noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a steep descent (= a steep journey, slope, or path downwards )
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the steep descent into the beautiful Farndale Valley
claim descent (= say that you are related to someone important who lived a long time ago )
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He claimed descent from Beethoven.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
long
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Then follows a long descent along a forest avenue to Loch Maree.
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The engines continue to burn and the shuttle starts a slow 2 minute long descent back to Earth.
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For the Conservatives it was the start of the long descent towards the agony of Black Wednesday.
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Our Czech hosts knew little about it, save that the approach was long and the descent intricate.
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They made a long , unhurried descent .
slow
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On the slow descent to Bristol airport a creature had attached itself to one of the wings.
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The tracks took him down a constant and slow descent then stopped at an old fence.
steep
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If the model is set up correctly, it should make a steep descent under full control.
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The Robinson 22 light helicopter was on an auto-gyration practice flight when the tail rotor touched the ground during a steep descent .
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The plane had gone into a steep descent and an explosion ripped the air.
■ NOUN
group
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None the less the fact remains that the presence of descent groups tells us nothing directly about domestic organization.
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Some primates live in patrilineal rather than matrilineal descent groups .
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There is a lot of evidence that such internal restrictions occur in all the accounts of descent groups amassed by anthropologists.
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This is a political system based on descent groups and the kinship and marriage ties that link them.
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In patrilineal descent groups , he argued, the individual family and private property were prominent and the communal principle already moribund.
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Confessional status had become the basis for an exclusive descent group .
■ VERB
begin
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He noticed the change of pitch in the engine noise and the slight tilt of the aircraft as it began its descent .
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Some one hit the down button and the Oval once again began its forty-foot descent into the earth.
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Slowly, he shook his head once or twice, and then began to make the descent .
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And waited in rage and self-recrimination as the elevator began its irrevocable descent ?
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The aircraft had begun its descent to Houston Intercontinental Airport when it disappeared from radar screens.
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He had two options, he thought, as the plane began the descent to Brussels.
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We inched up over the ridge and began our descent on to the high, tree-stippled plateau of far western Chihuahua.
continue
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Like the outbound leg, if you lose timing don't continue the descent .
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Without a working budget, or a viable rescue plan, the organization continued its disastrous descent into the financial sinkhole.
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Otherwise there have been two possibilities which effectively continue the lines of descent from Hegelian historicism and the history of science.
control
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The leak forced a controlled descent of the giant balloon about 250 kilometres to the west of the launch site.
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Moreover, he could control his descent , and could come down slower or quicker as he wished.
make
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The presidential plane was making its final descent .
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I lined up on the general area and made a gentle descent into the darkness.
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Slowly, he shook his head once or twice, and then began to make the descent .
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There was a fair wind spattering them with rain as they made their descent to the beach.
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If the model is set up correctly, it should make a steep descent under full control.
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He also made his first descent from a balloon by parachute.
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The Chief has just made the descent into blindness-Mariama is shocked when he doesn't respond to my outstretched hand.
start
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Since buying the cottage, house prices had started on a steady descent .
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The journey always starts with the endless descent to the street.
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He knew they'd be starting their descent in another five minutes.
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I started my descent about a mile away and a thousand feet high.
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Steadily it turned, gradually gaining speed when he started his descent and gravity took over.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a slippery descent
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Passengers said the cabin shook violently during the plane's descent .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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He had circulated a document which professed to trace his descent , through his father, from the Prophet.
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People in trance often begin their journeys by experiencing a descent through a downward tunnel.
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The engineers used the idea that moulds life itself: descent with modification.
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The journey always starts with the endless descent to the street.
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We took four hits, and immediately, we went into a rapid descent to elude the machine guns.