ANGELA: The prominent top ascender of the ‘cross’ intrigues me.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-10-01] Reference

Hay quien afirma que el precio de Maven podría ascender a los 160 o 170 millones de dólares.    From Wordnik.com.  [Yahoo to Acquire Maven Networks for $160M-$170M] Reference

I attach my ascender clips — big metal grips shaped like a smile — one at eye level, the other aligned with my knees.    From Wordnik.com.  [Taking Tree-Hugging to New Heights] Reference

The video was produced and donated by ascender Communications, LLC www.ascender-c.com at the request of The Balm In Gilead, Inc.    From Wordnik.com.  [Poetry Can Change Harlem’s World «] Reference

Two German ironclad warships were rumored to be skulking nearby, and Deryn was meant to be watching for signals from Midshipman Newkirk, who was dangling from a Huxley ascender two thousand feet above them.    From Wordnik.com.  [Behemoth] Reference

The ascender clips slide up and then lock in place, anchoring me to the rope as I pull and push, crunching and extending my body, inchworming through the open air, the lowest branches 150 feet above the ground.    From Wordnik.com.  [Taking Tree-Hugging to New Heights] Reference

I got into the “Plutonic pit” through the S.E. break in its wall, and was said to be the first English person to reach it from the S.E., and the twenty-eighth ascender, according to my well-informed German friends.    From Wordnik.com.  [Travels in West Africa] Reference

Tape the ascender to the piece of paper so it stays in place.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

Climbing a rope requires a mechanical device called the ascender.    From Wordnik.com.  [ReadABlog.com New Blogs and RSS Feeds] Reference

That 7 pixel difference is 20\% of the typefaces ascender / cap height!.    From Wordnik.com.  [ShaunInman.com // plus Elsewhere] Reference

Can the same concept of the logarithmic spiral be applied to the cam of an ascender?.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

Every ascender I own or have seen have the very tip of the cam touching the metal wall.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

To the side of the ascender, use the marker to mark the line where the straightedge lies.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

Thus B is formed of an ascender and a double paunch, H is formed of two ascenders and a cross, etc.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip] Reference

Maybe I am misunderstanding what you are saying but that is exactly how the cam on an ascender works.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

First he used his ascender but, as many climbers know, this only works in certain snow / temperature conditions.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

The TrueType Specification has three values for vertical metrics (ascender, descender, line gap in the hhea table).    From Wordnik.com.  [Discussions: Message List - root] Reference

Matemático, físico, e inventor francês que, com Nicolas Robert, foi o primeiro em ascender em um balão de hidrogênio.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nothingandall] Reference

The rope from the boulder to my ascender was curved by the wind, went over the edge of the cliff into oblivion, pulling me with it.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

The video was produced and donated by ascender Communications, LLC (www. ascender-c.com) at the request of The Balm In Gilead, Inc.    From Wordnik.com.  [WN.com - Articles related to Barack Obama veut accélérer la réforme de la finance] Reference

Place the straightedge on top of the ascender so it runs between the axis of the cam and where the cam contacts the rope tangentially.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

With the ice accumulating between its sharp biting teeth, the ascender became useless, even dangerous, to use, sliding down at every pull.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

It is the distance (in EM-square coordinates) between the bottom of the descender of one line and the top of the ascender of the next line.    From Wordnik.com.  [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference

The harness attaches to the ascender which slides up the rope but when your weight is pulled down it grabs the rope with small teeth that penetrate it.    From Wordnik.com.  [ReadABlog.com New Blogs and RSS Feeds] Reference

The smaller ascender operates in Earth's atmosphere as it's skin is a lot thicker and tougher, but this makes it too heavy to be able to escape Earth's orbit.    From Wordnik.com.  [WN.com - Business News] Reference

Now of course "Jumar" is a product name that has become the device name (like the Frigidaire!) ... and it may have been some other (even more aggressive) tooth ascender.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

Compite en nuestras distintas categoría por las victorias, los podios o por los puntos que colmen tu objetivo de proclamarte campeón o para ascender o salvar tu categoría.    From Wordnik.com.  [WN.com - Articles related to Ecclestone dismisses criticism on Schumacher] Reference

So you need two ascenders: one goes attached to the harness and the other one, fitted with a piece of tubular webbing, allows you to stand up on it and slide the upper ascender up the rope.    From Wordnik.com.  [ReadABlog.com New Blogs and RSS Feeds] Reference

I got into the "Plutonic pit" through the S.E. break in its wall, and was said to be the first English person to reach it from the S.E., and the twenty-eighth ascender, according to my well - informed German friends.    From Wordnik.com.  [Travels in West Africa] Reference

(www. ascender-c.com) at the request of The Balm In Gilead, Inc. Drag to Playlist.    From Wordnik.com.  [WN.com - Articles related to Barack Obama veut accélérer la réforme de la finance] Reference

The curled serif intercepts the strong black line of the ascender, creates a white space overtop of where a black line should peek through the vacant space of the serif’s loop.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-10-01] Reference

No one expected to climb up from an ascender.    From Wordnik.com.  [Behemoth] Reference

Both 'h's have a bar thru the ascender.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bradford's History of 'Plimoth Plantation' From the Original Manuscript. With a Report of the Proceedings Incident to the Return of the Manuscript to Massachusetts] Reference

(4) Abbreviation by suspension consists in leaving the word unfinished; the omission being indicated by a stroke, which cuts through any ascender that may be in its way.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip] Reference

Insert a rope into the ascender.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

"storrick ascender" for a great site) that was about 25 degrees in cam angle (much steeper than cams).    From Wordnik.com. Reference