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Ascend vs Autoblock - What's the difference?

ascend | autoblock |

As a verb ascend

is to move upward, to fly, to soar.

As a noun autoblock is

an autoblock.

ascend

English

(wikipedia ascend)

Verb

(en verb)
  • To move upward, to fly, to soar.
    • He ascended to heaven upon a cloud.
  • To slope in an upward direction.
    • The road ascends the mountain.
  • To go up.
    • You ascend the stairs and take a right.
  • To succeed.
    • She ascended the throne when her mother abdicated.
  • (figurative) To rise; to become higher, more noble, etc.
    • Our inquiries ascend to the remotest antiquity.

    Antonyms

    * descend

    Related terms

    * ascent * ascendant * ascendance * ascendancy/ascendency * ascending * ascender * ascension * descend * transcend

    External links

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    Anagrams

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    autoblock

    English

    Alternative forms

    * auto-block

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • (climbing) A technique used in rappelling and ascending, with a friction hitch around the climbing rope.
  • (computing) (An) automatic blocking (inhibition of a feature etc.).
  • * 2004 , TechRepublic, IT security survival guide
    • From the online vendor documentation, we determined that this version of the WatchGuard Firebox enabled an autoblock feature by default.

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (climbing) To use the autoblock technique.
  • (computing) To automatically block.