| descent | the act of changing your location in a downward direction |
rappel
abseil | (mountaineering) a descent of a vertical cliff or wall made by using a doubled rope that is fixed to a higher point and wrapped around the body |
custom-made
custom-built | an item made to the customer's specifications |
| ready-made | a manufactured artifact (as a garment or piece of furniture) that is made in advance and available for purchase, their apartment was furnished with ready-mades |
reservoir artificial lake
man-made lake | lake used to store water for community use |
| tailor-made | custom-made clothing |
origin
descent
extraction | properties attributable to your ancestry, he comes from good origins |
| descent | a movement downward |
d lineage
line
line of descent
descent
bloodline
blood line
blood
pedigree
ancestry
origin
parentage
stemma
stockb | the descendants of one individual, his entire lineage has been warriors |
descent
declivity
fall
decline
declination
declension
downslope | a downward slope or bend |
descent
line of descent
lineage
filiation | the kinship relation between an individual and the individual's progenitors |
| bilateral descent | line of descent traced through both the maternal and paternal sides of the family |
| unilateral descent | line of descent traced through one side of the family |
man-made fiber
synthetic fiber | fiber created from natural materials or by chemical processes |
rappel
abseil
rope down | lower oneself with a rope coiled around the body from a mountainside, The ascent was easy--roping down the mountain would be much more difficult and dangerous, You have to learn how to abseil when you want to do technical climbing |
custom-made
custom | made according to the specifications of an individual |
bespoke
bespoken
made-to-order tailored
tailor-made | (of clothing) custom-made |
custom-built
made-to-order | built for a particular individual |
| ready-made | made for purchase and immediate use |
| made | produced by a manufacturing process, bought some made goods at the local store, rope and nails |
| camp-made | made as part of the arts-and-crafts program at summer camp, my camp-made leather wallet |
| machine-made | made by machine |
| factory-made | produced in quantity at a factory |
| ready-made | commercially produced, not homemade, ready-made clothes |
| new-made | newly made, the aroma of new-made bread |
| made | (of a bed) having the sheets and blankets set in order, a neatly made bed |
man-made
semisynthetic
synthetic | not of natural origin, prepared or made artificially, man-made fibers, synthetic leather |
cliched
ready-made | repeated regularly without thought or originality, ready-made phrases |
| made-up | having been paved |
purpose-built
purpose-made | designed and constructed to serve a particular purpose |
| made | successful or assured of success, now I am a made man forever- Christopher Marlowe |
| self-made | having achieved success or recognition by your own efforts, a self-made millionaire |
| well-made | skillfully constructed |