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Climb

//klaɪm// noun, verb

Definitions

Noun

1
An act of climbing.
"Make sure that you keep checking to see that everything remains safe throughout the climb."
2
the act of climbing something wordnet
3
The act of getting to somewhere more elevated.
"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."
4
an event that involves rising to a higher point (as in altitude or temperature or intensity etc.) wordnet
5
An effort of moving upward.
"After a decade of prosperity, millions of Asians are likely to be pushed into poverty, and the climb out of poverty will stall for millions of others."

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an upward slope or grade (as in a road) wordnet

Verb

1
To ascend; rise; to go up. intransitive
"Prices climbed steeply."
2
increase in value or to a higher point wordnet
3
To mount; to move upwards on. transitive
"climbing a tree"
4
improve one's social status wordnet
5
To scale; to get to the top of something. transitive
"He is a curly-haired schoolboy barely in his teens, but 13-year-old Jordan Romero from California has become the youngest person to climb Mount Everest."

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go up or advance wordnet
7
To move (especially up and down something) by gripping with the hands and using the feet. transitive
"My legs were so stiff and my arms so sore that this morning barely could climb out of bed."
8
go upward with gradual or continuous progress wordnet
9
To practise the sport of climbing. intransitive
10
move with effort, by grasping wordnet
11
To jump high. intransitive
"The defender climbed majestically at the near post to convert Johnson's corner."
12
slope upward wordnet
13
To move to a higher position on the social ladder.
14
To move to a higher position on a chart, table, society, etc.
"The hit song has climbed to the number one spot."
15
Of plants, to grow upwards by clinging to something.

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle English climben, from Old English climban (“to climb”), from Proto-West Germanic *klimban, from Proto-Germanic *klimbaną (“to climb, go up by clinging”), believed to be a nasalised variant of Proto-Germanic *klibaną, *klibāną (“to stick, cleave”), from Proto-Indo-European *gley- (“to stick”). Cognate with West Frisian klimme (“to climb”), Dutch klimmen (“to climb”), German klimmen (“to climb”), Old Norse klembra (“to squeeze”), Icelandic klifra (“to climb”). Related to clamber. See also clay, glue.

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