Consent vs Ascent - What's the difference?
consent | ascent |
To express willingness, to give permission.
* (rfdate) Shakespeare
(medicine) To cause to sign a consent form.
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(obsolete) To grant; to allow; to assent to.
* (rfdate) Milton
To agree in opinion or sentiment; to be of the same mind; to accord; to concur.
* (rfdate) Bible, Acts viii. 1
* (rfdate) Fuller
Voluntary agreement or permission.
*, II.6:
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/]
As nouns the difference between consent and ascent
is that consent is voluntary agreement or permission while ascent is the act of ascending a motion upwards.As a verb consent
is to express willingness, to give permission.consent
English
(wikipedia consent)Verb
(en verb)- ''I've consented to have the procedure performed.
- My poverty, but not my will, consents .
- Interpreters will not consent it to be a true story.
- And Saul was consenting unto his death.
- Flourishing many years before Wyclif, and much consenting with him in jugdment.
Usage notes
* This is a catenative verb that takes the to infinitive . SeeSynonyms
* (intransitive) acquiesce, agree, approve, assent, concur,Antonyms
* (intransitive) disagree, , opposeDerived terms
* consentingNoun
(en noun)- All men know by experience, there be some parts of our bodies which often without any consent of ours doe stirre, stand, and lye down againe.
Synonyms
* (voluntary agreement) agreement, approval, assent, permission, willingness,Antonyms
* (voluntary agreement) dissent, disagreement, opposition, refusalDerived terms
* consenter * consentaneous * age of consentascent
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.