Synonyms: rise, ascending, ascension, ascent
Definition: the act of changing location in an upward direction
Similar words: motion, move, movement
Definition: the act of changing location from one place to another
Usage: police controlled the motion of the crowd; the movement of people from the farms to the cities; his move put him directly in my path
Synonyms: ascending
Definition: moving or going or growing upward
Usage: the ascending plane; the ascending staircase; the ascending stems of chickweed
Similar words: acclivitous, uphill, rising
Definition: sloping upward
Similar words: ascendant, ascendent, ascensive
Definition: tending or directed upward
Usage: rooted and ascendant strength like that of foliage- John Ruskin
Similar words: assurgent
Definition: growing or extending upward
Usage: an assurgent stem or leaf
Similar words: assurgent
Definition: rising from the sea
Usage: a seahorse assurgent
Similar words: scandent
Definition: used especially of plants; having a tendency to climb
Usage: plants of a creeping or scandent nature
Similar words: highflying
Definition: moving upward or along at a considerable height
Usage: some highflying fighter pilot fired a cannon shell into it
Definition: extending or moving toward a higher place
Usage: the up staircase; a general upward movement of fish