descend

Definition of descend in English English dictionary: To make an attack, or incursion, as if from a vantage ground; to come suddenly and with violence; -- with on or upon
And on the suitors let thy wrath descend. Alexander Pope.; To pass from a higher to a lower place; to move downwards; to come or go down in any way, as by falling, flowing, walking, etc.; to plunge; to fall; to incline downward
We will here descend to matters of later date. Fuller.; To pass from the more general or important to the particular or less important matters to be considered; To enter mentally; to retire
with holiest meditations fed, Into himself descended. John Milton.; To come down to a lower, less fortunate, humbler, less virtuous, or worse, state or station; to lower or abase one's self; as, he descended from his high estate; To move toward the south, or to the southward; To come down, as from a source, original, or stock; to be derived; to proceed by generation or by transmission; to fall or pass by inheritance; as, the beggar may descend from a prince; a crown descends to the heir; To fall in pitch; to pass from a higher to a lower tone; To go down upon or along; to pass from a higher to a lower part of; as, they descended the river in boats; to descend a ladder
But never tears his cheek descended. Byron.; {v} to come down or from, spring, sink; When night, dusk, or darkness descends, it starts to get dark. Darkness has now descended and the moon and stars shine hazily in the clear sky. = fall; VARCHAR2(4) Whether the column is sorted in descending order (Y/N); come from; be connected by a relationship of blood, for example; "She was descended from an old Italian noble family"; "he comes from humble origins"; {f} go down; be handed down (from generation to generation); lower oneself morally; Params: -; do something that one considers to be below one's dignity; come as if by falling; "Night fell"; "Silence fell"; To make an attack, or incursion, as if from a vantage ground; to come suddenly and with violence; with on or upon; move downward and lower, but not necessarily all the way; "The temperature is going down"; "The barometer is falling"; "The curtain fell on the diva"; "Her hand went up and then fell again"; If you descend or if you descend a staircase, you move downwards from a higher to a lower level. Things are cooler and more damp as we descend to the cellar She descended one flight of stairs. = go down rise, ascend; emphasis When you want to emphasize that the situation that someone is entering is very bad, you can say that they are descending into that situation. He was ultimately overthrown and the country descended into chaos. = fall, slide; To enter mentally; to retire. [Poetic]; vt turun; When a mood or atmosphere descends on a place or on the people there, it affects them by spreading among them. An uneasy calm descended on the area = fall; To come down to a lower, less fortunate, humbler, less virtuous, or worse, state or station; to lower or abase ones self; as, he descended from his high estate; If a large group of people arrive to see you, especially if their visit is unexpected or causes you a lot of work, you can say that they have descended on you. 3,000 city officials descended on Capitol Hill to lobby for more money; To pass from a higher to a lower place; to move downwards; to come or go down in any way, as by falling, flowing, walking, etc; to plunge; to fall; to incline downward; the opposite of ascend; disapproval If you say that someone descends to behaviour which you consider unacceptable, you are expressing your disapproval of the fact that they do it. We're not going to descend to such methods = stoop, sink; An increase in speed (i e , decrease in time) from one piece to the next during a set Example: "3 X 100 descend" means "swim the first 100 at a moderate pace, the second a bit faster, and the third even faster still " Example: "6 X 100, descend by 3's" means "swim the first 100 at moderate pace, the second a bit faster, and the third even faster still; then repeat this pattern for the next three 100s "; come down
descend from: be the progeny or offspring of, be a descendant of
descend upon: fall upon, come down on, land on
descendant: One which derives directly from a given precursor or source
This famous medieval manuscript has many descendants.
descendant: proceeding from a figurative ancestor or source
descendant: One who is the progeny of someone at any distance of time
The patriarch survived many descendants: five children, a dozen grandchildren, even a great grandchild.
descendant: A later evolutionary type
Dogs evolved as descendants of early wolves.
descendant: descending from a biological ancestor
descended: Simple past tense and past participle of descend
descendible: Of property, able to pass by descent; inheritable by heirs
descendant: one who is descended lineally from another, as a child, grandchild, etc
descendant: Person who is descended from another person, for example, a child, grandchild, or great-grandchild
descendant: Those person who are born of, or from children of, another are called that person's descendants Grandchildren are descendants of their grandfather as children are descendants of their natural parents The law also distinguishes between collateral descendants and lineal descendants
descendant: Something modern which developed from an older thing can be called a descendant of it. His design was a descendant of a 1956 device ancestor
descendant: One who descends from another; one's child, offspring
