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Arresting
- verb -
- attract and fix; "His look caught her"; "She caught his eye"; "Catch the attention of the waiter"
- cause to stop; "Halt the engines"; "Arrest the progress"; "halt the presses"
- commanding attention; "an arresting drawing of people turning into animals"; "a sensational concert--one never to be forgotten"; "a stunning performance"
- take into custody; "the police nabbed the suspected criminals"
Articling
- verb - bind by a contract; especially for a training period
Asbestine
- - Of or pertaining to asbestus, or partaking of its nature; incombustible; asbestic.
Ascendant
- adjective - most powerful or important or influential; "the economically ascendant class"; "D-day is considered the dominating event of the war in Europe"
- position or state of being dominant or in control; "that idea was in the ascendant"
- someone from whom you are descended (but usually more remote than a grandparent)
- tending or directed upward; "rooted and ascendant strength like that of foliage"- John Ruskin
- The ascendant or rising sign is the astrological sign on the eastern horizon when the person was born. It signifies a person's physical appearance
Ascendent
- adjective - most powerful or important or influential; "the economically ascendant class"; "D-day is considered the dominating event of the war in Europe"
- position or state of being dominant or in control; "that idea was in the ascendant"
- someone from whom you are descended (but usually more remote than a grandparent)
- tending or directed upward; "rooted and ascendant strength like that of foliage"- John Ruskin
Ascending
- verb - appear to be moving upward, as by means of tendrils; "the vine climbed up the side of the house"
- become king or queen; "She ascended to the throne after the King's death"
- come up, of celestial bodies; "The sun also rises"; "The sun uprising sees the dusk night fled..."; "Jupiter ascends"
- go along towards (a river's) source; "The boat ascended the Delaware"
- go back in order of genealogical succession; "Inheritance may not ascend linearly"
- move to a better position in life or to a better job; "She ascended from a life of poverty to one of great
- moving or going or growing upward; "the ascending plane"; "the ascending staircase"; "the ascending stems of chickweed"
- slope upwards; "The path ascended to the top of the hill"
- the act of changing location in an upward direction
- to climb
- travel up, "We ascended the mountain"; "go up a ladder"; "The mountaineers slowly ascended the steep slope"
Ascessant
- - See Acescency, Acescent.
Ascidians
- noun - minute sedentary marine invertebrate having a saclike body with siphons through which water enters and leaves
Ascribing
- verb - attribute or credit to; "We attributed this quotation to Shakespeare"; "People impute great cleverness to cats"