Definitions for climb
klaɪmclimb

Princeton's WordNet(1.50 / 2 votes)Rate this definition:

1. ascent, acclivity, rise, raise, climb, upgradenoun

   an upward slope or grade (as in a road)

   "the car couldn't make it up the rise"

2. climb, climbing, mountingnoun

   an event that involves rising to a higher point (as in altitude or temperature or intensity etc.)

3. climb, mountverb

   the act of climbing something

   "it was a difficult climb to the top"

4. climb, climb up, mount, go upverb

   go upward with gradual or continuous progress

   "Did you ever climb up the hill behind your house?"

5. climbverb

   move with difficulty, by grasping

6. wax, mount, climb, riseverb

   go up or advance

   "Sales were climbing after prices were lowered"

7. climbverb

   slope upward

   "The path climbed all the way to the top of the hill"

8. climbverb

   improve one's social status

   "This young man knows how to climb the social ladder"

9. 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(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. climbnoun

   An act of climbing.

2. climbnoun

   The act of getting to somewhere more elevated.

3. climbnoun

   An upwards struggle

4. climbverb

   To ascend; rise; to go up.

   Prices climbed steeply.

5. climbverb

   To mount; to move upwards on.

6. climbverb

   To scale; to get to the top of something.

7. climbverb

   To move (especially up and down something) by gripping with the hands and using the feet.

8. climbverb

   to practise the sport of climbing

9. climbverb

   to jump high

10. climbverb

    To move to a higher position on the social ladder.

11. climbverb

    Of plants, to grow upwards by clinging to something.

12. 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(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. 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.

2. 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.

Webster Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Climbverb

   to ascend or mount laboriously, esp. by use of the hands and feet

2. Climbverb

   to ascend as if with effort; to rise to a higher point

3. 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

4. Climbverb

   to ascend, as by means of the hands and feet, or laboriously or slowly; to mount

5. Climbnoun

   the act of one who climbs; ascent by climbing

6. Etymology: [AS. climban; akin to OHG. chlimban, G. & D. klimmen, Icel. klfa, and E. cleave to adhere.]

Freebase(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. 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(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. 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.]

Matched Categories

1. • Increase
   • Move
   • Progress
   • Rise
   • Slope

British National Corpus

1. Verbs Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'climb' in Verbs Frequency: #361

How to pronounce climb?

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of climb in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of climb in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of climb in a Sentence

1. David McGrain:

   The narcissism among some of my team mates made me want to vomit, all they could think about was their goddamn climb, when hours before we were holding crushed skulls in our hands.

2. Gilles Baulard:

   When they climb in the rack, they go at 1.5 meters per second, so this is a very fast piece of equipment.

3. Eric Boullier:

   There is a lot of work obviously to be done, we always say we have a mountain to climb but it looks like it's a very high mountain.

4. Kumi Naidoo:

   We have a 1.5-degree wall to climb, but the ladder isn't tall enough.

5. Dan Schnur:

   That was a very tough hill to climb in deep-blue California, even in a general election campaign, she'd be talking to a much more ideologically diverse electorate. Whether in a primary or a general election, she's certainly going to face very difficult questions about her record at Hewlett-Packard, but a national electorate might not be as predisposed to reject her argument.

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