What does Climb mean?
Definitions for Climb
klaɪmclimb
This dictionary definitions page includes all the possible meanings, example usage and translations of the word Climb.
Princeton's WordNet
ascent, acclivity, rise, raise, climb, upgradenoun
an upward slope or grade (as in a road)
"the car couldn't make it up the rise"
climb, climbing, mountingnoun
an event that involves rising to a higher point (as in altitude or temperature or intensity etc.)
climb, mountverb
the act of climbing something
"it was a difficult climb to the top"
climb, climb up, mount, go upverb
go upward with gradual or continuous progress
"Did you ever climb up the hill behind your house?"
climbverb
move with difficulty, by grasping
wax, mount, climb, riseverb
go up or advance
"Sales were climbing after prices were lowered"
climbverb
slope upward
"The path climbed all the way to the top of the hill"
climbverb
improve one's social status
"This young man knows how to climb the social ladder"
rise, go up, climbverb
increase in value or to a higher point
"prices climbed steeply"; "the value of our house rose sharply last year"
Wiktionary
climbnoun
An act of climbing.
climbnoun
The act of getting to somewhere more elevated.
climbnoun
An upwards struggle
climbverb
To ascend; rise; to go up.
Prices climbed steeply.
climbverb
To mount; to move upwards on.
climbverb
To scale; to get to the top of something.
climbverb
To move (especially up and down something) by gripping with the hands and using the feet.
climbverb
to practise the sport of climbing
climbverb
to jump high
climbverb
To move to a higher position on the social ladder.
climbverb
Of plants, to grow upwards by clinging to something.
Etymology: From climben, from climban, from klimbanan, believed to be a nasalised variant of klibanan, from gley-. Cognate with Dutch klimmen, German klimmen, klembra, klifra. Related to clamber. See also clay, glue.
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
To Climbverb
To ascend.
When shall I come to th’ top of that same hill? ——
—— You do climb up it now. Look, how we labour. William Shakespeare.Is’t not enough to break into my garden,
Climbing my walls, in spight of me the owner? William Shakespeare.Thy arms pursue
Paths of renown, and climb ascents of fame. Matthew Prior.Forlorn he must, and persecuted fly;
Climb the steep mountain, in the cavern lie. Matthew Prior.To CLIMBverb
pret. clomb or climbed; part. clomb or climbed. To ascend up any place; to mount by means of some hold or footing. It implies labour and difficulty, and successive efforts.
Etymology: climan , Sax. klimmen, Dutch.
You tempt the fury of my three attendants,
Lean famine, quartering steel, and climbing fire. William Shakespeare.Things, at the worst, will cease; or else climb upward
To what they were before. William Shakespeare, Macbeth.Jonathan climbed up upon his hands, and upon his feet. 1 Sam.
Thou, sun! of this great world both eye and soul,
Acknowledge him thy greater; sound his praise
In thy eternal course, both when thou climb’st,
And when high noon hast gain’d, and when thou fall’st. John Milton, Paradise Lost, b. v. l. 174.No rebel Titan’s sacrilegious crime,
By heaping hills on hills, can thither climb. Wentworth Dillon.Black vapours climb aloft, and cloud the day. Dryden.
What controuling cause
Makes waters, in contempt of nature’s laws,
Climb up, and gain th’ aspiring mountain’s height. Richard Blackmore.
ChatGPT
climb
Climb is defined as the action of ascending or going upwards, typically by using one's hands and feet to gain elevation on a surface such as a mountain, hill, ladder, or staircase. It can also refer to the act of moving upward in a gradual or steady manner, such as climbing the ranks in a profession or organization.
Webster Dictionary
Climbverb
to ascend or mount laboriously, esp. by use of the hands and feet
Climbverb
to ascend as if with effort; to rise to a higher point
Climbverb
to ascend or creep upward by twining about a support, or by attaching itself by tendrils, rootlets, etc., to a support or upright surface
Climbverb
to ascend, as by means of the hands and feet, or laboriously or slowly; to mount
Climbnoun
the act of one who climbs; ascent by climbing
Etymology: [AS. climban; akin to OHG. chlimban, G. & D. klimmen, Icel. klfa, and E. cleave to adhere.]
