different between ascending vs ascender

English

Pronunciation

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

Verb

ascending

1. Present participle and gerund of ascend.

Adjective

ascending (not comparable)

1. (of a sequence) Ordered such that each element is greater than or equal to the previous element.

   Antonym: descending

2. (computing) That causes a sequence to follow an ascending order.

   Antonym: descending

Translations

Noun

ascending (plural ascendings)

1. An ascent.

   continual ascendings and descendings

English

Etymology

ascend +? -er

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?nd?(?)

Noun

ascender (plural ascenders)

1. A person or thing that ascends.
2. (typography, graphology) The portion of a lowercase letter that extends above the midline.
   • 2004, Alan Hollinghurst, The Line of Beauty, Bloomsbury, 2005, Chapter 1,

     Catherine had a paperback called Graphology: The Mind in the Hand, which gave her all sorts of warnings about people’s tendencies and repressions (“Artist or Madman?” “Pet or Brute?”). “It's those enormous ascenders, darling,” she said: “I see a lot of ego.”

3. (climbing) a mechanical device used for ascending on a rope; ascendeur.

Coordinate terms

• descender

Related terms

• ascend
• ascent
• ascendant
• ascendance
• ascendancy/ascendency
• ascending

Translations

Anagrams

• reascend

Interlingua

Verb

ascender

1. to ascend, go up

Conjugation

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin ascendo, ascendere.

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /a.s?.?de(?)/

Verb

ascender (first-person singular present indicative ascendo, past participle ascendido)

1. (intransitive) to ascend; to rise

   Synonyms: subir, alçar

Conjugation

Related terms

• ascensão
• descender

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin ascendo, ascendere.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /as?en?de?/, [as.??n??d?e?]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America) /asen?de?/, [a.s?n??d?e?]

Verb

ascender (first-person singular present asciendo, first-person singular preterite ascendí, past participle ascendido)

1. to ascend, to mount, to climb

   Antonym: descender

2. (business) to advance
3. (of status) to rise

Conjugation

Related terms

Further reading

• “ascender” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.