Transcends vs Ascends - What's the difference?
transcends | ascends |
(transcend)
to pass beyond the limits of something.
* Francis Bacon
to surpass, as in intensity or power; to excel.
* Dryden
(obsolete) To climb; to mount.
(ascend)
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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.
As verbs the difference between transcends and ascends
is that transcends is (transcend) while ascends is (ascend).transcends
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Verb
(head)transcend
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Verb
(en verb)- such popes as shall transcend their limits
- How much her worth transcended all her kind.
- lights in the heavens transcending the region of the clouds
- (Howell)
Derived terms
* transcendence * transcendency * transcendent * transcendental * transcendentalism * transcendentalist * transcendentally * transcendingExternal links
* *ascends
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Verb
(head)ascend
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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.
