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descend is a verb:
- To pass from a higher to a lower place; to move downwards; to come or go down in any way, as by falling, flowing, walking, etc.; to plunge; to fall; to incline downward
"The rain descended, and the floods came. Matthew vii. 25." - To enter mentally; to retire. [Poetic]
"[He] with holiest meditations fed, Into himself descended. John Milton." - To make an attack, or incursion, as if from a vantage ground; to come suddenly and with violence; -- with on or upon.
"And on the suitors let thy wrath descend. Alexander Pope." - To come down to a lower, less fortunate, humbler, less virtuous, or worse, state or station; to lower or abase one's self; as, he descended from his high estate.
- To pass from the more general or important to the particular or less important matters to be considered.
- To come down, as from a source, original, or stock; to be derived; to proceed by generation or by transmission; to fall or pass by inheritance; as, the beggar may descend from a prince; a crown descends to the heir.
- To move toward the south, or to the southward.
- To fall in pitch; to pass from a higher to a lower tone.
- To go down upon or along; to pass from a higher to a lower part of; as, they descended the river in boats; to descend a ladder.
"But never tears his cheek descended. Byron."
Verbs are action words and state of being words. Examples of action words are: ran, attacking, dreamed. Examples of "state of being" words are: is, was, be. Learn more →
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What type of word is descend?
- Verb usage: The rain descended, and the floods came. Matthew vii. 25.
- Verb usage: We will here descend to matters of later date. Fuller.
- Verb usage: [He] with holiest meditations fed, Into himself descended. John Milton.
- Verb usage: And on the suitors let thy wrath descend. Alexander Pope.
- Verb usage: But never tears his cheek descended. Byron.
Unfortunately, with the current database that runs this site, I don't have data about which senses of descend are used most commonly. I've got ideas about how to fix this but will need to find a source of "sense" frequencies. Hopefully there's enough info above to help you understand the part of speech of descend, and guess at its most common usage.
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For those interested in a little info about this site: it's a side project that I developed while working on Describing Words and Related Words. Both of those projects are based around words, but have much grander goals. I had an idea for a website that simply explains the word types of the words that you search for - just like a dictionary, but focussed on the part of speech of the words. And since I already had a lot of the infrastructure in place from the other two sites, I figured it wouldn't be too much more work to get this up and running.
The dictionary is based on the amazing Wiktionary project by wikimedia. I initially started with WordNet, but then realised that it was missing many types of words/lemma (determiners, pronouns, abbreviations, and many more). This caused me to investigate the 1913 edition of Websters Dictionary - which is now in the public domain. However, after a day's work wrangling it into a database I realised that there were far too many errors (especially with the part-of-speech tagging) for it to be viable for Word Type.
Finally, I went back to Wiktionary - which I already knew about, but had been avoiding because it's not properly structured for parsing. That's when I stumbled across the UBY project - an amazing project which needs more recognition. The researchers have parsed the whole of Wiktionary and other sources, and compiled everything into a single unified resource. I simply extracted the Wiktionary entries and threw them into this interface! So it took a little more work than expected, but I'm happy I kept at it after the first couple of blunders.
Special thanks to the contributors of the open-source code that was used in this project: the UBY project (mentioned above), @mongodb and express.js.
Currently, this is based on a version of wiktionary which is a few years old. I plan to update it to a newer version soon and that update should bring in a bunch of new word senses for many words (or more accurately, lemma).
