different between ascent vs ascender

English

Etymology

Formed from ascend on the model of descend/descent.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??s?nt/
• Rhymes: -?nt
• Homophone: assent
• Hyphenation: as?cent

Noun

ascent (countable and uncountable, plural ascents)

1. The act of ascending; a motion upwards.

   He made a tedious ascent of Mont Blanc.

2. The way or means by which one ascends.

   There is a difficult northern ascent from Malaucene of Mont Ventoux.

3. An eminence, hill, or high place.
4. The degree of elevation of an object, or the angle it makes with a horizontal line; inclination; rising grade.

   The road has an ascent of 5 degrees.

5. (typography) The ascender height in a typeface.
6. An increase, for example in popularity or hierarchy
   • 22 March 2012, Scott Tobias, AV Club The Hunger Games[1]

     That such a safe adaptation could come of The Hunger Games speaks more to the trilogy’s commercial ascent than the book’s actual content, which is audacious and savvy in its dark calculations.

Translations

Anagrams

• casten, enacts, scante, secant, stance

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.