climb

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   To ascend

   To ascend; rise; to go up.

   • Prices climbed steeply.
   • Black vapours climb aloft, and cloud the day.
2. 2

   To mount

   To mount; to move upwards on.

   • climbing a tree
   • They climbed the mountain.
3. 3

   To scale

   To scale; to get to the top of something.

   • 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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   1. 4

      To enter, mount or otherwise assume a position in or on a conveyance.

      • He climbed into the passenger-seat of the car.
      • We'll climb back on our bikes and continue the route.
   2. 5

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

      • My legs were so stiff and my arms so sore that this morning I could barely climb out of bed.
      • 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.
   3. 6

      To practise the sport of climbing.

   4. 7

      To jump high.

      • The defender climbed majestically at the near post to convert Johnson's corner.
      • As the game moved towards injury time, the Ospreys forced a line-out which Jonathan Thomas climbed high to take.
      • Four minutes of stoppage time were virtually up when Ricketts climbed to head in the equaliser from substitute Nicky Southall's centre.
   5. 8

      (botany) Of plants, to grow upwards by clinging to something.

   6. 9

      An act of climbing.

      • Make sure that you keep checking to see that everything remains safe throughout the climb.
   7. 10

      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.
      • 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.
   8. 11

      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.
      • This memorial dedicated to those / Who persished on the climb
      • An extended climb in Treasury yields risks exacerbating the pressures that have dogged a broad array of assets in recent months.

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