What's the difference between ascension and ascent?

Ascension


Definition:

  • (n.) The act of ascending; a rising; ascent.
  • (n.) Specifically: The visible ascent of our Savior on the fortieth day after his resurrection. (Acts i. 9.) Also, Ascension Day.
  • (n.) An ascending or arising, as in distillation; also that which arises, as from distillation.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Interpretation of scans was equivocal in another 18% of patients due to undetectable ascension of the tracer to the uterus.
  • (2) Particular interest is paid to trisomy 21 in which all recognizable stereotyped morphological skull and brain malformations are depicted with magnetic resonance and some other malformations demonstrated such as the excessive forward bending and ascension of the brainstem which correlated well with a simian cephalic organization.
  • (3) It was also clear it was going to be a close contest, and heated by the antagonism between the incumbent president, Joyce Banda, and her main rival, Peter Mutharika, who led an earlier effort to block her rightful ascension to power.
  • (4) Several parameters exhibited characteristic changes during anoxia and reoxygenation: during the first minutes of reoxygenation in the ascension of the first peak the 'time to peak force', the 'relaxation time' and the 'area under the contraction curve', especially the part below the relaxation, were strongly but only transiently increased.
  • (5) In other items, the MoD spent: • £2.2m on rents and rates to the Ascension Island government whose airport the RAF uses for planes flying to the Falkands.
  • (6) Abbott has in an interview with Fairfax unleashed a fresh tirade about Julie Bishop , accusing her of peddling falsehoods about the events leading up to Turnbull’s ascension.
  • (7) Purnell's ascension to the backbenches will add to the many meetings Cruddas has been convening in the last few days to figure out what to do.
  • (8) The ascension of Justin Welby to archbishop of Canterbury is confirmation of the quiet parallel rise of a controversial evangelical church in central London to become the most influential congregation in the Church of England.
  • (9) Activity was temperature dependent and no obvious preference of vegetation species for ascension was detected.
  • (10) Donald Trump’s ascension to the presidency has been marked with tough talk on China and he has surrounded himself with a clique of China-bashing advisers.
  • (11) It started off with great promise, we got a room with a view, we got an extra staff member – but not much else,” Day said of Turnbull’s ascension to the prime ministership in September last year.
  • (12) Based upon the drag calculations for young turtles, it is estimated that adult turtles making the round-trip breeding migration between Brazil and Ascension Island (4800 km) would require the equivalent of about 21% of their body mass in fat stores to account for the energetic cost of swimming.
  • (13) The demonstrated postoperativ ascension of bacteria in the upper urinary tract in spite of successfull surgical treatment cannot be taken as an argument against operation.
  • (14) Reflux is not the cause of the ascension of microorganisms into the urinary bladder, yet it enables bacteria to reach the kidney and fosters pyelonephritis, persistent infections and nephropathy with all its consequences.
  • (15) Marked improvement in mictional disorders was obtained also in the 3rd case after excision of a sacral extradural lipoma and section of the filum terminale, allowing objective ascension of the medullary cone by 4 cm.
  • (16) The best correlations between echo and phonocardiography are the values of aortic valve opening and : --hemi-ascension time (r = 0.67); --left ventricular ejectiontime (r = 0.93) when patients in cardiac failure are excluded.
  • (17) The sonographically determined ascension of the bladder content into the renal pelvis is called "positive MSU".
  • (18) This observation suggested that urine taxis of gram-negative bacteria promotes their invasion of the human lower urinary tract and their ascension to the kidney(s).
  • (19) Estrogens cause softening, opening, and ascension of the cervix, while progesterone causes descent and hardening.
  • (20) Those of us who are nearly her age can remember the Queen’s ascension to the throne and the cheerful delight with which people talked of the “New Elizabethan age”.

Ascent


Definition:

  • () The act of rising; motion upward; rise; a mounting upward; as, he made a tedious ascent; the ascent of vapors from the earth.
  • () The way or means by which one ascends.
  • () An eminence, hill, or high place.
  • () The degree of elevation of an object, or the angle it makes with a horizontal line; inclination; rising grade; as, a road has an ascent of five degrees.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Blood samples were collected from an antecubital vein at sea level (S1), in a base camp at 1515 m prior to the summit ascent (S2), on the summit at 3285 m after 6.5 hours of climbing (S3), at base camp immediately after the descent (S4), and at sea level following a trail descent from the base camp (S5).
  • (2) After unsuccessful treatment with surgical debridement and high-dose antibiotic therapy, hyperbaric oxygen therapy was administered in a multiplace recompression chamber (one hour of treatment at 1.8 atmospheres absolute followed by a 30 minute "ascent" to surface pressure).
  • (3) It expresses the ratio between the partial pressure of the dissolved gas and the reduction of hydrostatic pressure during ascent (given as pressure gradient).
  • (4) Grace's ascent has also thrown a grenade into the bitter succession battle within Zanu-PF, which Mugabe has divided and ruled for decades.
  • (5) The open-sea dives were carried out with an average speed of descent of 3.95 feet per second and an average rate of ascent of 3.50 feet per second.
  • (6) It will be payback time, after Mutharika and five other ministers were arrested and charged with treason for trying to block her ascent.
  • (7) According to Wangchu Sherpa, an official from the Nepal Mountaineering Association in Kathmandu, Upadhyay had arrived at the Everest base camp in mid-April and had been waiting for good weather to start acclimatising for his ascent.
  • (8) It's a pointy peak in the middle of the Tijuca forest, the last portion of which involves a steep ascent up steps cut into the bare rock, hanging on to an iron chain.
  • (9) There was a diuresis with negative fluid balance towards the end of the ascent and again early in descent.
  • (10) The road-race course, on the other hand, has two ascents of Box Hill, which will definitely suit Pooley's climbing ability.
  • (11) In diagnosis it is necessary to distin guish between unnoticed expulsion, ascent of the tail into the cavity, and perforation.
  • (12) The walk that will always stay in my mind is one that I enjoyed with my climbing partner Paul Ramsden and our liaison officer, Dawa, after we had made the first ascent of beautiful Manamcho (6,264m) in the Nyainqentanglha East range of eastern Tibet.
  • (13) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Nima Dorchi at work establishing a safe route through the Khumbu iceflow, a key stage of the Everest mountain range ascent.
  • (14) "Mr Valls's ascent is partly thanks to a keen eye for what looks good in the media, and a matching energy to supply it," the magazine wrote.
  • (15) The electromyograms produced by the prime mover muscles (sternal portion of pectoralis major, anterior deltoid, long head of triceps brachii) achieved maximal activation at the commencement of the ascent phase of the lift and maintained this level essentially unchanged throughout the upward movement of the bar.
  • (16) The spectacular ascent that saw him grace the cover of Newsweek as Asian of the Year and become the heir apparent of then prime minister Mahathir Mohamad was met with an equally spectacular crash in 1998, when the two fell out and Anwar was imprisoned for six years on corruption and sodomy charges, claims he repeatedly dismissed as politically motivated.
  • (17) After the collapse of the Soviet Union Putin enjoyed a spectacular ascent : aide to St Petersburg mayor Anatoly Sobchak; deputy mayor; head of the FSB spy agency; prime minister.
  • (18) Zero order kinetics is deduced from the linear ascent of the cumulated AUC (in percent) vs. time plot.
  • (19) In the supine position ear clearing was significantly more difficult during both ascent and descent, which indicates that it is preferable to assume an upright body posture during exposures to pressure changes in dry pressure chambers.
  • (20) The 60th anniversary of the first ascent of the 8,848 metre (29,028ft) peak by Sir Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay will be celebrated next week.