To move upward; to mount; to go up; to rise; -- opposed to descend.

To rise, in a figurative sense; to proceed from an inferior to a superior degree, from mean to noble objects, from particulars to generals, from modern to ancient times, from one note to another more acute, etc.; as, our inquiries ascend to the remotest antiquity; to ascend to our first progenitor.

To go or move upward upon or along; to climb; to mount; to go up the top of; as, to ascend a hill, a ladder, a tree, a river, a throne.

travel up, "We ascended the mountain"; "go up a ladder"; "The mountaineers slowly ascended the steep slope"

become king or queen; "She ascended to the throne after the King's death"

slope upwards; "The path ascended to the top of the hill"

come up, of celestial bodies; "The sun also rises"; "The sun uprising sees the dusk night fled..."; "Jupiter ascends"

To move upward in a flight vehicle, often directly upward in a near-vertical trajectory, as opposed to the more gradual trajectory of a climb.

To move upward – rising in pitch.

to rise in pitch; pass from any tone to a higher one.