"descent" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

descent sustantivo

sustantivo + descent

Kolokacji: 8

Puerto Rican descent • parachute descent • emergency descent • Huguenot descent • Latino descent • ...

descent + sustantivo

Kolokacji: 9

descent rate • descent group • descent module • descent stage • descent route • ...

Grup znaczeniowych: 3

(1) rate, group

Kolokacji: 2

(2) module, route, path, line

Kolokacji: 4

1. descent module = moduł zejścia descent module

2. descent route = trasa zejścia descent route

3. descent path = droga pochyłości descent path

4. descent line = linia zejścia descent line

In particular, their "supreme rank [comes] from the conjunction of a number of senior descent lines from founding ancestors, and ultimately from the gods".
The paternal descent lines were colaterally ranked according to the birth of their founders, and were thus considered senior and junior to each other.
Masalai may be associated with descent lines, moieties, hamlets, villages.
These descent lines included not only mythical figures but also stretches of outright fiction, much of which is still widely perpetuated today.
The Kurahaupō was an important migration vessel of the Māori, and descent lines are still held strong by many tribal groupings.
He knew that Giordino had enough air left for one more 360-degree sweep around the descent line tied to a buoy about thirty yards from the boat.
He swam out to the buoy and started down the descent line.
Then he took the distance line Giordino had attached to the descent line by a clip and moved out along the radius.
That completes this descent line" (ibid).
Gammage was old"; the very descent lines he had stated made him older than any Elder Furtig had ever known.

(3) stage, altitude, engine

Kolokacji: 3

descent + verbo

Kolokacji: 5

descent begins • descent takes • descent continues • descent slows • descent follows

verbo + descent

Kolokacji: 16

claim descent • begin one's descent • trace one's descent • make a descent • continue one's descent • ...

adjetivo + descent

Kolokacji: 136

African descent • Irish descent • Italian descent • German descent • Jewish descent • European descent • Chinese descent • ...

preposición + descent

Kolokacji: 12

of descent • in descent • by descent • to one's descent • with descent • ...

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