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Ascend vs Upsend - What's the difference?

ascend | upsend |

In transitive terms the difference between ascend and upsend

is that ascend is to succeed while upsend is to send, cast, or throw up; deliver; submit.

As verbs the difference between ascend and upsend

is that ascend is to move upward, to fly, to soar while upsend is to send, cast, or throw up; deliver; submit.

As a noun upsend is

that which is upsent, or sent up; a deliverable.

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

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    upsend

    English

    Verb

  • To send, cast, or throw up; deliver; submit.
  • *1808 , John Fitchett, Alfred, a poem :
  • And now upsend afar a deaf'ning shout [...]
  • *1873 , Aeschylus, The Dramas of Aeschylus :
  • Hermes and Earth and Thou, Monarch of Hades, do ye now His spirit to the light upsend ; [...]
  • *1981 , Doris May Lessing, Briefing for a Descent Into Hell :
  • Down and down, but the corky sea upsends me to the light again, and there under my hand is rock, a port in the storm, a little peaking black rock that no main mariner has struck before me, nor map ever charted, just a single black basalt rock, [...]
  • *2003 , Marc Silva, The Short, Mad Reign of Humanity :
  • When LaBarca and I finally made it to the cove North of Vera Cruz, I split the group upsending LaBarca, DaCosta and the rest on to the Western hideout while young Cerrano, whose father was killed in the war with the extraterrestrials, [...]
  • (intransitive, US, Scotland) To ascend; climb up.
  • *1919 , Harry Lyman Koopman, Hesperia: an American national poem :
  • But when the sun of the fifth day had risen, The Keepers of the Faith, upon a pyre Built near the council-house, with solemn rites Burnt the White Dog, upsending with the smoke The message of their loyalty and thanks.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • That which is upsent, or sent up; a deliverable.
  • *1982 , American Bankers Association, ABA banking journal :
  • The Trans-Vista 2000 offers Mosler options like upsend capability, automatic carrier return and fast, accurate customer identification.
  • *2008 , Independent Bankers Association of America, Independent banker :
  • For example, with a variety of upsend and downsend customer units, and upsend and downsend teller units, we can mix-and-match standard components to create the custom configuration designed to best meet your unique operational [...]

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