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- /dɪˈsent/. How to pronounce descent in British English. (English pronunciations of descent from the Cambridge Advanced Learners Dictionary & Thesaurus and from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary, both sources © Cambridge University Press).he answer may seem obvious, but the use of this word can lead to confusion. In the UK and Ireland the word traditionally meant the number 1,000,000,000,000 (a million millions), which is called a trillion in the United States. A billion in the United States is considerably.
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descent de·scent. n. 1. The act or an instance of descending: the slow descent of the scuba divers. 2. a. A way down: fashioned a descent with an ice axe. b. A downward incline or passage; a slope: watched the stones roll down the descent. 3. Hereditary derivation; lineage: a person of African descent.
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descend verb (used without object) 1. to go or pass from a higher to a lower place; move or come down: to descend from the mountaintop. 2. to pass from higher to lower in any scale or series. 3. to go from generals to particulars, as in a discussion. 4. to slope, tend, or lead downward: The path descends to the pond.
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colonel pron: colonel (ˈkɜr nl) with its medial l pronounced as (r), illustrates one source for the apparent vagaries of English spelling: divergence between a word's orthographic development and its established pronunciation.
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descendant usage note. This word may also be spelled descendent, although it should be noted that many sources prefer descendant when referring to the noun and descendent when referring to the adjective.
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- 1 Patrilateral refers to a person’s relations on their father’s side. 2  A type of unilineal descent. 3  In contrast to patrilineal descent, matrilineal descent is tracing an individual’s descent through their mother’s side of the family.4  Also called:5  agnatic.6  agnatic descent. 7  agnation. Patrilateral refers to a person’s relations on their father’s side. 2  A type of unilineal descent. 3  In contrast to patrilineal descent, matrilineal descent is tracing an individual’s descent through their mother’s side of the family. 4  Also called: 5  agnatic. 6  agnatic descent. 7  agnation.
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- Definition of ancestry. 1  1 : line of descent : lineage; especially : honorable, noble, or aristocratic descent. 2  2 : persons initiating or comprising a line of descent : ancestors.
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How to Be a Good Personal Assistant This article outlines the skills and attributes that need to be developed to be a good corporate Personal Assistant (PA). Use this article as a checklist to highlight areas that need development. The best corporate Personal Assistant positions command a good salary but getting to the top of the PA profession requires a number of skills and competencies. Professionalism and confidentiality are the trademarks of a good Personal Assistant.
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- This is a bit late, but I was actually looking for the French translation of the American English word to rappel. As Dearprudence highlighted, this is an American English word that conveys descending a vertical mountain face with a rope fixed at a higher point. descendre en rappel = to rappel.
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- For condoms to be sold, 99.6 percent of condoms subjected to quality control tests must pass a “water test” – that is, they must not leak when filled with 800 milliliters of water. Condoms are a highly effective barrier against even the smallest sexually transmitted virus (hepatitis B).
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genealogy A record or table of the descent of a person, family, or group from an ancestor or ancestors; a family tree. 2. Direct descent from an ancestor; lineage or pedigree. 3. The study or investigation of ancestry and family histories.
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pedigree On old manuscripts, descent was indicated by a forked sign resembling the branching lines of a genealogical chart; the sign also happened to look like a bird's footprint. Form influenced in Middle English by association with degree. Meaning ancestral line is mid-15c.; of animals, c.1600.
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- ascent-a movement upward; they cheered the rise of the hot-air balloon. rising, ascension, rise. change of location, travel-a movement through space that changes the location of something. climbing, mounting, climb-an event that involves rising to a higher point (as in altitude or temperature or intensity etc.).y means of ascent and descent consist simply in dilating or contracting the gas that is in the balloon by the application of different temperatures, and here is the method of obtaining that result.
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- patrilineal descent. (noun) Tracing an individual’s descent through their father’s side of the family. Audio Pronunciation: (pat·ri·lin·e·al de·scent). Download Audio Pronunciation: patrilineal descent .mp3. Usage Notes: 1  Plural: patrilineal descents. 2  An agnate is blood relative in a patrilineal descent. Patrilateral refers to a person’s relations on their father’s side. 2  A type of unilineal descent. 3  In contrast to patrilineal descent, matrilineal descent is tracing an individual’s descent through their mother’s side of the family. 4  Also called: 5  agnatic. 6  agnatic descent. 7  agnation.
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- Wiktionary(1.00 / 1 vote)Rate this definition: 1  lineage(Noun) Descent in a line from a common progenitor; progeny; race; descending line of offspring or ascending line of parentage. 2  lineage(Noun) A number of lines of text in a column.
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stemming 1 A process for removing the inflexional, and sometimes derivational, affixes from words. ( rock climbing) The technique of bridging between two holds with hands and/or feet, applying forces to each in opposing directions in order to brace oneself in position.
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Lineal descendant In a legal procedure sense, lineal descent refers to the acquisition of estate by inheritance from grandparent to parent and parent to child, whereas collateral descent refers to the acquisition of estate or real property by inheritance from sibling to sibling, and cousin to cousin.
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descend synonym, descend definition | Thesaurus FORMAL (=go down) (Antonym: rise, ascend) Things are cooler and more damp as we descend to the cellar... V prep She descended one flight of stairs. V n 2 verb When a mood or atmosphere descendson a place or on the people there, it affects them by spreading among them.
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Morphological derivation From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. (Redirected from Derivation (linguistics)). In linguistics, morphological derivation is the process of forming a new word on the basis of an existing word, e.g. happiness and unhappy from the root word happy, or determination from determine.erivation that results in a noun may be called nominalization. This may involve the use of an affix (as with happy → happiness, employ → employee), or may occur via conversion (as with the derivation of the noun run from the verb to run).
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Defining the Genealogical Term, 'Removed' The genealogical term 'removed' means to move up or down generations. 1  First Cousin Once Removed. 2  Second Cousin Once Removed. 3  First Cousin Twice Removed. 4  Notice that the term 'removed' is just another way to state the number of generations moved either up or down between the cousins.
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- Working Papers. Ancestry refers to one’s ethnic origin or descent, roots, or heritage, or the place of birth of the person or the person’s parents or ancestors before their arrival in the United States. Ethnic identities may not represent geographic areas.
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descendant n. 1  1. One whose descent can be traced to a particular individual or group: a descendant of Queen Victoria; descendants of a prize-winning horse. 2  2. Something derived from a prototype or earlier form: Today's bicycles are descendants of the earlier velocipede.
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- exists and is an alternate of . Assent: In agreement with. Ascent: The act of moving upward, such as mountain climbing, or being promoted in one's job. Assent: In agreement with. <br /><br /> Ascent: The act of moving upward, such as mountain climbing, or being promoted in one's job.
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Another word for descend deteriorate. 1. To become lower in quality, character, or condition: atrophy, decline, degenerate, descend, retrograde, sink, worsen. Idioms: go bad, go to pot, go to seed, go to the dogs.
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Definitions &Translations In linguistics, derivation is the process of forming a new word on the basis of an existing word, e.g. happiness and unhappy from happy, or determination from determine. It often involves the addition of a morpheme in the form of an affix, such as-ness, un-and-ation in the preceding examples.erivation (Noun). The act of tracing origin or descent, as in grammar or genealogy; as, the derivation of a word from an Indo-European root. derivation (Noun). The state or method of being derived; the relation of origin when established or asserted.
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Definition of 'descend' descend (dɪsend ) Word forms: 3rd person singular present tense descends , present participle descending , past tense , past participle descended. 1. verb. If you descend or if you descend a staircase, you move downwards from a higher to a lower level. [formal] Things are cooler and more damp as we descend to the cellar.