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Ascent vs Increasing - What's the difference?

ascent | increasing |

As nouns the difference between ascent and increasing

is that ascent is the act of ascending a motion upwards while increasing is (knitting) an increase.

As a verb increasing is

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ascent

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • The act of ascending. A motion upwards.
    • He made a tedious ascent of Mont Blanc.
  • The way or means by which one ascends.
    • There is a difficult northern ascent from Malaucene of Mont Ventoux.
  • 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.
    • The road has an ascent of 5 degrees.
  • (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/]
    • 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.
    (Webster 1913)

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    increasing

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • * , chapter=5
    • , title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=Here, in the transept and choir, where the service was being held, one was conscious every moment of an increasing brightness; colours glowing vividly beneath the circular chandeliers, and the rows of small lights on the choristers' desks flashed and sparkled in front of the boys' faces, deep linen collars, and red neckbands.}}
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-07, author=(Joseph Stiglitz)
    • , volume=188, issue=26, page=19, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Globalisation is about taxes too , passage=It is time the international community faced the reality: we have an unmanageable, unfair, distortionary global tax regime. It is a tax system that is pivotal in creating the increasing inequality that marks most advanced countries today […].}}

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (knitting) An increase.
  • * 1864 , The Ladies' Companion and Monthly Magazine (page 277)
    • Now begin the increasings for the chest by making 2 stitches in the fourth stitch; repeat this, increasing in every fourth row, but 1 stitch further each time, so as to form a slanting line, the same as a dress-pleat.