A sloping passage or incline, A way down, Lineage or hereditary derivation, An instance of descending, A drop to a lower status or condition, desc, That which is descended; descendants; issue, Transmission of an estate by inheritance, usually, but not necessarily, in the descending line; title to inherit an estate by reason of consanguinity, A step or remove downward in any scale of gradation; a degree in the scale of genealogy; a generation, Inclination downward; a descending way; inclined or sloping surface; declivity; slope; as, a steep descent, the act of changing your location in a downward direction a movement downward a downward slope or bend the kinship relation between an individual and the individual's progenitors, Derivation, as from an ancestor; procedure by generation; lineage; birth; extraction, A passing from a higher to a lower tone, Lowest place; extreme downward place, Acquisition of property through inheritance laws when there is no will (when a person dies Interstate), Incursion; sudden attack; especially, hostile invasion from sea; often followed by upon or on; as, to make a descent upon the enemy, The act of descending, or passing downward; change of place from higher to lower, Progress downward, as in station, virtue, as in station, virtue, and the like, from a higher to a lower state, from a higher to a lower state, from the more to the less important, from the better to the worse, etc, Acquisition of property through inheritance laws when there is no will (when a person dies intestate), the kinship relation between an individual and the individual's progenitors, the act of changing your location in a downward direction, a downward slope or bend, the descendants of one individual; "his entire lineage has been warriors", the distance between the bottom of the line of text and the baseline, or the distance from the baseline to the bottom of the lowest glyph in a font, properties attributable to your ancestry; "he comes from good origins", a movement downward, A descent is a movement from a higher to a lower level or position. the crash of an Airbus A300 on its descent into Kathmandu airport. ascent, A descent is a surface that slopes downwards, for example the side of a steep hill. On the descents, cyclists spin past cars, freewheeling downhill at tremendous speed. ascent, emphasis When you want to emphasize that a situation becomes very bad, you can talk about someone's or something's descent into that situation. his swift descent from respected academic to struggling small businessman. = decline, You use descent to talk about a person's family background, for example their nationality or social status. All the contributors were of African descent. = origin, ancestry. System of acknowledged social parentage whereby a person may claim kinship ties with another. Descent systems vary widely. The practical importance of descent comes from its use as a means for individuals to assert rights, duties, privileges, or status. Descent has special influence when rights to succession, inheritance, or residence follow kinship lines. One method of limiting the recognition of kinship is to emphasize the relationship through one parent only. Such unilineal kinship systems are of two main types patrilineal systems, in which the relationships through the father are emphasized; and matrilineal systems, in which maternal relationships are stressed. These systems differ radically from cognatic systems, in which everyone has similar obligations to, and expectations from, both paternal and maternal kin. The cognatic system is somewhat vague and tends to characterize the more industrialized countries, in which individual rights and duties are increasingly defined institutionally or legally, going down; downward slope; lineage; sudden attack; handing down of property; act of lowering oneself morally, In traditional typography the descent of a font was the distance from the bottom of a block of type to the baseline Its precise meaning in modern typograph seems to vary with different definers, As Determined by law, the person or persons in a line of secession who become owners of property after someone's death, The cumulative transmission of genetic information across generations, With respect to estates, succession to ownership by inheritance; the passage of estate, upon the death of the owner, to heirs by law, Coming down from above Example: A lion in descent == with its head toward the base point and its heels toward one of the corners of the chief, as if in the act of leaping down from some high place, Any passage of title to property upon the death of the owner to those heirs, related by blood or marriage, whom the law designates, The conveyance of property to those heirs of a deceased person as dictated by the laws of the jurisdiction when no will is left behind, going downward, as in: His descent from the airplane was much slower after he pulled the cord on his parachute, Acquisition of an estate by inheritance in which an heir succeeds to the property by operation of law, Acquiring property by inheritance when the deceased dies intestate, A trip down a bobsled track, A relationship defined by connection to an ancestor/ancestress through a culturally recognized sequence of parent-child links, downgoing, plural of descent,
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A sloping passage or incline - "The descent into the cavern was wet and slippery."
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A way down - "We had difficulty in finding the correct descent."
