descendとは

発音

• IPA^(key): /dɪˈsɛnd/
• ハイフネーション (米国発音): de‧scend; (英国発音): des‧cend
• 韻: -ɛnd

動詞

descend (三人称単数 現在形 descends, 現在分詞 descending, 過去形および過去分詞形 descended)

1. (intransitive) 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
   • 1611, King James Version, Matthew vii. 25.

   The rain descended, and the floods came.

   We will here descend to matters of later date. (Can we date this quote by Fuller?)

2. (intransitive, poetic) To enter mentally; to retire.
   • 1671, John Milton, “Book the Second”, in Paradise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes, London: Printed by J. M[acock] for John Starkey […], OCLC 228732398:

     [He] with holiest meditations fed, Into himself descended.

3. (intransitive, with on または upon) To make an attack, or incursion, as if from a vantage ground; to come suddenly and with violence.

   And on the suitors let thy wrath descend. (Can we date this quote by Alexander Pope?)

4. (intransitive) To come down to a lower, less fortunate, humbler, less virtuous, or worse, state or station; to lower or abase oneself

   he descended from his high estate

5. (intransitive) To pass from the more general or important to the particular or less important matters to be considered.
6. (intransitive) 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.

   the beggar may descend from a prince

   a crown descends to the heir

7. (intransitive, astronomy) To move toward the south, or to the southward.
8. (intransitive, music) To fall in pitch; to pass from a higher to a lower tone.
9. (transitive) To go down upon or along; to pass from a higher to a lower part of

   they descended the river in boats; to descend a ladder

   But never tears his cheek descended. (Can we date this quote by Byron?)

同意語

• go down

反意語

• ascend
• go up

派生語

• descender

関連する語

• descent

アナグラム

• scended