descant |
تقریر کرنا ۔ ساز کے ساتھ لگانا ۔ |
(1) - Descant (v. i.) To comment freely; to discourse with fullness and particularity; to discourse at large.
(2) - Descant (v. i.) To sing a variation or accomplishment.
(3) - Descant (v. i.) A discourse formed on its theme, like variations on a musical air; a comment or comments.
(4) - Descant (v. i.) The canto, cantus, or soprano voice; the treble.
(5) - Descant (v. i.) The upper voice in part music.
(6) - Descant (v. i.) Originally, a double song; a melody or counterpoint sung above the plain song of the tenor; a variation of an air; a variation by ornament of the main subject or plain song. |
descend |
نازل ہونا ۔ اترنا ۔ اچانک حملہ کرنا ۔ |
(1) - Descend (v. t.) To go down upon or along; to pass from a higher to a lower part of; as, they descended the river in boats; to descend a ladder.
(2) - Descend (v. i.) To fall in pitch; to pass from a higher to a lower tone.
(3) - Descend (v. i.) To move toward the south, or to the southward.
(4) - Descend (v. i.) To come down, as from a source, original, or stock; to be derived; to proceed by generation or by transmission; to fall or pass by inheritance; as, the beggar may descend from a prince; a crown descends to the heir.
(5) - Descend (v. i.) To pass from the more general or important to the particular or less important matters to be considered.
(6) - Descend (v. i.) To come down to a lower, less fortunate, humbler, less virtuous, or worse, state or station; to lower or abase one's self; as, he descended from his high estate.
(7) - Descend (v. i.) To make an attack, or incursion, as if from a vantage ground; to come suddenly and with violence; -- with on or upon.
(8) - Descend (v. i.) To enter mentally; to retire.
(9) - Descend (v. i.) To pass from a higher to a lower place; to move downwards; to come or go down in any way, as by falling, flowing, walking, etc.; to plunge; to fall; to incline downward; -- the opposite of ascend. |
