Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To heave upward on a wave or swell.
- noun The rising movement of a ship on a wave or swell.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Upward angular displacement of the hull of a vessel measured in a longitudinal vertical plane at right angles with and on either side of a horizontal transverse axis passing through the center of flotation.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The
rising motion of water as awave passes; asurge
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb rise or heave upward under the influence of a natural force such as a wave
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Pour years ago it had been soprano; as he grew and matured, it would de - scend to the tenor range.
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The hens could fly high, out of range of the arrows, but would have to de - scend to within range to snatch the flag.
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The volunteers and military personell from my community that are already on the scend never stopped to ask the racial makeup of those who needed help.
Think Progress » By the Numbers: In Katrina’s Wake, Race and Class Largely Ignored 2005
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What did you think of the scend in “Sideways” where he gets smashed in the face with the motorcycle helmet?
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She turned to see that he seemed a bit blurry-a green haze was starting to de-scend upon the bridge.
Demons Of Air And Darkness DeCandido, Keith R. A. 2001
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With half a moon in the sky they sailed out of the confined waterways and felt the scend of the open sea lift the deck beneath their feet.
Warlock Smith, Wilbur 2001
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Big Red had tried sailing out of this soup without success, and the Wing Riders had been forced to de - scend to the makeshift rafts to wait out the front's passing.
Ilse Witch Brooks, Terry 2000
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Pour years ago it had been soprano; as he grew and matured, it would de - scend to the tenor range.
Unicorn Point Anthony, Piers 1989
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The hens could fly high, out of range of the arrows, but would have to de - scend to within range to snatch the flag.
Unicorn Point Anthony, Piers 1989
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Seen in this light natural law appears as a group of principles that tran - scend the law of different epochs and regrouping a set of norms endowed with a certain continuity by opposi - tion to the law of a given epoch, which is transitory and changing; for the law of any epoch is the inter - preter of the preceding one, whereas natural law is the law which outlives the times.
Dictionary of the History of Ideas PAUL FORIERS 1968
chained_bear commented on the word scend
"Bonden at the tiller gauging the scend of the sea, alternately filling a trifle and then luffing up..."
--Patrick O'Brian, The Ionian Mission, 27
February 11, 2008