different between ascend vs upsend

English

Etymology

From Middle English ascenden, borrowed from Old French ascendre, from Latin ascend? (“to go up, climb up to”), from ad (“to”) + scand? (“to climb”); see scan. Unrelated to accede other than common ad prefix.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??s?nd/
• Rhymes: -?nd
• Hyphenation: as?cend

Verb

ascend (third-person singular simple present ascends, present participle ascending, simple past and past participle ascended)

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

   He ascended to heaven upon a cloud.

2. (intransitive) To slope in an upward direction.
3. (transitive) To go up.

   You ascend the stairs and take a right.

4. (transitive) To succeed.

   She ascended the throne when her mother abdicated.

5. (intransitive, figuratively) To rise; to become higher, more noble, etc.
6. To trace, search or go backwards temporally (e.g., through records, genealogies, routes, etc.).

   Our inquiries ascend to the remotest antiquity.

7. (transitive, music) To become higher in pitch.

Antonyms

• descend

Related terms

• ascent
• ascendant
• ascendance
• ascendancy/ascendency
• ascending
• ascender
• ascension
• transcend

Translations

See also

• climb

Further reading

• ascend in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• ascend in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• Dances, dances, decans, descan

French

Verb

ascend

1. third-person singular present indicative of ascendre

English

Etymology

From Middle English upsenden, equivalent to up- +? send. Cognate with Scots upsend (“to ascend”), Dutch opzenden (“to redirect, forward”), Low German upsenden (“to send up, deliver (mail)”), Swedish uppsända (“to offer up”).

Verb

upsend (third-person singular simple present upsends, present participle upsending, simple past and past participle upsent)

1. (transitive, archaic) To send, cast, or throw up; deliver; submit.
   • 1808, John Fitchett, Alfred, a poem:

     And now upsend afar a deaf'ning shout [...]

   • 1873, Aeschylus, The Dramas of Aeschylus:

     Hermes and Earth and Thou, Monarch of Hades, do ye now His spirit to the light upsend; [...]

   • 1981, Doris May Lessing, Briefing for a Descent Into Hell:

     Down and down, but the corky sea upsends me to the light again, and there under my hand is rock, a port in the storm, a little peaking black rock that no main mariner has struck before me, nor map ever charted, just a single black basalt rock, [...]

2. (intransitive, US, Scotland) To ascend; climb up.
   • 1919, Harry Lyman Koopman, Hesperia: an American national poem:

     But when the sun of the fifth day had risen, The Keepers of the Faith, upon a pyre Built near the council-house, with solemn rites Burnt the White Dog, upsending with the smoke The message of their loyalty and thanks.

Noun

upsend (plural upsends)

1. That which is upsent, or sent up; a deliverable.
   • 1982, American Bankers Association, ABA banking journal:

     The Trans-Vista 2000 offers Mosler options like upsend capability, automatic carrier return and fast, accurate customer identification.

   • 2008, Independent Bankers Association of America, Independent banker:

     For example, with a variety of upsend and downsend customer units, and upsend and downsend teller units, we can mix-and-match standard components to create the custom configuration designed to best meet your unique operational [...]

Anagrams

• ends up, send up, send-up, sendup, unsped, up-ends, upends