descendant: {n} the offspring or race of an ancestor
descendant: {a} proceeding from another, falling
descendant: {i} offspring (child, grandchild, etc.)
descendant: The descendant is the sun sign that is on the cusp of the 7th house
descendant: A descendant node of any node A is any node below A in a tree model of a document, where "above" means "toward the root "
descendant: Any node contained within the content of an element The children and their children are descendants Example: <p>This is a list <ul> <li>item 1</li> <li><em>item 2</em></li> </ul> with 2 items </p> The element "p" has direct children
descendant: going or coming down
descendant: Your descendants are your children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren, and so on -- anyone to whom you are an ancestor
descendant: In OOP any class that is higher (away from TObject) in the hierarchy chain from a particular class is a descendant of that class All classes in C++Builder are descendants of TObject For example, all components are descendants of TComponent even though almost all of them have immediate ancestors further down the chain See "Implementation of TObject" for more information
descendant: The opposite point to the Ascendant, usually the cusp of the 7th house, also known as the Western Angle
descendant: One who descends, as offspring, however remotely; correlative to ancestor or ascendant
descendant: a person descended from his or her older generations
descendant: Descendent
descendant: The 7th house cusp of a chart, assumed to indicate attributes we seek and attract in others (particularly partners) Astronomically, the intersection of the horizon and the ecliptic in the west
descendant: one who is descended, however remotely, from another
descendant: a person considered as descended from some ancestor or race going or coming down
descendant: The descendants of a transaction are all the transactions that were spawned by the parent transaction or by any child or other descendant of that transaction
descendant: Someone's descendants are the people in later generations who are related to them. They are descendants of the original English and Scottish settlers. ancestor
descendant: One who is the progeny of someone at any distance of time; e.g. a child; a grandchild, etc
descendant: Any member below a parent in the database outline For example, in the Sample Basic database, Qtr2 and April are descendants of Year
descendant: A later type; as, dogs evolved from relatives of early wolves
descendant: An immediate or remote offspring
descendant: Letter L is a descendant of letter M if M is an ancestor of L
descendant: Your descendant is someone whose ancestry can be traced to you: your child, grandchild, great-grandchild, etc
descendant: The seventh house (or its cusp), governing marriage, partnership and open confrontation
descendant: a person considered as descended from some ancestor or race
descendant: One of a class's subclasses, one of its subclasses's subclasses, etc Sometimes the word descendant includes the class itself, along with its proper descendants
descendant: A descendant node of any node A is any node below A in a tree model, where "below" means "away from the root "
descendant: The point in the birth chart opposite to the Ascendant; the cusp of the seventh house
descendants: all of the offspring of a given progenitor; "we must secure the benefits of freedom for ourselves and our posterity
descendants: {i} posterity; all the offsprings to the remotest degree of a particular person; future generations
descendants: plural of descendant
descended: An animal that is descended from another sort of animal has developed from the original sort
descended: past of descend
descended: A person who is descended from someone who lived a long time ago is directly related to them. She told us she was descended from some Scottish Lord
descendible: That may descend from an ancestor to an heir
descendible: Admitting descent; capable of being descended
descendible: {s} may be passed down to one's descendants, may be transferred genetically
descending: present participle of descend
descending: Of or pertaining to descent; moving downwards
descending: When a group of things is listed or arranged in descending order, each thing is smaller or less important than the thing before it. All the other ingredients, including water, have to be listed in descending order by weight. ascending
descending: Sorting items in order from greater to lesser importance or value
descending: a sort in which the values of items decreases
descending: {s} going down
descending: Planets appear to be descending between the tenth house cusp via the descendant and that of the fourth, when they begin to ascend Descending planets are considered weaker than ascending ones
descending: Said of an animal or bird the head of which is represented turned toward the base of the shield
descending: coming down or downward
descends: Third person singular simple present of to descend

descend

Hyphenation

de·scend

Turkish pronunciation

dîsend

Synonyms

cascade, cataract, cave in, coast, collapse, crash, crouch, decline, deplane, detrain, dip, disembark, dismount, dive, dribble

Antonyms

ascend, go up, increase, rise

Pronunciation

/dəˈsend/ /dɪˈsɛnd/

Etymology

[ di-'send, dE- ] (verb.) 13th century. Middle English decenden Old French descendre Latin descendere, past participle descensus (“to come down, go down, fall, sink”) de- (“down”) + scandere (“to climb”). See scan, scandent. Compare ascend, condescend, transcend.