Wikidata
Climb
In aviation, the term climb refers both to the actual operation of increasing the altitude of an aircraft and to the logical phase of a typical flight following takeoff and preceding the cruise, during which an increase in altitude to a predetermined level is effected.
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
Climb
klīm, v.i. or v.t. to ascend or mount by clutching with the hands and feet: to ascend with difficulty: to mount.—adj. Climb′able, capable of being climbed.—ns. Climb′er, one who or that which climbs: (pl.) an old-fashioned popular title for several orders of birds whose feet are mainly adapted for climbing: (bot.) those plants which, having weak stems, seek support from other objects, chiefly from other plants, in order to ascend from the ground; Climb′ing. [A.S. climban; cf. Ger. klimmen; conn. with Clamber and Cleave, to stick.]
British National Corpus
Verbs Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'Climb' in Verbs Frequency: #361
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of Climb in Chaldean Numerology is: 4
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of Climb in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3
Examples of Climb in a Sentence
The rule reflects a dark vision of the United States -- as an unwelcoming nation that wants to keep out people who seek to join their family, work hard, and climb the economic ladder -- based on the erroneous assumption that they won't contribute to our communities, our economy, and our nation.
Climb mountains to see lowlands.
If you gonna go climb a mountain, that you've never climbed before, or a mountain it's really important for you to summit... Do you want a guy, do you want a guide that says to you: - You know, I don't know if we gonna be able to get up to face that mountain. Or do you wanna guy who looks you in the eye and says: - Let's go! We're gonna go climb this mountain?! (...) Well, here's what I'll say if I was going to take somebody up a side of a mountain I'd make sure we summited.
The great thing is that everything on this wheelchair is automated, if I want to climb the stairs I can just drive up to them, turn around, press one button and all I have to do is control the velocity I want to drive at. The alignment on the stairs, the leveling of the wheelchair driver, is automated and he can control it, he can view the back with a back facing camera, and have a full, safe, driving experience.
Actually it's very simple, I bought a camera and after that I thought,' maybe I'll try to climb on rooftops.' I took some pictures from the rooftops and thought,' I like it' and after that we climbed all around Russia, we did a lot of cities and after that we traveled because Russia for us was finished and we thought it wasn't a bad idea to try something really kind of amazing.
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- تسلقArabic
- палазіць, палезці, лезці, лазіцьBelarusian
- катеря се, изкачвам се, качвам сеBulgarian
- pignatBreton
- escalarCatalan, Valencian
- růst, léztCzech
- dringoWelsh
- steigen, klettern, aufsteigenGerman
- σκαρφαλώνω, ανεβαίνωGreek
- grimpiEsperanto
- ascenso, trepar, subir, subida, escalarSpanish
- kohota, kiivetä, nousta, kavutaFinnish
- grimper, escalader, monterFrench
- tógIrish
- streap, dìrichScottish Gaelic
- האמיר, עלה, טיפסHebrew
- चढ़नाHindi
- բարձրանալ, ելնել, մագլցելArmenian
- klimarIdo
- klífa, klifraIcelandic
- arrampicare, scalareItalian
- 攀じ登る, 登るJapanese
- 오르다, 기어 올라가다Korean
- ascendō, scandoLatin
- искачува, ползи, се јази, искачување, се искачуваMacedonian
- klatreNorwegian
- beklimmen, klimmenDutch
- klatreNorwegian Nynorsk
- klatreNorwegian
- ascensão, escalada, subida, trepar, subir, escalarPortuguese
- sui, urcaRomanian
- лазить, карабкаться, вскарабкаться, восхождение, полазить, залезть, подняться, подниматься, лезть, взбираться, взобраться, подъёмRussian
- klättraSwedish
- ปีนThai
- tırmanmak, çıkmakTurkish
- пола́зити, ла́зити, лі́зти, полі́зтиUkrainian
- چڑھناUrdu
- lên, leoVietnamese
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