descent
descendencia
definition
noun
the plane had gone into a steep descent
an action of moving downward, dropping, or falling.
American families of Hungarian descent
the origin or background of a person in terms of family or nationality.
translation of 'descent'
noun
pendiente,
descendencia,
bajada,
declive,
descenso,
origen
example
The 'descent' was not steep at all and I could go down there as well as anyone.
From there a steep 'descent' north took us to the edge of another plantation where a well-used footpath dropped down through the trees to a broad track.
The result has been an unintended 'descent' into confusion.
The outcome will be a sexual identity free-for-all, and a further 'descent' into a moral vacuum.
Despite valiant efforts from the cast, the two hours that follow it prove to be nothing more than a 'descent' into the quicksand of mediocrity.
But the sadder scenes were the ones where they shut him in front of a large screen and played him highlights of his career, and excerpts of news footage chronicling the 'descent' into tragedy.
The idea is to prevent my back from arching and my legs from dropping during the 'descent' .
The 'descent' was fast, steep, and playfully technical in parts.
These entries suggest that people of African origins or 'descent' , although very much a minority, were not unusual in sixteenth-century London.
But even they can't entirely salvage the mixture from a gradual 'descent' into mediocrity.
The only alternative to denying responsibility appears to be a complete loss of control - a 'descent' into chaos.
By the time the steepest 'descent' is over my arms are hurting, but we haven't stopped and it's not over yet.
The results are a partial empirical accounting of the ideological developments accompanying the 'descent' into civil war.
It is slightly worrying that I should become obsessed with this again and I think it may signal a 'descent' into nervous break-down.
Their rulers claimed 'descent' from a common ancestor.
But wait - the nightmarish 'descent' into the blind refusal of personal responsibility continues apace.
The track rolled down a steep 'descent' and then gathered itself again in tight knots and ruts which led us through a long, spreading puddle to an estate gate.
He first provided against a sudden 'descent' upon the city by rebuilding the walls of Rome, which remain to this day and are known as the walls of Aurelian.
Resist the pull of the gravity on the 'descent' and force the weight to move slowly back to the start.
The 'descent' drops straight into the sump with no place to rest.
From there, a steep 'descent' drops to a high and rocky col, from where very rocky ground leads to the summit and some of the widest views I've seen for months.
However, the 'descent' into savagery is opposed by many of the children, recognising it as a construct imposed from above by adults.
A few girls of African American 'descent' were sitting on the front porch.
a 'descent' on the enemy airstrip
The 'descent' is much steeper at only 20 km, with some fast bends at the top changing to tight hairpins at the bottom.
Partly Spanish by ancestry, he claimed 'descent' on his father's side from the Scottish monarchy.
The absence of any semblance of discipline is to blame for this 'descent' into moral turpitude.
In these societies, 'descent' is traced through the female side of the family.
In the process he drove himself to exhaustion, and began a tragic 'descent' into paranoia and self-destruction.
An estate is either ancestral or nonancestral; or, as this court says, there are two modes of acquiring title to property, one by 'descent' or inheritance and the other by purchase or by the act or agreement of the parties.
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