Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Moving, going, or growing upward: an ascending minor scale.
- adj. Moving or progressing toward a higher level or degree: an ascending order of difficulty.
- adj. Botany Growing or directing upward from a curved or slanted base, as certain plant stems.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Proceeding from a lower position to a higher; rising; moving upward; figuratively, proceeding from the less to the greater; proceeding from a later to an earlier time; rising from grave to acute.
- In botany, growing upward, as the stem of a plant, which is called the ascending axis. Commonly restricted to the sense of growing up obliquely or in a curve from the base, in distinction from
erect , and fromdecumbent or horizontal.
Wiktionary
- v. present participle of ascend.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Rising; moving upward.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the act of changing location in an upward direction
- adj. moving or going or growing upward
Examples
“On the table a column of steam was ascending from the big mixing-pan.”
“So, in ascending order, for the third prize I chose Night Passage, The Thimbles, number 53, especially pleased and heartened to find that in your midst there appears to be a conceptual artist hard at work.”
“My list in ascending order of my happiness when they bit it *.”
“If you do, it means one of three things – in ascending order of unwelcomeness:”
“The top 10, in ascending order of popularity will be revealed during the final homestand, Sept. 22-26.”
“I've talked to lots of reviewers who, like me, are making their year-end lists, and almost all of them seem to agree it's been a challenge to create and sort a list this year, to put games in ascending order of superiority.”
““All companies of the 2007 Fast 50 sorted by rank in ascending order.””
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“If this were my graph, the line would be at a 45 degree angle ascending from the (0,0) point.”
“February 26, 2005 03: 43 schlarb: re: Soul-Junk chronology: all of the full length records run in ascending order from 1950 through, most recently, 1958. conversely all the EP's run in decending order from 1949 through, again most recently, 1937.”
“I slap on in ascending order, a squeeze of lime, Andantol and Hyrdocortisone cream.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘ascending’.
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Guide to the Perplexed
Lexicon of terms set forth in Maimonides 'Guide to the Perplexed'. A fascinating exercise in theosophy and translation if one substitutes these definitions for a "revised" reading of the Old Testa...
eye, apprehend, associations, air, ruah : or ruhoth,..., affection, attribute, approach, accidents, ascending, articulated, back and 119 more...
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movement (fast)
words describing fast action or movement
( open list, randomness, descriptive )
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http://www.wordnik.com...hurry, run, scamper, skip, stride, stampede, trample, scramble, dart, spring, spin, sprint and 141 more...
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movement (slow)
words describing slow action or movement
( open list, randomness, descriptive )
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http://www.wordnik.co...creep, crawl, plod, slouch, idle, lumber, tiptoe, bend, amble, mosey, saunter, loiter and 117 more...
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RELI - Genesis
Protagonists and relevant words in the Book of Creation (Source: King James Bible)
wrath, leaf, belly, prey, death, break, six, nod, dim, end, inn, judge and 1286 more...
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The Order of Things
Tweets
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