climb
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English climben, clymben, 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.
Inflected forms:
form: climbs
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: climbing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: climbed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: clomb
pos: verb
tags: archaic
past
form: climbed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: clomb
pos: verb
tags: archaic
participle
past
form: clumb
pos: verb
tags: archaic
participle
past
form: no-table-tags
pos: verb
tags: table-tags
form: glossary
pos: verb
tags: inflection-template
form: climb
pos: verb
tags: infinitive
form: climb
pos: verb
tags: first-person
present
singular
form: climbed
pos: verb
tags: first-person
past
singular
form: clomb
pos: verb
tags: archaic
first-person
past
singular
form: climb
pos: verb
tags: present
second-person
singular
form: climbest
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
second-person
singular
form: climbed
pos: verb
tags: past
second-person
singular
form: climbedst
pos: verb
tags: archaic
past
second-person
singular
form: clomb
pos: verb
tags: archaic
past
second-person
singular
form: climbs
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: climbeth
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
singular
third-person
form: climbed
pos: verb
tags: past
singular
third-person
form: clomb
pos: verb
tags: archaic
past
singular
third-person
form: climb
pos: verb
tags: plural
present
form: climbed
pos: verb
tags: past
plural
form: clomb
pos: verb
tags: archaic
past
plural
form: climb
pos: verb
tags: present
subjunctive
form: climbed
pos: verb
tags: past
subjunctive
form: clomb
pos: verb
tags: archaic
past
subjunctive
form: climb
pos: verb
tags: imperative
present
form: -
pos: verb
tags: imperative
past
form: climbing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: climbed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: clumb
pos: verb
tags: archaic
participle
past
form: climbs
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To ascend; rise; to go up.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Prices climbed steeply.
Black vapours climb aloft, and cloud the day.
Looking up suddenly, I found mine eyes / Confronted with the minster's vast repose. / Silent and gray as forest-leaguered cliff / Left inland by the ocean's slow retreat, / […] / Remembering shocks of surf that clomb and fell, / Spume-sliding down the baffled decuman, […]
So we continue climbing to the saddle of the Kleine Scheidegg, where ahead there comes into view the wide expanse of the Grindelwald valley, backed by the snowy crown of the Wetterhorn.
After Bridge of Orchy, the line climbs steeply into the wild country of Rannoch Moor. The railway builders chose a different route across the moor from the road - we are completely on our own up here.
gloss: To ascend; rise; to go up.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: The hit song has climbed to the number one spot.
gloss: To mount; to move upwards on.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: climbing a tree
They climbed the mountain.
Other Hooverian devices become familiar too. Characters often have names that are so obscure they barely seem like real names (Ryle, Lowen, Chastin, Atlas, Crew) but might wind up climbing the baby name list — now you know why — in a few years’ time.
gloss: To scale; to get to the top of something.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: 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.
gloss: To enter, mount or otherwise assume a position in or on a conveyance.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: He climbed into the passenger-seat of the car.
We'll climb back on our bikes and continue the route.
gloss: To move (especially up and down something) by gripping with the hands and using the feet.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: My legs were so stiff and my arms so sore that this morning I could barely climb out of bed.
Greasing involves climbing under the vehicle into an inspection pit.
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.
She thought she must have been mistaken at first, for none of the scarecrows in Kansas ever wink; but presently the figure nodded its head to her in a friendly way. Then she climbed down from the fence and walked up to it, while Toto ran around the pole and barked.
Cutter and Bolan climbed around the furniture and piled into the back of the truck.
gloss: To practise the sport of climbing.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To jump high.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: 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.
gloss: (botany) Of plants, to grow upwards by clinging to something.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
transitive
gloss: An act of climbing.
pos: noun
examples: Make sure that you keep checking to see that everything remains safe throughout the climb.
gloss: The act of getting to somewhere more elevated.
pos: noun
examples: 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.
gloss: An effort of moving upward.
pos: noun
examples: 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.
