英语词汇“ascensions”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

单词

ascensions

释义

ascend /ə-sendˈ/

intransitive verb

To go up, mount, rise
To go back in time or ancestry

transitive verb

To go up, mount, climb
To trace back in time or ancestry
To go up to (Shakespeare)

ORIGIN: L ascendere, ascēnsum, from ad to, and scandere to climb

ascendˈance or ascendˈence (both rare), now usuascendˈancy or ascendˈency noun

Dominating influence

ascendˈant or less commonly ascendˈent noun

The part of the ecliptic just risen or about to rise above the horizon at any instant (a planet in the ascendant is supposed to influence a person born at the time) (astrology)
A position of pre-eminence
An ancestor or relative in the ascending line
A person who rises or mounts (obsolete)
A rise, up-slope (obsolete)

adjective

Rising
Just risen above the horizon
Predominant

ascendˈer noun

A person or thing that ascends
(the upper part of) a letter such as b, d, h, k (printing, etc)
A metal grip threaded on a rope as a foothold or aid to climbing (mountaineering)

ascendˈible (also ascendˈable) adjective

Scalable

ascendˈing adjective

Rising
Curving up from a prostrate to an erect position (botany)

ascension /-senˈshən/ noun

Ascent (a Gallicism when used of a mountain ascent)
An ascent to heaven, esp Christ's

ascenˈsional adjective

ascenˈsive adjective

Moving or tending upwards

ascentˈ noun

A going up
Advancement
A going back in time or ancestry
A way up
An up-slope

Ascension Day or Ascenˈsion-day noun (Christianity)

A festival, ten days before Whitsunday, commemorating Christ's Ascension

Ascenˈsiontide noun

The period from Ascension Day to Whitsunday

ascend the throne

To become king or queen

in the ascendant

Increasing in influence, prosperity, etc

right ascension (astronomy)

A co-ordinate of the position of a celestial body measured (usu in terms of time) eastwards along the celestial equator from the First Point of Aries, the other co-ordinate being the declination

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