DESCEND  下

WALK OR MOVE DOWNWARDS.
GO DOWNCOME DOWNDROPFALLSINKDIVEPLUMMETPLUNGENOSEDIVECLIMB DOWNGO DOWNCOME DOWN
Antonym
  • ASCENDWALK to REACH a MORE HIGH PLACE. 
    • RISEMOVE UP.
      Hypernym
      • WALKMOVE across the FLOOR>ground USING one's LEGS.
        • MOVECHANGE PLACE OR SITUATION.
          • CHANGEEVENT involving two MOMENTS t1 and t2, such that a THING at the MOMENT t1 is DIFFERENT FROM that THING at the MOMENT t2.
            • EVENTREALITY that ARISES in TIME....
      See also
      • FALLMOVE DOWN PULLED by the FORCE of one's WEIGHT.
        • FALLMOVE DOWN PULLED by the FORCE of one's WEIGHT.
          Old Chinese Criteria
          1. The current word for descending is jiàng 降 (ant. shēng 升 "ascend", dēng 登 "ascend").

          2. Xià 下 (ant. shàng 上 "ascend") sometimes refers colourlessly to something moving downwards.

          Modern Chinese Criteria
          下

          降

          下來

          下降

          下去

          從天而降

          rough draft to BEGIN TO identify synonym group members for analysis, based on CL etc. 18.11.2003. CH ／

          • Bibliographisches Handbuch zur Sprachinhaltsforschung. Teil II. Systematischer Teil. B. Ordnung nach Sinnbezirken (mit einem alphabetischen Begriffsschluessel): Der Mensch und seine Welt im Spiegel der Sprachforschung ( FRANKE 1989) p. 13B

            ABSITZEN(ABSTEIGEN)

          • Encyclopedia of Comparative Iconography ( ROBERTS 1998) p. 73

          Words

          下  xià OC: ɢraas MC: ɦɣɛ 47 Attributions

          Xià 下 (ant. shàng 上 "ascend") sometimes refers colourlessly to something moving downwards.

            Syntactic words
          • vifigurativego down (figuratively)
          • viprocessgo down; move down; flow downwards
          • vt(oN)go down, get down (from a contextually determinate place); dismount from a carriage
          • vt(oN.)-Vgo down to the contextually determinate place to V
          • vtoNdescend from
          • vtoNcausativelet somebody or something descend, cause something to come down; cause someone to dismount
          • vtoNN=aimdescend to; descend intoCH
          降  jiàng OC: kruums MC: kɣɔŋ 29 Attributions

          The current word for descending is jiàng 降 (ant. shēng 升 "ascend", dēng 登 "ascend").

            Word relations
          • Ant: 登/ASCEND Dēng 登 refer to one entering a vehicle or moving onto a higher surface of any kind, typically (but not always) in a dignified manner. [ELEVATED!]; [[CURRENT]]
          • Ant: 上/ASCEND Shàng 上 (ant. xià 下 "descend"), on the basis of the general meaning "above", comes to refer to the moving to the position on top of or above something else. [GENERAL]; [[CURRENT]], [[DERIVED]]
          • Ant: 騰/FLY Téng 騰 refers to the soaring high up into the sky, typically of big and impressive creatures like birds and dragons.
          • Ant: 陟/ASCEND Zhì 陟 "poetic: scale a mountain" (ant. jiàng 降"descend") are rare archaising words with highly restricted usage. [ARCHAIC], [SPECIFIC]; [[RARE]]
          • Assoc: 集/SIT Jí 集 refers to birds settling in a certain place, often but not always in a flock.

            Syntactic words
          • vadNdescending
          • viactdescend, go down
          • viprocessgo down
          • vt+prep+Ndescend on, alight on (a tree etc)
          • vt+prep+Nfigurativedescend from> be issued from, issue from a higher position
          • vtoNcausativecause to descend
          • vtoNcausativecause to go down> lower (one's aspirations etc)
          • vtoNextentdescend>decline by the extent N
          • vtoNN=extentdescend (e. g. by such and such a number of steps
          • vtoNobject=goaldescend to (a place)
          • vtoNobject=sourceget down from, go down from
          下降  xià jiàng OC: ɢraaʔ kruums MC: ɦɣɛ kɣɔŋ 2 Attributions
            Syntactic words
          • VPiprocessdescend (from Heaven)
          下至  xià zhì OC: ɢraas kljiɡs MC: ɦɣɛ tɕi 1 Attribution
            Syntactic words
          • VPt0oN1.postN2figurativedescend and reach > down until, reaching to, until
          墮  duò MC: dwaX OC: ɡ-loolʔCH 1 Attribution
            Syntactic words
          • vtoNdescend from NCH
          下抵  xià dǐ MC: haeX tejX OC: ɢraaʔ tiilʔCH 1 Attribution
            Syntactic words
          • VPtoNdescend fromCH
          頹  dù 1 Attribution
            Syntactic words
          • vifigurativefallingCH
          下之  xià zhī MC: haeH tsyi OC: ɢraas kljɯCH 1 Attribution
            Syntactic words
          • VPtoNdescend toCH
          穨  tuí OC: ɡ-luul MC: duo̝i 0 Attributions
            Syntactic words
          • vichangego down; decend; decline (the sun)
          下向  xià xiàng OC: ɢraaʔ qhaŋs MC: ɦɣɛ hi̯ɐŋ 0 Attributions
            Syntactic words
          • VPtoNresultativemove down so as to approach> move down towards

          Existing SW for

          Here are Syntactic Words already defined in the database: