ascending

[ US /əˈsɛndɪŋ/ ]
[ UK /ɐsˈɛndɪŋ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. moving or going or growing upward
    the ascending plane
    the ascending staircase
    the ascending stems of chickweed
NOUN
  1. the act of changing location in an upward direction
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How To Use ascending In A Sentence

  • The third form of B vitamin useful to crystalline biology is not found in foods as much as produced by new glands in the ascending genetic blueprint.
  • 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. Not one to shy away from a challenge (Music (For Robots))
  • From time to time they could see the glimmer of sun on an ascending vehicle. A PLAGUE OF ANGELS
  • Making our way up the gently ascending road that cut its way through the forest, we saw hordes of greedy monkeys waiting for freebies.
  • Mr Fournier will spend around three hours ascending in an enclosed lightweight gondola before deflating the balloon and parachuting back to earth in six minutes and 25 seconds.
  • After ascending the elliptical stairs past a couple small galleries, one is immediately struck by the bright orange carpet laid across most of the fourth floor.
  • The lingual artery may provide the following unusual branches: the superior laryngeal, the submental, and the ascending palatine arteries.
  • A little in this way -- but these similes are very imperfect, and will not bear close application -- the sap rises in a tree, stealing up branch by branch; and it is then called _ascending sap_. The History of a Mouthful of Bread And its effect on the organization of men and animals
  • High in the Alps is a monument raised in honour of a faithful guide who perished while ascending a peak to rescue a stranded tourist.
  • Among sports we have terms like parascending and surfari, and nonce adjectives such as sportsational or swimsational which blend words with the last element of sensational.
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