Derived words: ants climbing a tree
bullet climb
climbability
climbable
climb down
climb down someone's throat
climber
climbing gourami
climbing lane
climbing maidenhair fern
climbing nightshade
climbing perch
climb into
climb on the bandwagon
climb the ladder
climb the walls
climb up
climb up one's thumb
climb up the ladder
declimb
free-climb
go climb a tree
have a mountain to climb
lead climb
monkey-no-climb
mountain to climb
overclimb
rock-climb
step climb
unclimbed
upclimb
anti-climb
climb-down
climb-out
climb rate
cruise climb
hill climb
rate of climb
rate of climb indicator
uphill climb
zoom climb
Translations:
lang: Aklanon
word: saka'
lang: Albanian
word: ngjit
lang: Albanian
word: hip
lang: Albanian
word: m'u nit (gheg)
lang: Southern Altai
word: кӧдӱрӱлер
roman: ködürüler
lang: Arabic
word: تَسَلَّقَ
roman: tasallaqa
lang: Assyrian Neo-Aramaic
word: ܐܵܣܹܩ
roman: āsēq
lang: Assyrian Neo-Aramaic
word: ܪܵܝܹܡ
roman: rāyēm
lang: Armenian
word: բարձրանալ
roman: barjranal
lang: Assamese
word: বগা
roman: boga
lang: Balinese
word: menék
lang: Balinese
word: munggah
lang: Bangi
word: bata
lang: Central Bikol
word: sakat
lang: Breton
word: pignat
lang: Bulgarian
word: качвам се
roman: kačvam se
lang: Bulgarian
word: изкачвам се
roman: izkačvam se
lang: Catalan
word: escalar
lang: Catalan
word: muntar
lang: Cebuano
word: saka
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 登
roman: dēng
lang: Czech
word: růst
lang: Dutch
word: klimmen
lang: Esperanto
word: supreniri
lang: Estonian
word: ronima
lang: Estonian
word: tõusma
lang: Finnish
word: kohota
lang: Finnish
word: nousta
lang: Finnish
word: yletä
lang: Finnish
word: kivuta
lang: French
word: grimper
lang: French
word: monter
lang: Georgian
word: აცოცება
roman: acoceba
lang: Georgian
word: აძრომა
roman: aʒroma
lang: German
word: klettern
lang: German
word: steigen
lang: Gothic
word: 𐍃𐍄𐌴𐌹𐌲𐌰𐌽
roman: steigan
lang: Greek
word: ανεβαίνω
roman: anevaíno
lang: Gujarati
word: ચઢવું
roman: caḍhvũ
lang: Hebrew
word: עלה
roman: alá
lang: Hebrew
word: האמיר
roman: he'emír
lang: Higaonon
word: paminahik
lang: Hindi
word: चढ़ना
roman: caṛhnā
lang: Hungarian
word: felmegy
lang: Hungarian
word: felmászik
lang: Icelandic
word: klifra
lang: Indonesian
word: mendaki
lang: Indonesian
word: memanjat
lang: Irish
word: ardaigh
lang: Irish
word: téigh suas
lang: Irish
word: gabh suas
lang: Italian
word: arrampicare
lang: Italian
word: scalare
lang: Italian
word: salire
lang: Japanese
word: 登る
roman: noboru
lang: Javanese
word: mundhak
lang: Javanese
word: pènèk
lang: Old Javanese
word: nek
lang: Old Javanese
word: uṇḍa
lang: Kashmiri
word: کھَسُن
roman: khasun
lang: Kongo
word: manta
lang: Korean
word: 오르다
roman: oreuda
lang: Kumyk
word: гётерилмек
roman: göterilmek
lang: Kyrgyz
word: көтөрүлүү
roman: kötörülüü
lang: Latin
word: ascendō
lang: Latin
word: scandō
lang: Lingala
word: mata
lang: Macedonian
word: иска́чува
roman: iskáčuva
lang: Macedonian
word: се иска́чува
roman: se iskáčuva
lang: Malay
word: naik
lang: Malay
word: memanjat
lang: Malay
word: mendaki
lang: Western Bukidnon Manobo
word: pamenahik
lang: Mansaka
word: saka
lang: Maranao
word: panik
lang: Marathi
word: चढणे
roman: caḍhṇe
lang: Central Sierra Miwok
word: čy·m-
lang: Mongolian
word: өгсөх
roman: ögsöx
lang: Norman
word: grîmper
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: klatre
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: klatre
lang: Occitan
word: montar
lang: Occitan
word: escalar
lang: Odia
word: ଉଠିବା
roman: uṭhibā
lang: Old English
word: stīgan
lang: Persian
word: بالا رفتن
lang: Polish
word: rosnąć
lang: Polish
word: wzrosnąć
lang: Portuguese
word: subir
lang: Quechua
word: siqay
lang: Romagnol
word: muntêr
lang: Romanian
word: urca
lang: Russian
word: поднима́ться
roman: podnimátʹsja
lang: Russian
word: подня́ться
roman: podnjátʹsja
lang: Sanskrit
word: रोहति
roman: rohati
lang: Scots
word: clim
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: streap
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: rasti
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: porasti
lang: Lower Sorbian
word: łazyś
lang: Lower Sorbian
word: lězć
lang: Spanish
word: escalar
lang: Spanish
word: subir
lang: Sranan Tongo
word: kren
lang: Swedish
word: klättra
lang: Sylheti
word: ꠛꠣꠅꠀ
roman: baoa
lang: Tagalog
word: akyat
lang: Tamil
word: ஏறு
roman: ēṟu
lang: Tetum
word: sa'e
lang: Thai
word: ปีน
roman: bpiin
lang: Thai
word: ขึ้น
roman: kʉ̂n
lang: Turkish
word: tırmanmak
lang: Ottoman Turkish
word: آشمق
roman: aşmak
lang: Ukrainian
word: підніма́тися
roman: pidnimátysja
lang: Unami
word: làkusi
lang: Urdu
word: چڑھنا
roman: caṛhnā
lang: Vietnamese
word: leo
lang: Vietnamese
word: lên
lang: Vietnamese
word: trèo
lang: Waray-Waray
word: sag-ka
lang: Waray-Waray
word: saka
lang: Welsh
word: dringo
lang: Yiddish
word: שטײַגן
roman: shtaygn