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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
ascend
verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
ascending/descending order (=with the lowest or highest number first)
▪ The films are ranked in ascending order of profitability.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
heaven
▪ Three pairs of dark legs, high-top sneakers at their bottoms, ascend toward heaven.
▪ In later times, he ascended to heaven to be crowned with stars.
▪ As well as a tree, Hathor was, like Lilith, the ladder on which the righteous could ascend to heaven.
stair
▪ She ascended the stairs and entered her own room first, but there was no one there.
▪ Finally I leave, and even more slowly ascend the remaining stairs.
▪ Footsteps are heard ascending the stairs to platform I passing clean through the locked barrier gates and proceeding along the platform.
▪ Without a word, the woman began to ascend the stairs.
▪ Then I ascended the narrow stairs to his doorway.
▪ It had begun to ascend the stairs ... and then the weariness had overcome it.
throne
▪ The original sovereign continued to be struck until 1603, when James I ascended the throne, but was revived in 1817.
▪ Start there, with Caliban ascending the throne.
▪ For a number of years after he ascended the throne he remained highly deferential to gentry concerns.
▪ Primarily, however, her antics seem playful, befitting a king who ascended the throne at age 10.
▪ He acquired it partly by accident, for war was near when he ascended the throne.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ A huge flock of red-wing blackbirds ascended from their nests along the side of the road.
▪ Bianca walked regally across the hall and ascended the marble staircase.
▪ He leaned out of an upstairs window and felt a current of warm air ascending from the street.
▪ He was turning to ascend the ladder to the engine room when the ship's fire alarm sounded.
▪ Ms. Goodman ascended a 10-foot aluminum ladder to the roof.
▪ Several ski lifts ascended the mountain.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Continue ascending two more forms and then play the whole thing descending.
▪ From this pseudo-grandeur, a curving stairway ascends to eight capacious galleries.
▪ It took about twenty minutes to ascend the 212 steps, but it was worth the effort.
▪ Paul was first to ascend, and the boards shook under him as he gave Junior a hand up.
▪ Primarily, however, her antics seem playful, befitting a king who ascended the throne at age 10.
▪ She looked up as Eva ascended into the rafters.
▪ We also identified the product of the team of teams as we ascended from the micro to the macro level.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Ascend

Ascend \As*cend"\, v. t. To go or move upward upon or along; to climb; to mount; to go up the top of; as, to ascend a hill, a ladder, a tree, a river, a throne.

Ascend

Ascend \As*cend"\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Ascended; p. pr. & vb. n. Ascending.] [L. ascendere; ad + scandere to climb, mount. See Scan.]

  1. To move upward; to mount; to go up; to rise; -- opposed to descend.

    Higher yet that star ascends.
    --Bowring.

    I ascend unto my father and your father.
    --John xx. 17.

    Note: Formerly used with up.

    The smoke of it ascended up to heaven.
    --Addison.

  2. To rise, in a figurative sense; to proceed from an inferior to a superior degree, from mean to noble objects, from particulars to generals, from modern to ancient times, from one note to another more acute, etc.; as, our inquiries ascend to the remotest antiquity; to ascend to our first progenitor.

    Syn: To rise; mount; climb; scale; soar; tower.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
ascend

late 14c., from Latin ascendere "to climb up, mount, ascend," figuratively "to rise, reach," from ad- "to" (see ad-) + scandere "to climb" (see scan (v.)). Also in 15c. used with a sense "to mount (a female) for copulation." Related: Ascended; ascending. An Old English word for it was stigan.

Wiktionary
ascend

vb. 1 (context intransitive English) To move upward, to fly, to soar. 2 (context intransitive English) To slope in an upward direction. 3 (context transitive English) To go up. 4 (context transitive English) To succeed. 5 (context figurative English) To rise; to become higher, more noble, etc.

WordNet
ascend
  1. v. travel up, "We ascended the mountain"; "go up a ladder"; "The mountaineers slowly ascended the steep slope" [syn: go up] [ant: descend]

  2. go back in order of genealogical succession; "Inheritance may not ascend linearly"

  3. become king or queen; "She ascended to the throne after the King's death"

  4. go along towards (a river's) source; "The boat ascended the Delaware"

  5. slope upwards; "The path ascended to the top of the hill"

  6. come up, of celestial bodies; "The sun also rises"; "The sun uprising sees the dusk night fled..."; "Jupiter ascends" [syn: rise, come up, uprise] [ant: set]

Wikipedia
Ascend (band)

Ascend is an American experimental doom metal collaboration between singer/guitarist Gentry Densley (guitar/vocals) and Greg Anderson (bass/guitar). Their album Ample Fire Within (2008) was released by Southern Lord Records and featured a guest appearance by Soundgarden guitarist Kim Thayil. Critic Neg Ragget described the album as "a Southern Lord label lovefeast par excellence [...] a masterpiece of carefully focused sludge."[]

Category:Southern Lord Records artists

Ascend (Nine Lashes album)

Ascend is the fourth studio album from Nine Lashes. BEC Recordings are releasing the album on March 11, 2016.

