Ascent vs Ascend - What's the difference?
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The act of ascending. A motion upwards.
The way or means by which one ascends.
An eminence, hill, or high place.
The degree of elevation of an object, or the angle it makes with a horizontal line; inclination; rising grade.
(typography) The ascender height in a typeface.
An increase, for example in popularity or hierarchy
* 22 March 2012 , Scott Tobias, AV Club The Hunger Games [http://www.avclub.com/articles/the-hunger-games,71293/]
To move upward, to fly, to soar.
To slope in an upward direction.
To go up.
To succeed.
(figurative) To rise; to become higher, more noble, etc.
Ascend is a related term of ascent.
As a noun ascent
is the act of ascending. A motion upwards.As a verb ascend is
to move upward, to fly, to soar.ascent
English
Noun
(en noun)- He made a tedious ascent of Mont Blanc.
- There is a difficult northern ascent from Malaucene of Mont Ventoux.
- The road has an ascent of 5 degrees.
- That such a safe adaptation could come of The Hunger Games speaks more to the trilogy’s commercial ascent than the book’s actual content, which is audacious and savvy in its dark calculations.
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(wikipedia ascend)Verb
(en verb)- He ascended to heaven upon a cloud.
- The road ascends the mountain.
- You ascend the stairs and take a right.
- She ascended the throne when her mother abdicated.
- Our inquiries ascend to the remotest antiquity.