Incline vs Ascent - What's the difference?
incline | ascent |
(lb) To bend or move (something) out of a given plane or direction, often the horizontal or vertical.
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(lb) To slope.
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To tend to do or believe something, or move or be moved in a certain direction, away from a point of view, attitude, etc.
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*:"My tastes," he said, still smiling, "incline me to the garishly sunlit side of this planet." And, to tease her and arouse her to combat: "I prefer a farandole to a nocturne; I'd rather have a painting than an etching; Mr. Whistler bores me with his monochromatic mud; I don't like dull colours, dull sounds, dull intellects;."
*(rfdate), J. M. G. van der Poel, "Agriculture in Pre- and Protohistoric Times", in the Acta Historiae Neerlandica published by the Netherlands Committee of Historical Sciences, p.170:
*:The terp farmer made use of the plough, as is shown by the discovery of three ploughshares and four coulters..
*Usage note: In this sense incline is usually used in the passive voice, and usually intransitively.
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 incline and ascent
is that incline is a slope while ascent is the act of ascending. A motion upwards.As a verb incline
is to bend or move (something) out of a given plane or direction, often the horizontal or vertical.incline
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(wikipedia incline)Alternative forms
* encline (obsolete)Verb
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* * * English heteronyms ----ascent
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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.
