ascender

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A person or thing that ascends.
  2. The portion of a lowercase letter that extends above the midline.
    — Catherine had a paperback called Graphology: The Mind in the Hand, which gave her all sorts of warnings about people’s tendencies and repressions (“Artist or Madman?” “Pet or Brute?”). “It's those enormous ascenders, darling,” she said: “I see a lot of ego.”
  3. A lowercase letter that has such a portion, such as d or h. uncommon
  4. a mechanical device used for ascending on a rope; ascendeur.

词形变化

ascenders plural

词源

Etymology tree
English ascend
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
Proto-Italic *-āzijos
Latin -āriusnom.
Latin -āriusbor.
Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz
Proto-West Germanic *-ārī
Old English -ere
Middle English -ere
English -er
English ascender
From ascend + -er.
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