noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
solo flight/voyage/ascent
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Ridgeway’s solo voyage across the Atlantic
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
steep
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It's a steep ascent but the compensation is a swift gaining of the ridge.
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From here to the top was a steep ascent of some five hundred yards, covered with large rocks and fallen timber.
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Follow the path west passing over a high stile and making a steep ascent to the summit of Y Garn.
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At the foot of the last steep ascent ..
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Not until I began to feel the horses straining up the steep ascent to our house did I open my eyes.
■ VERB
begin
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But instead, he heard them begin the ascent of the stairs.
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Three days after that, I learned that I could begin the ascent with my eyes open.
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Pat drives up to it and begins a vertical ascent .
make
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James made his last ascent in September 1816.
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Misery and misfortune are not misery and misfortune alone but the rungs of a ladder up which man makes his ascent .
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She made the ascent of Nevis a pleasure, but now I was grown up and Wendyless.
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Many people come to make the ascent , some to climb its tremendous cliffs, others merely to look at it.
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A night at Fort William gave me a long awaited opportunity of making the ascent .
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In the next five years he made about forty ascents as a professional balloonist.
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I finned madly for the surface, and was told off very severely for making an ascent like a pricked balloon.
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Tony Mitchell made a rapid second ascent to keep his reputation as the man who has done everything.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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He wrote a best-selling book about the first ascent of Everest.
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The final ascent of Kilimanjaro began at 5:00 a.m.
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The men began their final ascent at six o'clock the next day.
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Yeltsin's ascent to the presidency of Russia
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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I leant against a rock and watched Will choose his line of ascent .
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It's a steep ascent but the compensation is a swift gaining of the ridge.
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Some of the four million annual visitors seem to find the mere ascent insufficiently fulfilling.
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The ascent had taken 4 hours!
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Unfortunately this fell out on the third ascent .