descend  /dɪs'ɛnd/

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資料來源(1): pydict data [pydict]

  descend
  (vi.)下降,傳下,遺傳;屈尊,降格,墮落

資料來源(2): Taiwan MOE computer dictionary [moecomp]

  descend
  下降

資料來源(3): Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]

  Descend \De*scend"\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Descended}; p. pr. &
     vb. n. {Descending}.] [F. descendre, L. descendere,
     descensum; de- + scandere to climb. See {Scan}.]
     1. 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 opposite of ascend.
  
              The rain descended, and the floods came. --Matt.
                                                    vii. 25.
  
              We will here descend to matters of later date.
                                                    --Fuller.
  
     2. To enter mentally; to retire. [Poetic]
  
              [He] with holiest meditations fed, Into himself
              descended.                            --Milton.
  
     3. 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. --Pope.
  
     4. 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.
  
     5. To pass from the more general or important to the
        particular or less important matters to be considered.
  
     6. 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.
  
     7. (Anat.) To move toward the south, or to the southward.
  
     8. (Mus.) To fall in pitch; to pass from a higher to a lower
        tone.

資料來源(4): Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]

  Descend \De*scend"\, v. t.
     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.

資料來源(5): WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]

  descend
       v 1: move downward and lower, but not necessarily all the way;
            "The temperature is going down"; "The barometer is
            falling"; "The curtain fell on the diva"; "Her hand went
            up and then fell again" [syn: {fall}, {go down}, {come
            down}] [ant: {rise}, {ascend}]
       2: come from; be connected by a relationship of blood, for
          example; "She was descended from an old Italian noble
          family"; "he comes from humble origins" [syn: {derive}, {come}]
       3: do something that one considers to be below one's dignity
          [syn: {condescend}, {deign}]
       4: come as if by falling; "Night fell"; "Silence fell" [syn: {fall},
           {settle}]