descent

«descent» in Mova's school dictionary: a way or act of going down, like going down a hill… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a descent, descents; also uncountable)

meaning for a pupil

1) A descent is a way or act of going down, like going down a hill, stairs or from the sky. tree →

2) Descent means your family background, the people and places your family comes from. tree →

3) A descent can be a slope that goes downward. tree →

sense in the lessons

In maths and geography descent is about going down: a plane begins its descent, a climber's descent of a mountain; height goes down. In history and social studies descent means family origin. Phrases: begin the descent, of Irish descent, a steep descent, descent from.

examples

• The plane began its descent to the airport. tree →
• The climbers made a slow descent down the icy mountain. tree →
• The path has a steep descent to the beach. tree →
• She is of Italian descent. tree →
• The balloon's descent took ten minutes. tree →
• On the descent the bus went very slowly. tree →
• In later times the noblest Theban families proudly claimed their descent from these mighty earth-born warriors. tree →

note

Do not confuse with "decent" (good enough, polite) or "dissent" (disagreeing). Verb: descend; opposite: ascent. In maths: a descent from 800 m to 300 m is a drop of 500 m; if it took 10 minutes, the height fell 50 m per minute.

In the corpora

• Red-green colour blindness affects about 1 in 12 men of European descent.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «descent» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.