climb
VerbSubstantivhäufig in Dialogen
- //ˈklaɪ̯m//
- /[ˈkʰl̥aɪ̯m]/
To traverse a slope or contour, either upwards (ascending) or downwards (descending).
Verb
- 1
To traverse a slope or contour, either upwards (ascending) or downwards (descending).
People ask me, What is the use of climbing Mount Everest? and my answer must at once be, "It is of no use." There is not the slightest prospect of any gain whatsoever...What we get from this adventure is just sheer joy. And joy is, after all, the end of life. We do not live to eat and make money. We eat and make money to be able to live. That is what life means and what life is for.
When I call up Dennis Tully to memory, it is always in the shop or in the fine, crowded house that I see him, and never standing apart, with clear space shaping itself behind him. And yet I must often have seen him so, climbing down the church steps after Mass, or walking across the square, hat firmly anchored. Always, I see him moving among things, a thick atmosphere of objects.
- 2
(literally or figuratively): To ascend; rise; to go up.
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.
- 3
(literally or figuratively): To ascend; rise; to go up. To ascend in a non-physical or figurative sense.
The hit song has climbed to the number one spot.
- 4
übertragen(literally or figuratively): To ascend; rise; to go up. To move to a higher position on a chart or hierarchy.
Prices climbed steeply.
People may spend their whole lives climbing the ladder of success only to find, once they reach the top, that the ladder is leaning against the wrong wall.
- 5
To mount; to move upwards on.
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.
- 6
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.
- 7
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.
- 8
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.
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.
- 9
To practise the sport of climbing.
- 10
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.
- 11
(botany) Of plants, to grow upwards by clinging to something.
Herkunft
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.
Substantiv
- 1
An act of climbing.
Make sure that you keep checking to see that everything remains safe throughout the climb.
- 2
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.
- 3
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.
Formen
- Plural
- climbs
- Präteritum
- climbed, clomb
- Partizip II
- climbed, clomb, clumb
- Partizip I
- climbing
- 3. Person Singular
- climbs
climb · To traverse a slope or contour, either upwards (ascending) or downwards (descending).
climbing · The sport of climbing, ascending a wall or a rock or another…cling · Fruit (especially peach) whose flesh adheres strongly to the…clinging · Clingy.