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Definition of Climb

1. Verb. Go upward with gradual or continuous progress. "They climb up the hill"; "Did you ever climb up the hill behind your house?"

2. Noun. An upward slope or grade (as in a road). "The car couldn't make it up the rise"

3. Verb. Move with difficulty, by grasping.

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

5. Verb. Go up or advance. "Sales were climbing after prices were lowered"

6. Noun. The act of climbing something. "It was a difficult climb to the top"

7. Verb. Slope upward. "The path climbed all the way to the top of the hill"

8. Verb. Improve one's social status. "This young man knows how to climb the social ladder"

9. Verb. Increase in value or to a higher point. "The stock market is going to climb "; "The value of our house rose sharply last year"

Definition of Climb

1. v. i. To ascend or mount laboriously, esp. by use of the hands and feet.

2. v. t. To ascend, as by means of the hands and feet, or laboriously or slowly; to mount.

3. n. The act of one who climbs; ascent by climbing.

Definition of Climb

1. Verb. (intransitive) To ascend; rise; to go up. ¹

2. Verb. (transitive) To mount; to move upwards on. ¹

3. Verb. (transitive) To scale; to get to the top of something. ¹

4. Verb. (transitive) To move (especially up and down something) by gripping with the hands and using the feet. ¹

5. Verb. (intransitive) to practise the sport of climbing ¹

6. Verb. (intransitive) to jump high ¹

7. Verb. To move to a higher position on the social ladder. ¹

8. Verb. (botany) Of plants, to grow upwards by clinging to something. ¹

9. Noun. An act of climbing. ¹

10. Noun. The act of getting to somewhere more elevated. ¹

11. Noun. An upwards struggle ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Climb

1. to ascend [v CLIMBED or CLOMB, CLIMBING, CLIMBS] - See also: ascend

Lexicographical Neighbors of Climb

climatologic climatological climatologies climatologist climatologists climatology climatory climatotherapy climature climatures

climaxed climaxes climaxing climaxless climb (current term) climb-down climb down climb on climb the walls climb up

climbable climbazole climbdown climbdowns climbed climbed the walls climber climbers climbest

Literary usage of Climb

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Slang and Its Analogues Past and Present: A Dictionary, Historical and by John Stephen Farmer, William Ernest Henley (1891)
"This is indeed a climb DOWN on the part of the chief disseminator of the ... in the House yesterday was distinctly in the nature of a climb DOWN. ..."

2. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1887)
"... run, and climb better than any man of his time in Edinburgh. He would race up Arthur's Seat from the head of Hunter's Bog in less than five minutes. ..."

3. An Etymological Dictionary of the English Language by Walter William Skeat (1893)
"+ G. steg, a path ; from steigen, to mount. p. All from Teut. base STIG, to climb, mount (Fick, iii. 347), answering to Aryan ^STIGH, ..."

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