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Ascend vs Smokejack - What's the difference?

ascend | smokejack |

As a verb ascend

is to move upward, to fly, to soar.

As a noun smokejack is

a device for turning a spit by means of a fly or wheel moved by the current of ascending air in a chimney.

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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    smokejack

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A device for turning a spit by means of a fly or wheel moved by the current of ascending air in a chimney.
  • * 1871 (Thomas Hardy) "Desperate Remedies"
    • Minute recurrent sounds prevailed -- the click of the smoke-jack , the flap of the flames, and the light touches of the women's slippers upon the floor.
    (Webster 1913)

    Alternative forms

    * smoke-jack