Ascend vs. Ascent

Ascendverb

(intransitive) To move upward, to fly, to soar.

Ascendverb

(intransitive) To slope in an upward direction.

Ascendverb

(transitive) To go up.

Ascendverb

(transitive) To succeed.

Ascendverb

(figurative) To rise; to become higher, more noble, etc.

Ascendverb

To move upward; to mount; to go up; to rise; - opposed to descend.

Ascendverb

To rise, in a figurative sense; to proceed from an inferior to a superior degree, from mean to noble objects, from particulars to generals, from modern to ancient times, from one note to another more acute, etc.; as, our inquiries ascend to the remotest antiquity; to ascend to our first progenitor.

Ascendverb

To go or move upward upon or along; to climb; to mount; to go up the top of; as, to ascend a hill, a ladder, a tree, a river, a throne.

Ascendverb

travel up,

Ascendverb

go back in order of genealogical succession;

Ascendverb

become king or queen;

Ascendverb

go along towards (a river's) source;

Ascendverb

slope upwards;

Ascendverb

come up, of celestial bodies;

Ascentnoun

The act of ascending; a motion upwards.

Ascentnoun

The way or means by which one ascends.

Ascentnoun

An eminence, hill, or high place.

Ascentnoun

The degree of elevation of an object, or the angle it makes with a horizontal line; inclination; rising grade.

Ascentnoun

(typography) The ascender height in a typeface.

Ascentnoun

An increase, for example in popularity or hierarchy

Ascent

The act of rising; motion upward; rise; a mounting upward; as, he made a tedious ascent; the ascent of vapors from the earth.

Ascent

The way or means by which one ascends.

Ascent

An eminence, hill, or high place.

Ascent

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.

Ascentnoun

an upward slope or grade (as in a road);

Ascentnoun

a movement upward;

Ascentnoun

the act of changing location in an upward direction

Ascentnoun

a climb or walk to the summit of a mountain or hill

Ascentnoun

an upward slope or path that one may walk or climb

Ascentnoun

an instance of rising or moving up through the air

Ascentnoun

a rise to a higher social or professional rank