Word Finder - descend

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To pass from a higher to a lower place; to move downwards; to come or go down in any way, for example by falling, flowing, walking, climbing etc.

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The rain descended, and the floods came.

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To enter mentally; to retire.

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(with on or upon) To make an attack, or incursion, as if from a vantage ground; to come suddenly and with violence.

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And on the suitors let thy wrath descend.

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To come down to a lower, less fortunate, humbler, less virtuous, or worse, state or rank; to lower or abase oneself

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he descended from his high estate

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To pass from the more general or important to the specific or less important matters to be considered.

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To come down, as from a source, original, or stock

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To be derived (from)

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To proceed by generation or by transmission; to happen by inheritance.

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A crown descends to the heir.

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To move toward the south, or to the southward.

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To fall in pitch; to pass from a higher to a lower tone.

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To go down upon or along; to pass from a higher to a lower part of

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they descended the river in boats; to descend a ladder

They worked on him until she felt the helo descend and finally reach the ground.

That could only descend in the family to which he had ceased to belong.

In Europe the glaciers descend between 3000 and 5000 ft.

The testes descend into a scrotum.

Floods are of common occurrence, and descend very suddenly.

In front of the wall lies a deep trench, into which several passages descend, as at the nearly contemporary fort of Euryelus above Syracuse (q.v.).

The confessions of sin which he introduced descend to minute ritual details and rise to the most exalted aspects of social and spiritual life.

Mr Jones felt a frisson of fear descend his spine.

Donnie clung to his mother, eyes wide, pointing to a climber about to descend from the corner of the bridge.

In this manner plants whose roots descend but a little way in the ground are enabled to draw on deep supplies.

Above that point there is no navigation except by the native rafts (kellek), which descend the river and are broken up on arrival at their point of destination.

Mankind is now made to descend from the three sons of Noah.

Steps lead from this temple to an enclosed flight of stairs, which in the cold season descend to the water, but in the rains are covered almost to the top. This is the ghat where some 600 helpless people were slain, in spite of a promise of safe-conduct from the Nana.

Here the streams that drain the higher areas descend to the plains through narrow canyons in the mountain border, impassable for ordinary roads and difficult of entrance even by railways; a well-known example is the gorge of Clear Creek east of the Georgetown mining district.

It is estimated that there are in all over nine hundred glaciers in this section of the range, and although they often rival those of the Alps in size, they do not descend generally to such low altitudes as the latter.

On some of these peaks again there is a considerable amount of glaciation, more particularly on the slopes of Diklos-mta, where the glaciers descend to 7700 ft.

The main ridge runs north and south along the line of the greatest diameter, and from the heights descend many torrents, the v% hole island being well watered.

Its high crystalline rocks, covered with sedimentary formations, descend abruptly towards the delta, but more gradually towards the south, where the Bulgarian steppes encroach upon Rumanian soil.

After 1830, however, many highways were opened, these being usually excellent among the mountains but deteriorating as they descend into the lowlands, where stone is dear.

Rising in the Warm Bokkeveld, it pierces the mountains by Mitchell's Pass, flows by the picturesque towns of Ceres and Worcester, and receives, beyond the last-named place, the waters which descend from the famous Hex River Pass.

For with unstable balances, although the smallest excess of weight in the goods-pan will cause it to descend till it is brought up by its stop, yet being in this position, a very much greater weight than the difference which brought it there will be required in the weights-pan to enable it to mount again.

Using the symbols of the diagram, it can be shown that the effect of placing the weight W at E instead of F is to cause the end of the beam to descend, as if under the action of an additional weight, w, at F such that w Wa(ml - l +tan 0)/h.

If the free end of the rope is released the weight will descend, and the tackle is then said to overhaul.

The worm is of great pitch, so that if the effort were removed the weight would descend, did not the axial end thrust of the worm shaft throw into action a friction brake H, the resistance of which prevents motion downwards.

As is usually the case with the trap formation, they descend to the plains in terraces with abrupt fronts.

During the rains they are formidable torrents, but with the return of the fair weather they dwindle away, and during the hot season, with a few exceptions, they almost dry up. Clear and rapid as they descend the hills, on reaching the lowlands of the Konkan they become muddy and brackish creeks.

The house of Mendoza claimed to descend from the lords of Llodio in Alava, and to have been settled in Old Castile, in the 11th century.

From these itinerant commissioners (justices in eyre) descend the modern justices of assize.

The reason that Langton did not descend to details was that the king had already conceded the right of free canonical election and the other claims of the clerical order in a separate charter, so that there was no need to discuss them at length.

When Thomas, Lord Berkeley, died in 1417, it might have been presumed that his dignity would descend to his heir, the countess of Warwick.

Just below this the mountains close in on either side of the Maranon, forming narrows or pongos for a length of 35 m., where, besides numerous whirlpools, there are no less than thirty-five formidable rapids, the series concluding with three cataracts just before reaching the river Imasa or Chunchunga, near the mouth of which La Condamine embarked in the t8th century to descend the Amazon.

Here the general level of the country begins to decrease in elevation, with only a few mountain spurs, which from time to time push as far as the river and form pongos of minor importance and less dangerous to descend.

It is formed from a multitude of water-courses which descend the slopes of the Ecuadorian Andes south of the gigantic volcano of Sangay; but it soon reaches the plain, which commences where it receives its Cusulima branch.

The profusion of turrets, pinnacles, and dormer windows which decorates the roof of this, the chief portion of the château, constitutes the main feature of the exterior, while in the interior are a well-preserved chapel of the 16th century and a famous double staircase, the construction of which permits two people to ascend and descend respectively without seeing one another.

A widow is entitled to a dower in one-third of her husband's real estate, and a widower is life tenant by courtesy of all the real estate of which his wife died seized and not disposed of by her last will, unless she leaves issue by a former husband, to whom the estate might descend, in which case her estate passes immediately to such issue.

It was this motive which first induced the Thessalians to leave their home in Epirus and descend into this district, and from this movement arose the expulsion of the Boeotians from Arne, and their settlement in the country subsequently called Boeotia; while another wave of the same tide drove the Dorians also southward, whose migrations changed the face of the Peloponnese.

Among the new truths detected by him was the valuable mechanical principle that if any number of bodies be so connected that, by their motion, their centre of gravity can neither ascend nor descend, then those bodies are in equilibrium.

In the north, and in the deep valleys through which the streams descend to the plain, there are extensive forests of oak, birch and beech, and in the south, of fir and larch.

The eastern rivers cut their way through the ramparts of the high land by magnificent gorges amidst dense forest, and descend by a succession of rapids and cataracts.

When they descend to the ground they sit upright, and move about by jumping with their hind-legs like jerboas.

They denied the particular providence of God, because knowledge in the divine sphere did not descend to singulars.

Paranoia prompted us to post Martha in the lobby and Quinn in the hall; ready to warn us if storm trooper descend like Custer's army.

It is Saturday night, the worst time of the week, when the miners descend from the mountains, all afrenzy with their lust for drink and acts of the flesh.

There were many men ready on the last call for volunteers to descend the shaft.

In the turbulent middle section, the vocal lines, mostly in unison, descend and rise in increasing agitation.

If the laws broke down, the whole place would descend into utter carnage, so the Japanese are keen to obey the laws.

It might be a better alternative to descend the chimney behind the pinnacle.

On the other hand to rely on such an outcome is to descend headlong into parliamentary cretinism.

He will descend onto a white minaret set in the eastern part of Damascus.

She opened the wine cellar and shivered at the cool breeze but forced herself to descend.