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  • 31ascension — I (Roget s IV) n. Syn. ascent, rising, climbing; see rise 1 . II (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) n. scaling. see ascent III (Roget s Thesaurus II) noun 1. The act of rising or moving upward: ascent, rise, rising. See RISE. 2. The act of moving upward… …

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  • 32rising — I (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. climbing, ascending, mounting, soaring, increasing, skyrocketing, advancing, growing, on the rise, on the increase, spiraling, going up, moving up, surging up, sloping upward, slanting up, taking off, going aloft,… …

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  • 33highflying — adjective 1. moving upward or along at a considerable height some highflying fighter pilot fired a cannon shell into it • Similar to: ↑ascending 2. extravagant or ambitious or extreme in aims or opinions they did not understand what had happend… …

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  • 34climb — climbable, adj. /kluym/, v.i. 1. to go up or ascend, esp. by using the hands and feet or feet only: to climb up a ladder. 2. to rise slowly by or as if by continued effort: The car laboriously climbed to the top of the mountain. 3. to ascend or… …

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  • 35climb — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. mount, scale, ascend, rise, go up; succeed; clamber, scramble, shin[ny]. See ascent, descent. II (Roget s IV) n. 1. [The act of climbing] Syn. climbing, clamber, mounting, ascent; see rise 1 . 2. [An… …

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  • 36painting — /payn ting/, n. 1. a picture or design executed in paints. 2. the act, art, or work of a person who paints. 3. the works of art painted in a particular manner, place, or period: a book on Flemish painting. 4. an instance of covering a surface… …

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  • 37Chordal space — Music theorists have often used graphs, tilings, and geometrical spaces to represent the relationship between chords. We can describe these spaces as chord spaces or chordal spaces, though the terms are relatively recent in origin. Contents 1… …

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  • 38Upstroke — Up stroke , n. An upward stroke, especially the stroke, or line, made by a writing instrument when moving upward, or from the body of the writer, or a line corresponding to the part of a letter thus made. [1913 Webster] Some upstroke of an Alpha… …

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  • 39ascendant — I. noun also ascendent Etymology: Middle English ascendent, from Medieval Latin ascendent , ascendens, from Latin, present participle of ascendere Date: 14th century 1. the point of the ecliptic or degree of the zodiac that rises above the… …

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  • 40Free-fall — is motion with no acceleration other than that provided by gravity. Since this definition does not specify velocity, it also applies to objects initially moving upward. Although the definition specifically excludes all other forces such as… …

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