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ascent
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| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | upward movement |
| Synonyms: | ascendance, ascending, ascension, clambering, climb, climbing, lift, mounting, rise, rising, scaling, spring, take off |
| Antonyms: | decline, descent, lowering |
| Main Entry: | ascent |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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| Concept: | [Motion upwards] Ascent. |
| Category: | 4. Motion with reference to direction |
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-nouns
ascent, ascension; rising; acclivity, hill; flight of steps, flight of stairs; ladder., rocket, lark; sky rocket, sky lark; Alpine Club.
-verbs
ascend, rise, mount, arise, uprise; go up, get up, work one's way up, start up; shoot up, go into orbit; aspire., climb, clamber, ramp, scramble, escalade, surmount; scale, scale the heights., go aloft, fly aloft; tower, soar, take off, spring up; hover, spire, plane, swim, float, surge; leap.
-adjectives
rising scandent, buoyant; supernatant, superfluitant; excelsior.
-adverbs
uphill.
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| Antonyms: | descent |
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| Main Entry: | ascension |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | going up |
| Synonyms: | ascent, climbing, escalating, flying, mounting, rise, rising, scaling, soaring, towering |
| Notes: | ascension is 'rising'; accension is 'kindling' or 'being kindled' |
| Antonyms: | declension, decline, descendancy |
| Main Entry: | elevation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | height; high ground |
| Synonyms: | acclivity, altitude, ascent, boost, eminence, heave, hill, hillock, hoist, levitation, mountain, platform, ridge, rise, roof, top, uplift, upthrow |
| Antonyms: | depression, lowness |
| Main Entry: | grade |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | incline, slope |
| Synonyms: | acclivity, ascent, bank, cant, climb, declivity, descent, downgrade, elevation, embankment, gradient, height, hill, inclination, inclined plane, lean, leaning, level, obliquity, pitch, plane, ramp, rise, slant, tangent, tilt, upgrade |
| Main Entry: | hill |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | uprising of earth's surface; pile |
| Synonyms: | acclivity, ascent, bluff, butte, cliff, climb, down, drift, dune, elevation, eminence, esker, fell, gradient, headland, heap, height, highland, hillock, hillside, hilltop, hummock, inclination, incline, knoll, mesa, mound, mount, precipice, prominence, promontory, protuberance, range, ridge, rise, rising ground, shock, slope, stack, summit, talus, tor, upland |
| Antonyms: | canyon, ditch, gulley |
| Main Entry: | hillock |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | small hill |
| Synonyms: | acclivity, ascent, bluff, butte, cliff, drift, dune, elevation, esker, headland, heap, highland, hilltop, hummock, inclination, incline, knoll, mesa, mound, mount, precipice, prominence, promontory, ridge, rise, slope, summit |
| Main Entry: | incline |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | slope |
| Synonyms: | acclivity, approach, ascent, cant, declivity, descent, dip, grade, gradient, inclination, lean, leaning, plane, ramp, rise, slant, tilt |
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