descent
US: /dɪˈsɛnt/
UK: /dɪsˈɛnt/
UK: /dɪsˈɛnt/
English Vietnamese dictionary
descent /di'sent/
- danh từ
- sự xuống
- to make a parachute descent: nhảy dù xuống
- sự hạ thấp xuống (độ nhiệt...)
- sự dốc xuống; con đường dốc
- nguồn gốc, dòng dõi; thế hệ, đời
- to be of good descents: nhiều thế hệ liên tiếp
- sự truyền lại; sự để lại (tài sản...)
- (quân sự) cuộc tấn công bất ngờ, cuộc đột kích (từ đường biển vào)
- sự sa sút, sự suy sụp, sự xuống dốc
- sự xuống
Advanced English dictionary
+ noun
1 [C, usually sing.] an action of coming or going down: The plane began its descent to Heathrow. + (figurative) the country's swift descent into anarchy
Antonym: ASCENT
2 [C] a slope going downwards: There is a gradual descent to the sea.
Antonym: ASCENT
3 [U] (from sb) a person's family origins
Synonym: ANCESTRY
to be of Scottish descent + He traces his line of descent from the Stuart kings.
Collocation dictionary
1 movement down
ADJ.
rapid, swift | slow | steep | gentle, gradual | difficult, easy
They began the difficult descent of the mountain's south west face.
| final
The plane was making its final descent so we had to fasten our seat belts.
VERB + DESCENT
make
PREP.
on/during a/the ~
The engines failed on the plane's descent to Orly.
| ~ down
I made a slow and painful descent down the stairs.
| ~ from
the descent from the top of the mountain
| ~ into
(figurative) his descent into alcoholism
| ~ to
The plane began its gentle descent to Heathrow.
PHRASES
a rate of descent
We slowed the balloon's rate of descent.
2 surface that goes downwards
ADJ.
gentle | steep
3 family origins
ADJ.
direct, lineal
She claims direct descent from Queen Victoria.
| common
Most European languages have a common descent.
| mixed | Chinese, Irish, etc.
VERB + DESCENT
claim, have | trace | share
groups sharing common descent
PREP.
by ~
She is Hungarian by descent.
| ~ from
He claims to have traced descent from Christopher Columbus.
PHRASES
a line of descent
Humans and other apes followed separate lines of descent from a common ancestor.
| of Mexican, Scottish, etc. descent
She is of mixed European and African descent.
Concise English dictionary
descentsdɪ'sent
noun
+a movement downward
+properties attributable to your ancestry
+the act of changing your location in a downward direction
+the kinship relation between an individual and the individual's progenitors
+a downward slope or bend
+the descendants of one individual
