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ascent::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | ascension, rise, rising |
| Type of | change of location, travel |
| Has types | climbing, elevation, heave, upthrust, heaving, upthrow, uplifting, lift, liftoff, climb, uplift, mounting, zoom, takeoff, upheaval, raising, rapid climb, rapid growth |
| Derivation | ascend |
Examples of ascent
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Since 2003, the stock has been on a rapid ascent, especially over the past year.
From the online.wsj.com
Finland's mainstream politicians have acknowledged the ascent of the True Finns.
From the economist.com
Like IBM in the 1940s and Microsoft in the 1980s, Google is still on the ascent.
From the theatlantic.com
Surely they could handicap the likelihood of Heidi's ascent into animal stardom?
From the latimes.com
It's been a tough few days and tomorrow brings another ascent to Brinkley Bluff.
From the independent.co.uk
The asuras were on the ascent, and they had become a threat to cosmic stability.
From the en.wikipedia.org
And do we need another elementary school recital of man's ascent from the caves?
From the en.wikipedia.org
Quite a steep ascent now on this slippery, sometimes poorly surfaced muddy road.
From the gazetteherald.co.uk
The hailstone gains an ice layer and grows increasingly larger with each ascent.
From the en.wikipedia.org
- An upward slope or grade (as in a road); "the car couldn't make it up the rise"
- Rise: a movement upward; "they cheered the rise of the hot-air balloon"
- Rise: the act of changing location in an upward direction
- The following is a list of episodes from the USA Network original series The Dead Zone. The series debuted on June 16, 2002.
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- Ascent is an American literary magazine that publishes stories, poems, essays and reviews, many of which are later reprinted in annual anthologies. The journal is based at Concordia College in Moorhead, Minnesota.
- Ascent is an independent, not-for-profit magazine published quarterly that explores the intersection of spiritual values with social and political issues, art, culture and contemporary thought. Ascent also publishes a website, a blog, books, and holds an annual retreat at Yasodhara Ashram. ...
- Ascent is a novel published in 2007, written by Jed Mercurio. It follows the career of Yevgeni Yeremin, an orphan of Stalingrad, from his days as a MiG-15 pilot in the Korean War, where he becomes a leading ace. However, at the end of the war he crashes in a plane bearing USSR insignia. ...
- The Ascent (Russian: u0412u043Eu0441u0445u043Eu0436u0434u0435u043Du0438u0435, tr. Voskhozhdeniye) is a 1977 black-and-white Soviet drama film directed by Larisa Shepitko and made at Mosfilm. The movie was shot in January 1974 near Murom, Vladimir Oblast, Russia, in appalling winter conditions, as required by the script, based on the novel Sotnikov by Vasil Bykau016D. It was Shepitko's last film before her death in a car accident in 1979...
