ascent

Roget category 305

2. Words relating to space
› 2.4. Motion
›› 2.4.4. Motion with reference to direction

#305. [Motion upwards] Ascent

noun

ascent, ascension — rising etc. 309 — acclivity, hill etc. 217 — flight of steps, flight of stairs — ladder rocket, lark — sky rocket, sky lark — Alpine Club.

verb

ascend, rise, mount, arise, uprise — go up, get up, work one's way up, start up — shoot up, go into orbit — float up — bubble up — aspire.
climb, clamber, ramp, scramble, escalade^†, surmount — shin, shinny, shinney — scale, scale the heights.
[cause to go up] raise, elevate etc. 307.
go aloft, fly aloft — tower, soar, take off — spring up, pop up, jump up, catapult upwards, explode upwards — hover, spire, plane, swim, float, surge — leap etc. 309.

adjective

rising etc. v.. scandent^†, buoyant — supernatant, superfluitant^† — excelsior.

adverb

uphill.

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