ASCEND

ASCEND is a free, open source, mathematical modelling system developed at Carnegie Mellon University since late 1978. ASCEND is an acronym which stands for Advanced System for Computations in Engineering Design. Its main uses have been in the field of chemical process modelling although its capabilities are general. It was a pioneering piece of software in the chemical process modelling field, with its novel modelling language conventions and powerful solver, although it has never been commercialized and remains as an open source software project.

ASCEND includes nonlinear algebraic solvers, differential/algebraic equation solvers, nonlinear optimization and modelling of multi-region 'conditional models'. Its matrix operations are supported by an efficient sparse matrix solver called mtx.

ASCEND differs from earlier modelling systems because it separates the solving strategy from model building. So domain experts (people writing the models) and computational engineers (people writing the solver code) can work separately in developing ASCEND. Together with a number of other early modelling tools, its architecture helped to inspire newer languages such as Modelica. It was recognised for its flexible use of variables and parameters, which it always treats as solvable, if desired

The software remains as an active open-source software project, and has been part of the Google Summer of Code programme in 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013 (under Python Software Foundation) and has been accepted for the 2015 programme as well.

Ascend (album)

Ascend is the sixth studio album by guitarist Greg Howe, released on May 4, 1999 through Shrapnel Records. According to Howe, this is his least favourite album due in part to creative differences which arose with keyboardist Vitalij Kuprij during the making of the latter's 1997 album High Definition. In the liner notes, Howe explains his decision to revisit the neoclassical style of his earlier work, however clarifying that "by no means is this a reflection of where I'm headed with my music in the future." The fifth track, " La Villa Strangiato", is a cover of an instrumental by progressive rock band Rush, from their 1978 album Hemispheres.

Usage examples of "ascend".

Ascending current of Eros, the moral freedom Kant offered was absolutely exhilarating to the entire era.

Romulus, more than a thousand years before, had ascended the Capitoline Mount on foot, bearing in his arms the spoil of Acron, and his example had been followed by a long line of Roman heroes.

They are like the colossal strides of approaching Fate, and this awfulness is twice raised to a higher power, first by a searching, syncopated phrase in the violins which hovers loweringly over them, and next by a succession of afrighted minor scales ascending crescendo and descending piano, the change in dynamics beginning abruptly as the crest of each terrifying wave is reached.

On long international flights, as heavy fuel slowly burns off, pilots will ascend to a higher cruise altitude every two or three hours.

I may mention that our aneroid shows us that in the continual incline which we have ascended since we abandoned our canoes we have risen to no less than three thousand feet above sea-level.

During the present year, however, in the month of July, I came across a community with an unusually large stock of slaves, and I observed a few slaves mingled with their masters leaving the nest, and marching along the same road to a tall Scotch-fir-tree, twenty-five yards distant, which they ascended together, probably in search of aphides or cocci.

They ascended the bank of a river, and Arabin was overpowered with the change--the morning was indeed lovely.

If any other individual fully Ascended, it would destroy the meaning and integration of society on the wholepolitically, morally, and religiously.

For Plotinus the Descended world of physics and the Ascended world of the Soul were both integral components of the One World.

Alexander ascended his tribunal, and with a modest firmness represented to the armed multitude the absolute necessity, as well as his inflexible resolution, of correcting the vices introduced by his impure predecessor, and of maintaining the discipline, which could not be relaxed without the ruin of the Roman name and empire.

After the senate had conferred on Maximus and Balbinus an equal portion of the consular and tribunitian powers, the title of Fathers of their country, and the joint office of Supreme Pontiff, they ascended to the Capitol to return thanks to the gods, protectors of Rome.

The Goths soon discovered the supine negligence of the besieged, erected a lofty pile of fascines, ascended the walls in the silence of the night, and entered the defenceless city sword in hand.

When Claudius ascended the throne, he was about fifty-four years of age.

The general design of this work will not permit us minutely to relate the actions of every emperor after he ascended the throne, much less to deduce the various fortunes of his private life.

Princes who, without success, had defended their throne or freedom, were frequently strangled in prison, as soon as the triumphal pomp ascended the Capitol.