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Lineage or hereditary derivation - "Our guide was of Welsh descent."
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An instance of descending - "We climbed the mountain with difficulty, but the descent was easier."
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A drop to a lower status or condition - "After that, the holiday went into a steep descent."
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That which is descended; descendants; issue
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Transmission of an estate by inheritance, usually, but not necessarily, in the descending line; title to inherit an estate by reason of consanguinity
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A step or remove downward in any scale of gradation; a degree in the scale of genealogy; a generation
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Inclination downward; a descending way; inclined or sloping surface; declivity; slope; as, a steep descent
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the act of changing your location in a downward direction a movement downward a downward slope or bend the kinship relation between an individual and the individual's progenitors
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Derivation, as from an ancestor; procedure by generation; lineage; birth; extraction
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A passing from a higher to a lower tone
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Lowest place; extreme downward place
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Acquisition of property through inheritance laws when there is no will (when a person dies Interstate)
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Incursion; sudden attack; especially, hostile invasion from sea; often followed by upon or on; as, to make a descent upon the enemy
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The act of descending, or passing downward; change of place from higher to lower
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Progress downward, as in station, virtue, as in station, virtue, and the like, from a higher to a lower state, from a higher to a lower state, from the more to the less important, from the better to the worse, etc
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Acquisition of property through inheritance laws when there is no will (when a person dies intestate)
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the kinship relation between an individual and the individual's progenitors
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the act of changing your location in a downward direction
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a downward slope or bend
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the descendants of one individual; "his entire lineage has been warriors"
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the distance between the bottom of the line of text and the baseline, or the distance from the baseline to the bottom of the lowest glyph in a font
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properties attributable to your ancestry; "he comes from good origins"
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a movement downward
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A descent is a movement from a higher to a lower level or position. the crash of an Airbus A300 on its descent into Kathmandu airport. ascent
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A descent is a surface that slopes downwards, for example the side of a steep hill. On the descents, cyclists spin past cars, freewheeling downhill at tremendous speed. ascent
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emphasis When you want to emphasize that a situation becomes very bad, you can talk about someone's or something's descent into that situation. his swift descent from respected academic to struggling small businessman. = decline
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You use descent to talk about a person's family background, for example their nationality or social status. All the contributors were of African descent. = origin, ancestry. System of acknowledged social parentage whereby a person may claim kinship ties with another. Descent systems vary widely. The practical importance of descent comes from its use as a means for individuals to assert rights, duties, privileges, or status. Descent has special influence when rights to succession, inheritance, or residence follow kinship lines. One method of limiting the recognition of kinship is to emphasize the relationship through one parent only. Such unilineal kinship systems are of two main types patrilineal systems, in which the relationships through the father are emphasized; and matrilineal systems, in which maternal relationships are stressed. These systems differ radically from cognatic systems, in which everyone has similar obligations to, and expectations from, both paternal and maternal kin. The cognatic system is somewhat vague and tends to characterize the more industrialized countries, in which individual rights and duties are increasingly defined institutionally or legally
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going down; downward slope; lineage; sudden attack; handing down of property; act of lowering oneself morally isim
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In traditional typography the descent of a font was the distance from the bottom of a block of type to the baseline Its precise meaning in modern typograph seems to vary with different definers
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As Determined by law, the person or persons in a line of secession who become owners of property after someone's death
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The cumulative transmission of genetic information across generations
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With respect to estates, succession to ownership by inheritance; the passage of estate, upon the death of the owner, to heirs by law
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Coming down from above Example: A lion in descent == with its head toward the base point and its heels toward one of the corners of the chief, as if in the act of leaping down from some high place
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Any passage of title to property upon the death of the owner to those heirs, related by blood or marriage, whom the law designates
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The conveyance of property to those heirs of a deceased person as dictated by the laws of the jurisdiction when no will is left behind
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going downward, as in: His descent from the airplane was much slower after he pulled the cord on his parachute
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Acquisition of an estate by inheritance in which an heir succeeds to the property by operation of law
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Acquiring property by inheritance when the deceased dies intestate
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A trip down a bobsled track
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A relationship defined by connection to an ancestor/ancestress through a culturally recognized sequence of parent-child links
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