climb

English Online Dictionary. What means climb‎? What does climb mean?

English

Etymology

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.

Pronunciation

• enPR: klīm, IPA^(key): /klaɪm/
• Homophone: clime
• Rhymes: -aɪm

Verb

climb (third-person singular simple present climbs, present participle climbing, simple past climbed or (archaic) clomb, past participle climbed or (archaic) clumb)

1. (intransitive) To ascend; rise; to go up.
2. (transitive) To mount; to move upwards on.

   climbing a tree
3. (transitive) To scale; to get to the top of something.
4. (transitive) To move (especially up and down something) by gripping with the hands and using the feet.
5. (intransitive) To practise the sport of climbing.
6. (intransitive) To jump high.
7. To move to a higher position on the social ladder.
8. To move to a higher position on a chart, table, society, etc.

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

Usage notes

In the past, the forms clomb and clumb were encountered as simple past and past participle forms; these forms are now archaic or dialectal.

Conjugation

Synonyms

(get to the top of): scale

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Noun

climb (plural climbs)

1. An act of climbing.
2. The act of getting to somewhere more elevated.
3. An effort of moving upward.

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Italian

Etymology

Pseudo-anglicism; transferred sense from English climb.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈklajmb/, (careful style) /ˈklajm/
• Rhymes: -ajmb, (careful style) -ajm

Noun

climb m (usually invariable, plural climbs)

1. (aviation) variometer, rate-of-climb indicator

   Synonym: variometro