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ascent
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ascent
n.
climbing; rising up; upward slope
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Ascent
Ascent or The Ascent may refer to:
Publications
- Ascent (magazine), an independent, not-for-profit magazine
- Ascent (journal), a literary journal based at Concordia College
- Ascent (novel), by Jed Mercurio
- Times Ascent, a weekly supplement of The Times of India newspaper
- Ascent of Mount Carmel, a 16th-century Catholic spiritual treatise
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ascent
Noun
1. an upward slope or grade (as in a road); "the car couldn't make it up the rise"
(synonym) acclivity, rise, raise, climb, upgrade
(antonym) descent, declivity, fall, decline, declination, declension, downslope
(hypernym) slope, incline, side
(hyponym) uphill
(derivation) ascend
2. a movement upward; "they cheered the rise of the hot-air balloon"
(synonym) rise, rising, ascension
(hypernym) change of location, travel
(hyponym) climb, climbing, mounting
(derivation) ascend, go up
3. the act of changing location in an upward direction
(synonym) rise, ascension, ascending
(hypernym) motion, movement, move
(hyponym) levitation
(derivation) ascend, go up
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ascent
n.
výstup; cesta vzhůru/nahoru
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ascent
Rzecz.
wspinaczka; wzniesienie
