ascent
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4.2
- noun
- /əˈsɛnt/
:
pendiente
- I fumed as the Range Rover continued its precarious ascent.
- ascent and descent
He saw at once a famous landscape, the old brown, barren ascent with Tufts of dried out bone, like weeds poking slantedly into a dim and sunless sky.
- He saw at once a famous landscape, the old brown, barren ascent with Tufts of dried out bone, like weeds poking slantedly into a dim and sunless sky.
- So this of course is a mile ascent up this like freaking freeway in San Diego.
Examples
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Then we began our ascent of the mountains.
Fiction book (1993) -
Doing the loop counterclockwise makes the ascent from the crater floor much easier.
Blog text (10) -
And so we started planning on the final stage - the ascent of the mountain, to the sky.
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We'll camp here for the night and make our ascent in the morning.
Academic text (2007) -
We must abandon our ascent and proceed down the mountain immediately.
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Near the end of the ascent, the grade increased to nearly forty-five degrees.
Fiction book (1999) -
The final ascent to the top began at the Lion Staircase.
Academic text (2002) -
Tourists with respiratory ailments are cautioned against making such an ascent, even by car.
Blog text (19) -
I swerved too late to avoid a muddy puddle, then began the ascent to the rec center parking lot.
Fiction book (1993) -
We camped at the base of the trail before beginning our ascent to the mountain peak in the morning.
Synonyms
163
1.6
A sloping surface that connects two levels for people or vehicles
125
2.4
A small upward slope in land or a surface
69
3.2
How much a line or surface tilts from flat ground
45
1.4
A part of a road or path that goes up
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4.2
A sloping surface that connects different levels
An upward slope on a road or hill
Antonyms
How Steep
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Ascent comes from the Latin parts ad- 'to' and scandere 'to climb', the same root you see in ascend. So an ascent on a road or path is simply the part where you go up a hill or slope.