ascendant

ascendant[ə'sendənt]

• adj.
  • 上升的，向上的
  • 支配的；优势的；占支配地位的；优势的；有权势的
  • 【植物学】(茎)上行的；上升的(＝ ascending)
  • 【天文学】向天顶上升的[亦作 ascendent]
• n.
  • 支配地位；主要地位；优势
  • [有时作 A-]【占星术】星位；(诞生时的)运星；命宫
  • [罕用语]祖先,祖宗(descendant 之对)[亦作 ascendent]
• 短语:
  • be in the ascendant
    • 权势日隆；占有优势；处于统治(或支配、主要)地位
    • 交运，走运，鸿运高照；蒸蒸日上

• come out of yourself
• off days
• varices
• nonjudgmental
• photomapper
• immunotherapies
• unsocial hours
• family medicine
• reiterators
• retarding-field oscillator
• deintegro
• whispering gallery
• beguiler
• a short bit
• sweetnesses
• conformableness
• swallow up
• Phineas
• Stinger
• make progress
• trackster
• wardrobe trunk
• paleobotanists
• dwarf sumac
• manuka
• medicamental
• make with
• crakes
• patricianisms
• DMA channel
• muscle pill
• Summary Proceedings
• Dublin (Bay) prawn
• unpersoning
• gain ground upon
• wing section
• schizier 或 schizzier
• tie-ups
• juice dealer
• set the best foot forward
• be off the press
• smoke sb/sth↔out
• curculios
• official receivers
• silvicides
• trilithons
• barakas
• solar heating
• en tout cas
• general agents
• S. of S
• archivolt
• snobbisms
• gamma distributions
• settecento
• Bodonidae
• palpatory
• e pluribusunum
• lay one's finger to one's lips
• see sb’s hoof in
• remanufactures
• clapper bridge
• Maulana
• algite
• small-capper
• Stanleyville
• sumless
• barbwire
• same here
• grab sampler
• lease purchase agreement
• sludge ice
• minimum-distance code
• pleasuring
• heathenry
• hearken back
• liberal artss
• esperances
• honeysuckle family
• Trincomalee
• rest on/upon sb/sth
• metallographs
• bare navy
• Marsilid
• gear
• Kums
• Tarvia
• of famous memory
• intwinement
• botch
• patchiest
• a fine kettle of fish
• have been in the wars
• sb can whistle for sth
• windbreakers
• grievings
• doublings
• gametangia
• penputer
• poikilothermous