Acclivity: alternatives and connections

To deviate from a line, direction, or course, toward an object; to lean; to tend; as, converging lines incline toward each other; a road inclines to…

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The margin, edge, verge, or border of a surface; especially (when the thing spoken of is somewhat oblong in shape), one of the longer edges as distin…

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An oblique direction; a line or direction including from a horizontal line or direction; also, sometimes, an inclination, as of one line or surface t…

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Upwards on, or as on, a hillside; as, to walk uphill.

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To move upward; to mount; to go up; to rise; -- opposed to descend.

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To move upward; to mount; to go up; to rise; -- opposed to descend.

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The act of rising; motion upward; rise; a mounting upward; as, he made a tedious ascent; the ascent of vapors from the earth.

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To ascend or mount laboriously, esp. by use of the hands and feet.

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To cause to rise; to bring from a lower to a higher place; to lift upward; to elevate; to heave; as, to raise a stone or weight.

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To move from a lower position to a higher; to ascend; to mount up. Specifically: -- (a) To go upward by walking, climbing, flying, or any other volun…

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The act or state of bending downward; inclination; as, declination of the head.

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The act or state of bending downward; inclination; as, declination of the head.

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