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# ascent

«ascent» in Mova's school dictionary: **a climb up a mountain, hill or stairs** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (an ascent, ascents)

### meaning for a pupil

1) An ascent is a climb up a mountain, hill or stairs. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/ascent/#m1)

2) An ascent is an upward slope or path. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/ascent/#m2)

3) An ascent is a rise to a higher position, power or level. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/ascent/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In geography and stories: «the ascent of the mountain took four hours». In maths problems the ascent can be a height gained, found by subtraction. In science: a balloon's or rocket's ascent. Opposite: descent.

### examples

- The ascent to the summit was steep. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/ascent/#x1)
- We started our ascent at dawn. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/ascent/#x2)
- The balloon's slow ascent was beautiful. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/ascent/#x3)
- The path makes a gentle ascent through the woods. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/ascent/#x4)
- The ascent from 200 metres to 900 metres is 700 metres. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/ascent/#x5)
- Her ascent to captain surprised no one. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/ascent/#x6)
- Having thus spoken Jupiter withdrew himself and made his ascent to Olympus. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/ascent/#x7)

### note

Homophone trap: «ascent» (a climb) and «assent» (agreement) sound the same. Verb: ascend. Opposite: descent (going down). In maths, ascent = top height − starting height.

### In the corpora

- [And the border of the Amorites was from the ascent of Akrabbim, from Sela, and upward.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JDG.36/)
- [And Gideon the son of Joash returned from the battle from the ascent of Heres.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JDG.237/)
- [A Song of Ascents.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.2350/)
- [A Song of Ascents; of David.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.2359/)
- [A Song of Ascents.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.2369/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «ascent» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/ascent/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.