Definitions for climb
klaɪmclimb

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

1. ascent, acclivity, rise, raise, climb, upgrade(noun)

   an upward slope or grade (as in a road)

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

2. climb, climbing, mounting(noun)

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

3. climb, mount(verb)

   the act of climbing something

   "it was a difficult climb to the top"

4. climb, climb up, mount, go up(verb)

   go upward with gradual or continuous progress

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

5. climb(verb)

   move with difficulty, by grasping

6. wax, mount, climb, rise(verb)

   go up or advance

   "Sales were climbing after prices were lowered"

7. climb(verb)

   slope upward

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

8. climb(verb)

   improve one's social status

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

9. rise, go up, climb(verb)

   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. climb(Noun)

   An act of climbing.

   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.

2. climb(Noun)

   The act of getting to somewhere more elevated.

   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.

3. climb(Noun)

   An upwards struggle

   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.

4. climb(Verb)

   To ascend; rise; to go up.

   Prices climbed steeply.

   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.

5. climb(Verb)

   To mount; to move upwards on.

   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.

6. climb(Verb)

   To scale; to get to the top of 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.

7. climb(Verb)

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

   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.

8. climb(Verb)

   to practise the sport of climbing

   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.

9. climb(Verb)

   to jump high

   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.

10. climb(Verb)

    To move to a higher position on the social ladder.

    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.

11. climb(Verb)

    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.

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

1. Climb(verb)

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

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

2. Climb(verb)

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

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

3. Climb(verb)

   to ascend or creep upward by twining about a support, or by attaching itself by tendrils, rootlets, etc., to a support or upright surface

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

4. Climb(verb)

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

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

5. Climb(noun)

   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.]

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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.]

British National Corpus

1. Verbs Frequency

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

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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. Tim Pawlenty:

   My campaign for governor will focus on charting a better way forward for Minnesota families who see health care premiums skyrocketing, paychecks not increasing very fast, college costs and student debt rising — all while government spending and taxes climb through the roof.

2. Vitaliy Raskalov:

   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.

3. Michael Jordan:

   If you're trying to achieve, there will be roadblocks. I've had them; everybody has had them. But obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it

4. 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.

5. Vikrant Parsai:

   If you tell somebody to sit on your shoulders, he will try to climb on your head.

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