() 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.
Typeface
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) And Slimane is nothing if not single-minded: everything bearing his name – from show invitations to photography books to his online diary uses the same Helvetica typeface.
(2) Each word appeared in a typeface whose qualities were either consistent or inconsistent with its meaning.
(3) (2) Calorie count given larger and bolder typeface.
(4) And, while he's been a successful technologist and entrepreneur and invented devices that have changed our world – the first flatbed scanner, the first computer program that could recognise a typeface, the first text-to-speech synthesizer and dozens more – and has been an important and influential advocate of artificial intelligence and what it will mean, he has also always been a lone voice in, if not quite a wilderness, then in something other than the mainstream.
(5) Subjects viewed a series of 4 x 4 grids each containing seven items, which were letters and numbers in one of four typefaces.
(6) He used the sans serif typefaces Standard and Helvetica for the author, book title and series name, always in the same size and position above the image, which, on fiction titles, could be a painting, a drawing or a photograph of a piece of sculpture.
(7) Just look at the cover of Ware's debut album : she's pictured hair swept-up, with strong brows, the 80s-style typeface only underlining the point.
(8) Gill Sans, the sans serif typeface used on the covers of pre-war Penguin books, is rightly lauded in the current V&A Modernism exhibition as the first British modernist type design.
(9) And now, as a typeface designer, I see part of it is the typefaces being used.
(10) Type has a lot of effect on the atmosphere of a place, he says, calling it “the voice of the city”: “I think cities that don’t have this very dynamic energy, they don’t feel the need to change their identity.” That identity, for many of the world’s largest cities, is intimately tied up with typeface.
(11) Responses on trials in which the animal and typeface possessed conflicting attributes were significantly slower than responses when animal and typeface qualities were congruent.
(12) Later judgments of the relative frequency with which particular letters appeared in particular typefaces were unaffected by a warning about an upcoming frequency judgment task, but were affected by both the time available for processing the stimuli and the nature of the cover task subjects engaged in while viewing the grids.
(13) Trump’s name was emblazoned on it in a font called Akzidenz-Grotesk, a typeface popular 30 years ago.
(14) Technology and design sectors blossomed, and many of the old factories became homes to creative start-ups.As part of the effort to rebrand itself, it seemed apt that Eindhoven should turn to an aspect of design – namely, typeface.
(15) He made models of the trees; but he found that when he laid the drawings out, he could also create a repeat pattern – and even find letters of the alphabet, a typeface as it were, within the shapes.
(16) Because Sheffield was home to the type foundry Stephenson Blake & Co, officials attempted to use the company’s Granby Condensed as the city’s official typeface – an attempt that proved difficult in practice and led to the creation of Wayfarer , still visible around the city today.
(17) Describing the redesign (more white space and uncluttered layouts, new typeface and orange signposting), the art director, Nick Cave, says, "It was great to have the freedom to try things.
(18) Photograph: Jon Worth When Koovit finally arrived at his original destination, he did some research and found not only that the design community was picking its brains over the origins of the U8 typeface – “Neuzeit Grotesk” and “Wiener Rundblock” were some of the names bandied about on forums – but also that no one had bothered to digitise the font since the U8 line was built at the time of the first world war.
(19) She and Suhre now want to tap into this heritage, via a competition to design a new typeface, but also to “suggest a way that design might be the suggested way to solve our city’s problems”.
(20) The sculptor and typeface designer Eric Gill is, thanks to MacCarthy's 1989 biography, as renowned for his eye-opening sex life as he is for his importance to the Arts and Crafts movement.