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descent
  1. An instance of descending.
  2. A way down.
  3. A sloping passage or incline.
  4. Lineage or hereditary derivation.
  5. A drop to a lower status or condition; decline. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
  6. (topology) A particular extension of the idea of gluing. See Descent (mathematics).
  7. Synonyms:
  8. Examples:
    1. “Arthur's Pass is 920 metres above sea level, and there is a steep descent to Otira in the west.”
      “It is the time of fleeting sunlight, of crisper breeze, and the soft, lilting descent of leaves as they give up the battle to hold on.”
      “We now commenced our descent towards Courmayeur. Our way lay down a Long precipice of loose rocks and stones that was, fortunately, free from snow.”
descendant
  1. (literally) One who is the progeny of a specified person, at any distance of time or through any number of generations.
  2. (figuratively) A thing that derives directly from a given precursor or source.
  3. (biology) A later evolutionary type.
  4. (linguistics) A language that is descended from another.
  5. (linguistics) A word or form in one language that is descended from a counterpart in an ancestor language.
  6. Synonyms:
  7. Examples:
    1. “Most biologists consider it the direct descendant of the ancestor of the domesticated two-humped species.”
descender
  1. A person or thing that descends.
  2. (typography) The part of a lowercase letter that is drawn below the bottom of lowercase letters, such as the tail of the letters g, p, and q.
  3. (cycling) A cyclist who excels at fast descents.
  4. A belay device used in rock climbing
  5. Examples:
    1. “Within each triplet set, the items were matched for rhyme and whether the initial letter was an ascender, descender, or x-height.”
      “The alpine slalom inspired dual descender at Sherwood Pines is not for the faint hearted!”
      “Measuring a lower case letter that has an ascender or descender is equivalent to measuring an upper-case letter.”
descension
  1. (now rare) Descent; the act of descending. [from 15th c.]
  2. (astronomy) The descent below the horizon of a celestial body. [16th-19th c.]
  3. Examples:
    1. “The senator's own descension into the gutter has also taken a toll on his assistant's statesmanlike image.”
      “We must complete the chilling task of picturing how slow and tortuous his descension into psychosis really was.”
      “Good and earned leadership on a great team almost makes descension impossible.”
descendancy
  1. (uncountable) The quality or condition of being a descendant.
  2. (countable) Descendants considered collectively.
  3. Examples:
    1. “Members assigned to our databank always stand ready to answer requests leading to the establishment of the caller's descendancy chart.”
      “But we begin with Louie Gonnie, an artist who, in memory of those Native Americans who survived, describes his descendancy as from the Zuni people, and his 4 Peyote Songs.”
      “The work was not yet finished when, in September 1499, the castle was host to King Louis XII of France while guiding his army towards Milan in order to claim the duchy by right of his descendancy from the Visconti family.”
descendeur
  1. A piece of metal around which a rope is passed in order to slow descent when abseiling
descendibility
  1. (law) The characteristic of being descendible; inheritability by an heir.
descendency
  1. The property of descendence.
  2. Examples:
    1. “This is what the biological and spiritual descendency of Avraham is all about.”
      “The databases PsycINFO and MedLine were searched, inclusion criteria applied to resulting hits, and descendency and ancestry approaches applied to the selected publications.”
      “The tool performs a descendency check to ensure the object is in fact a descendant before allowing the operation to proceed.”
descendent
descendence
  1. The act of descending.
descending
descendibilities
  1. plural of descendibility
descendents
  1. Misspelling of descendants.
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “This branch of the family are the descendents of white as well as black Antiguans.”
      “Our view of citizenship must be that of respect for the pain of the victims, their families and their descendents.”
      “This sire has passed on very valuable, uniform traits to his descendents and therefore deserves the breeders' interests.”
descendences
  1. plural of descendence
descendancies
  1. plural of descendancy
descendants
  1. plural of descendant
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Their wanderings ceased when they reached the beautiful mountain home where their descendants live today.”
      “Caucasians, mainly descendants of Spaniards, constitute about 20 percent of the population.”
      “They are the descendants of an ancient population of fawn or brown-colored cattle which originally came from Asia.”
descendings
  1. plural of descending
descendeurs
  1. plural of descendeur
descensions
  1. plural of descension
descenders
  1. plural of descender
  2. Examples:
    1. “Text set solid appears cramped, with ascenders almost touching descenders from the previous line.”
      “The alphabets, be it the ascenders, descenders or those with body should be properly shaped.”
      “Well, I like ITC Garmond because of the large x-height and shortened ascenders and descenders.”
descents
  1. plural of descent
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Orb-weaving spiders use this kind of silk like Spider-Man, as a dragline on which to make ascents and descents.”
      “These guys who were out there doing really serious ski descents were also world-class mountaineers, while I was just a hiker scrambler.”
      “Brian Fisher turned bounding leaps into corkscrewing descents and ended them in a perfect Fred Astaire pose.”
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