walk out - leave abruptly, often in protest or anger; The customer that was not served walked out go forth, leave, go away - go away from a place; At what time does your train leave?; She didn't leave until midnight; The ship leaves at midnight
The Ascendant in Astrology. What are Rising Signs? Your Rising Sign, otherwise known as an Ascendant, is the Zodiac Sign that was rising on the eastern horizon at the moment you were born. It can be abbreviated on a birth chart as ASC or AS. When you know the time you were born, your Ascendant Sign can be calculated to the exact degree.
A rise, esp in stock prices; an increase of value: the strongest and broadest uptick in the history of the company/ Another 10 percent uptick and you double up again Improvement; raising: His apparent uptick in spirit was contagious [1970+; fr the use, on boards above stock-market stations, of a plus sign (compare British tick, ''check mark'') beside a stock of which the last sale represented a rise in price; a minus sign represents a down tick; probably influenced by the tick, like click, or notch, representing one degree of change; compare ratchet up]