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Ascending   /əsˈɛndɪŋ/   Listen
Ascending

adjective
1.
Moving or going or growing upward.  "The ascending staircase" , "The ascending stems of chickweed"
noun
1.
The act of changing location in an upward direction.  Synonyms: ascension, ascent, rise.


Ascend

verb
(past & past part. ascended; pres. part. ascending)
1.
Travel up,.  Synonym: go up.  "Go up a ladder" , "The mountaineers slowly ascended the steep slope"
2.
Go back in order of genealogical succession.
3.
Become king or queen.
4.
Appear to be moving upward, as by means of tendrils.  Synonym: climb up.
5.
Go along towards (a river's) source.
6.
Slope upwards.
7.
Come up, of celestial bodies.  Synonyms: come up, rise, uprise.  "The sun uprising sees the dusk night fled..." , "Jupiter ascends"
8.
Move to a better position in life or to a better job.  Synonyms: move up, rise.



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"Ascending" Quotes from Famous Books



... difficulties and anxieties of our own, but as we passed that graveyard of the sea we thought of the many tragedies written in the wave-worn fragments of lost vessels. We did not pause, and soon we were ascending a snow-slope heading due east on the last ...
— South! • Sir Ernest Shackleton
... other shop in the bazaar to ask whether he can get a similar article better and cheaper. Such a convenience as fixed prices, alike for all, does not exist in the Persian bazaar, and prices are generally on the ascending or descending scale, according to the merchant's estimate of his customer's wealth. It is looked upon as a right and a duty to extort from a rich man the maximum of profit, whereas from a poor fellow a few ...
— Across Coveted Lands - or a Journey from Flushing (Holland) to Calcutta Overland • Arnold Henry Savage Landor
... creatures continually returning, of whom it may be said, Live and die. This is the third place. Therefore that world never becomes full.' As this passage states that in consequence of 'the third place' (i.e. the creatures forming a third class) not ascending to and descending from the heavenly world that world never becomes full, it follows that that third place does not, for the origination of bodies, depend on the fifth oblation. The clause, 'in the fifth oblation,' moreover, merely states that the connexion of water with the fifth fire ...
— The Vedanta-Sutras with the Commentary by Ramanuja - Sacred Books of the East, Volume 48 • Trans. George Thibaut
... made sure that the strong shutters were secured; then up to Basterga's room and to Grio's, and as far as her strength went she piled the furniture against the iron-barred casements that looked on to the ramparts. While she worked her ears listened for the alarm, but, until she had finished and was ascending with the light to her mother's room she heard nothing. Then a distant cry, a faint challenge, the drum-drum of running feet, a second cry—and silence. It might be his death-cry she had heard; ...
— The Long Night • Stanley Weyman
... mean; It requireth courage stout, Souls above doubt, Valour unbending: Such 'twill reward;— They shall return More than they were, And ever ascending. ...
— Book of English Verse • Bulchevy


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