Crossword clues for descender
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Descender \De*scend"er\, n. One who descends.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
in typography, "part of a letter that extends below the body," 1802, agent noun from descend.
Wiktionary
n. 1 A person or thing that descends. 2 (context typography English) The part of a lowercase letter that is drawn below the bottom of lowercase letters, such as the ''tail'' of the letters g, p, and q. 3 (context cycling English) A cyclist who excels at fast descents. 4 A belay device used in rock climbing
WordNet
n. someone who descends
a lowercase letter that has a part extending below other lowercase letters
(printing) the part of lowercase letters that extends below the other lowercase letters
Wikipedia
In typography, a descender is the portion of a letter that extends below the baseline of a font. The line that descenders reach down to is known as the beard line.
For example, in the letter y, the descender is the "tail", or that portion of the diagonal line which lies below the v created by the two lines converging. In the letter p, it is the stem reaching down past the o.
In most fonts, descenders are reserved for lowercase characters such as g, j, q, p, y, and sometimes f. Some fonts, however, also use descenders for some numerals (typically 3, 4, 5, 7, and 9). Such numerals are called old-style numerals. (Some italic fonts, such as Computer Modern italic, put a descender on the numeral 4 but not on any other numerals. Such fonts are not considered old-style.) Some fonts also use descenders for the tails on a few uppercase letters such as J and Q.
The parts of characters that extend above the x-height of a font are called ascenders.
Descender is the debut solo album by American singer/songwriter Andrew Wyatt of the indie dance trio Miike Snow. In a departure from his work with his main project and work as a producer, Wyatt recorded the album in Prague backed by a 75-piece orchestra, with guest appearances by The Libertines' Anthony Rossomando, Interpol's former touring bassist Brad Truax, and Tortoise's John Herndon.
Usage examples of "descender".
Descenders and the Ascenders, and, most lamentably, passes over those systemssuch as that of Plotinusthat perfectly integrate the two.
Descenders accuse the Ascenders of being repressive, puritanical, life-denying, sex-denying, earth-destroying, and body-ignoring.
The two could no longer be united, and historically the Ascenders and the Descenders went virtually their separate ways.
The pessimistic Ascenders dourly pursued an otherworldly Goal they were assured of never reaching, and the optimistic Descenders giddily embraced a this-worldly creation whose Source they celebrated but never experienced.
Suddenly, very suddenly, the Ascenders were out, the Descenders were inand the transition was bloody, arguably the bloodiest cognitive transformation in European history.
Although these approaches utterly lack any depth, they make up for that in a type of fearless shallowness, the same fearless shallowness that marks the exuberance of Descenders everywhere, that confers great confidence on their reductive pronouncements and makes happy the hand of Thanatos that they so freely wave.
Descenders accuse the Ascenders of being repressive, puritanical, life-denying, sex-denying, earth-destroying, and body-ignoring.
The two could no longer be united, and historically the Ascenders and the Descenders went virtually their separate ways.
The Descenders are destroying this world, because this world is the only world they have.
What the Descenders lacked was the other half of the equation, the nondual view: both good and evil can be transcended.
The Descenders had fundamentally triumphedin rejecting the bathwater of myth they had tossed out the baby of Ascent: no deeper or higher stages than the rational-ego and its empirical world were acknowledged.
Idealism left the Descenders virtually unchallenged as the molders of modernity.
The collapse of Idealism left the Descenders virtually unchallenged as the holders and molders of modernity.
I believe, that the Descenders became the inheritors of frustrated Ascentthe ever-frustrated desire to move up became the ever-frustrating desire to move forward.
The Descenders accuse the Ascenders of being repressive, puritanical, life-denying, sex-denying, earth-destroying, and body-ignoring.