Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Moving or directed downward; characterized by downward direction.
- Specifically. In botany, turned downward: as, a. descending ovule; the descending axis of a plant, the root, in distinction from the stem or ascending axis.
- Characterized by descent or decrease as regards the value or importance of its constituent members; indicating a continued lowering as regards position, value, or importance: as, a descending scale or series.
Wiktionary
- v. present participle of descend.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Of or pertaining to descent; moving downwards.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. coming down or downward
Examples
“The title descending to heir males, I must have the title by outliving my brother, if I do, but hang it all, she [sic] has a daughter, and she will have the estates. ”
“The other breeds on this year's top 10 include, in descending order: Yorkshire terrier, German shepherd, golden retriever, beagle, boxer, dachshund, poodle and shih tzu.”
“The different sticks are (in descending point value) cerf, chevreuil, renard, blaireau, and lièvre -- and of course the same animals in German.”
“The Cheshire cat's wide, puckish smile descending from the heavens as a crescent moon; the caterpillar puffing opiate smoke into the face of Alice and snobbishly asking, Who ...”
“Which four tech giants get the most ink, screen, and airtime, in descending order?”
“Which four tech giants get the most ink, screen, and airtime, in descending order? a. Apple, Google, Twitter, Facebook”
“Saxon, brooding over her problem of retaining Billy's love, of never staling the freshness of their feeling for each other and of never descending from the heights which at present they were treading, felt herself impelled toward Mrs. Higgins.”
“The entrance was by way of a flight of steps descending from the side-walk to what was properly the cellar of the building.”
“Rounding out the top five smart cities are in descending rank, San Francisco, San Jose, Raleigh, N.C., and Boston.”
The Washington Post: D.C. is America's smartest city. (We won't lord it over you.)
“The thing descending from the sky was unmistakably an ornate ornithopter, wrought in the shape of a gigantic condor, enameled in blue, scarlet, and green.”
Lists
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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
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movement (slow)
words describing slow action or movement
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The Order of Things
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