ascend

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What makes you say that this kind of study can never ascend to the level of science?

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travel up, "We ascended the mountain"; "go up a ladder"; "The mountaineers slowly ascended the steep slope"

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verb

travel up, "We ascended the mountain"; "go up a ladder"; "The mountaineers slowly ascended the steep slope"

verb

go back in order of genealogical succession; "Inheritance may not ascend linearly"

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become king or queen; "She ascended to the throne after the King's death"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for ascend.

verb

travel up, "We ascended the mountain"; "go up a ladder"; "The mountaineers slowly ascended the steep slope"

verb

go back in order of genealogical succession; "Inheritance may not ascend linearly"

verb

become king or queen; "She ascended to the throne after the King's death"

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appear to be moving upward, as by means of tendrils; "the vine climbed up the side of the house"

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go along towards (a river's) source; "The boat ascended the Delaware"

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slope upwards; "The path ascended to the top of the hill"

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come up, of celestial bodies; "The sun also rises"; "The sun uprising sees the dusk night fled..."; "Jupiter ascends"

verb

move to a better position in life or to a better job; "She ascended from a life of poverty to one of great

Example sentences

What makes you say that this kind of study can never ascend to the level of science?

The innocents, they believed, would ascend to heaven.

They're really good at what they do and with some serious willpower and perseverance they can ascend to the tops of their professions.

I particularly love that you used the word "ascend"; I shan't be the first to compare positivism to scientism

Simplistic metaphors are used so frequently for this kind of thing because it prevents the learner from having to ascend more than one conceptual hurdle at a time.

Plus longform writing allows one to transcend mere comment-box arrogance and ascend to the heady heights of bounteous pomposity.

I %!#^ng lived that story, so I know first-hand that it's possible to ascend from poverty to a decent lifestyle through a lot of hard work and determination.

And there are many more examples of both of us, but some "cool kids" continue their downward spiral or continue to ascend to great things as they shed their earlier un-coolness.

If you want to ascend to elite-level hackerdom, then you almost have to put things like attractiveness and popularity on the back burner.

What standards should be communicated to ensure that smart latecomers quickly ascend the company's social network?

And in the eyes of many you probably still are.> Computational intelligence is not some land of super wise geniuses that mere mortals cannot ascend to.

I'd be very surprised if one can ascend to the billion-dollar stratum in America without some very interesting closed-door meetings with strict NDAs.

Zen comes only from knowing when it is time to ascend the gradient, there to find new descending vistas that made the old valley look like a mountain!would that all problems were so conveniently convex.

That new approach caused the stage to violate a set of conditions known as a "safety gate"; there was no way the satellite could ascend to its intended 350km x 750km orbit without crossing the ISS orbit, and no time to check to make sure that no collision would occur.

I can not find the article right now, I think it was erased shortly after being posted.-Fourth, it´s common to do mistakes with the flight modes while on final approach, both with airbus and Boeing, there are several descend and ascend modes, speed modes, and auto-throttle modes.