climb

Denizione di  climb - dizionario di inglese del sito grammaticainglese.org - definizione traduzione e spiegazione grammaticale


Definizione monolingua climb



climb


Verb

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


  1. (intransitive) To ascend; rise; to go up.
    Prices climbed steeply.
  2. (transitive) To mount; to move upwards on.
    They climbed the mountain.
    Climbing a tree
  3. (transitive) To scale; to get to the top of something.
    • 2010 May 22, David Harrison, “American boy, 13, is youngest person to climb Everest”, Daily Telegraph online:
      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.
  4. (transitive) To move (especially up and down something) by gripping with the hands and using the feet.
    • 1900, James Frazer, The Golden Bough Chapter 65
      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.
    • 1900, L. Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
      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.
    • 2008, Tony Atkins, Dragonhawk - the Turning
      Cutter and Bolan climbed around the furniture and piled into the back of the truck.
  5. (intransitive) to practise the sport of climbing
  6. (intransitive) to jump high
    • 2010 December 28, Paul Fletcher, “Man City 4 - 0 Aston Villa”, BBC:
      The defender climbed majestically at the near post to convert Johnsons corner.
    • 2008 September 13, lsullivan mark orders, “Ospreys Glasgow Magners League”, South Wales Evening Post:
      As the game moved towards injury time, the Ospreys forced a line-out which Jonathan Thomas climbed high to take.
    • 2001 December 29, Derick Allsop, “Boltons nine men hit back to steal a point”, Daily Telegraph online:
      Four minutes of stoppage time were virtually up when Ricketts climbed to head in the equaliser from substitute Nicky Southalls centre.
  7. To move to a higher position on the social ladder.
  8. (botany) Of plants, to grow upwards by clinging to something.
Noun

Wikipedia climb (plural climbs)


  1. An act of climbing.
    • 2007, Nigel Shepherd, Complete Guide to Rope Techniques
      Make sure that you keep checking to see that everything remains safe throughout the climb.
  2. The act of getting to somewhere more elevated.
    • 1999, B. Keith Jones, The Roomie Do Me Blues
      I guess the room wasnt so bad, except for the climb to get there. The stairs were destined to be a serious health hazard.
  3. An upwards struggle
    • 1998 September 30, AP, “Worst May Lie Ahead For Asia, Report Warns”, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel:
      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


Definizione italiano>inglese climb


scalare
  to ascend, to go up
  To ascend; to go up.
arrampicare
  to ascend, to go up
  To ascend; to go up.
salire
apparire
arrampicarsi
arrampicata
ascendere
ascensione
ascesa
cavalcare
germogliare
inerpicarsi
montare
salita
scalata
scendere
sorgere
uscire

Altri significati:


Traduzione 'veloce'



scalare ,arrampicare ,salire ,apparire ,arrampicarsi


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