climb
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /klaɪm/, [kˡlaɪm]
climb (climbs, present participle climbing; past climbed, past participle climbed)
- (intransitive) To ascend; rise; to go up.
- Prices climbed steeply.
- Black vapours climb aloft, and cloud the day.
- (transitive) To mount; to move upwards on.
- They climbed the mountain.
- Climbing a tree
- (transitive) To scale; to get to the top of something.
- (transitive) To move (especially up and down something) by gripping with the hands and using the feet.
- 1900, James Frazer, The Golden Bough Chapter 65
- A priest clad in a white robe climbs the tree and with a golden sickle cuts the mistletoe, which is caught in a white cloth.
- 1900, L. Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
- She thought she must have been mistaken at first, for none of the scarecrows in Kansas ever wink; but presently the figure nodded its head to her in a friendly way. Then she climbed down from the fence and walked up to it, while Toto ran around the pole and barked.
- 1900, James Frazer, The Golden Bough Chapter 65
- (intransitive) to practise the sport of climbing
- (intransitive) to jump high
- To move to a higher position on the social ladder.
- (botany) Of plants, to grow upwards by clinging to something.
- French: grimper, monter
- German: klettern, steigen
- Italian: arrampicare, scalare, salire
- Portuguese: subir
- Russian: поднима́ться
- Spanish: escalar, subir
- French: escalader
- German: klettern, steigen
- Italian: risalire
- Portuguese: escalar, subir
- Russian: взбира́ться
- Spanish: subir
- German: aufsteigen
- Italian: scalare
- Portuguese: escalar
- Spanish: subir, trepar
- French: grimper
- German: klettern
- Italian: arrampicarsi
- Portuguese: trepar
- Russian: кара́бкаться
- Spanish: trepar, escalar
- Portuguese: subir
- German: klettern
- Italian: arrampicarsi
- Portuguese: trepar
- Spanish: trepar
climb (plural climbs)
- An act of climbing.
- The act of getting to somewhere more elevated.
- 2012, July 15. Richard Williams in Guardian Unlimited, Tour de France 2012: Carpet tacks cannot force Bradley Wiggins off track ↗
- The Mur de Péguère is a savage little climb, its last four kilometres a narrow tunnel of trees and excited spectators urging on the straining riders.
- 1999, B. Keith Jones, The Roomie Do Me Blues
- I guess the room wasn't so bad, except for the climb to get there. The stairs were destined to be a serious health hazard.
- 2012, July 15. Richard Williams in Guardian Unlimited, Tour de France 2012: Carpet tacks cannot force Bradley Wiggins off track ↗
- An upwards struggle
- Italian: scalata, arrampicata, ascesa
- Portuguese: escalada, subida, ascensão
- Russian: восхожде́ние
- Spanish: subida, ascenso
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