horses, and were ascending the precipitous slope which led up to the object which had excited their curiosity. | |
| 7. | verb | On ascending the knoll near the house, from which all the neighbouring moors were visible, they not only could see no signs of the missing favourite, but they perceived something which warned them that they were in the presence of a tragedy. | |
| 8. | verb | Let us labor for that larger and larger comprehension of truth, that more and more thorough repudiation of error, which shall make the history of mankind a series of ascending developments. | |
| 9. | verb | And he saw in his sleep a ladder standing upon the earth, and the top thereof touching heaven: the angels also of God ascending and descending by it, and the Lord leaning upon the ladder saying to him: I am the Lord God of Abraham thy father, and the God of Isaac: | |
| 10. | verb | "Which of these paths do you prefer?" we asked a donkey stuck between an ascending and a descending trail. "I wish there were a pickax to demolish both of them," he replied. | |
| 11. | verb | Inheritance may not ascend linearly. | |
| 12. | verb | The skyscraper's elevators ascend at an astonishing rate of speed. | |
| 13. | verb | The skyscraper's elevators ascend at an astonishing rate of speed. |
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| adj. | |
| The ascending plane. |
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| The ascending staircase. |
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| The ascending stems of chickweed. |
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| verb | |
| A balloon is ascending into the sky. | |
| Sort the numbers in ascending order. | |
| In a moment the young fellows had dismounted, fastened their horses, and were ascending the precipitous slope which led up to the object which had excited their curiosity. | |
| On ascending the knoll near the house, from which all the neighbouring moors were visible, they not only could see no signs of the missing favourite, but they perceived something which warned them that they were in the presence of a tragedy. | |
| Let us labor for that larger and larger comprehension of truth, that more and more thorough repudiation of error, which shall make the history of mankind a series of ascending developments. | |
| And he saw in his sleep a ladder standing upon the earth, and the top thereof touching heaven: the angels also of God ascending and descending by it, and the Lord leaning upon the ladder saying to him: I am the Lord God of Abraham thy father, and the God of Isaac: | |
| "Which of these paths do you prefer?" we asked a donkey stuck between an ascending and a descending trail. "I wish there were a pickax to demolish both of them," he replied. | |
| Inheritance may not ascend linearly. |
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| The skyscraper's elevators ascend at an astonishing rate of speed. | |
| The skyscraper's elevators ascend at an astonishing rate of speed. | |