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The act of rising; motion upward; rise; a mounting upward; as, he made a tedious ascent; the ascent of vapors from the earth.
The degree of elevation of an object, or the angle it makes with a horizontal line; inclination; rising grade; as, a road has an ascent of five degrees.
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A steep ascent in a road.
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A father's or mother's father; an ancestor in the next degree above the father or mother in lineal ascent.
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A precipitous place, hill, mountain, rock, or ascent; any elevated object sloping with a large angle to the plane of the horizon; a precipice.
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Act of rising; also, a steep place; an ascent.
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The rate of regular or graded ascent or descent in a road; grade.
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To reduce to a level, or to an evenly progressive ascent, as the line of a canal or road.
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The rate of ascent or descent; gradient; deviation from a level surface to an inclined plane; -- usually stated as so many feet per mile, or as one foot rise or fall in so many of horizontal distance; as, a heavy grade; a grade of twenty feet per mile, or of 1 in 264.
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An inclined plane; an ascent o/ descent; a grade or gradient; a slope.
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A gradual ascent, or rounded elevation, of land; as, an extensive plain abounding with little swells.
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A frame usually portable, of wood, metal, or rope, for ascent and descent, consisting of two side pieces to which are fastened cross strips or rounds forming steps.
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A steep hill or ascent.
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The act of rising; a rise; an ascent.
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Making a large angle with the plane of the horizon; ascending or descending rapidly with respect to a horizontal line or a level; precipitous; as, a steep hill or mountain; a steep roof; a steep ascent; a steep declivity; a steep barometric gradient.
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Proceeding by steps or degrees; advancing, step by step, as in ascent or descent or from one state to another; regularly progressive; slow; as, a gradual increase of knowledge; a gradual decline.
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A returning ascent or ascension; acclivity.
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Steep; precipitous; abrupt; as, a sharp ascent or descent; a sharp turn or curve.
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Elevation or ascent of the voice; upward change of key; as, a rise of a tone or semitone.
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Divination by means of the ascent or motion of smoke.
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