Hypertext Webster Gateway: "climb"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Climb \Climb\ (kl[imac]m), v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Climbed}
(kl[imac]md), Obs. or Vulgar {Clomb} (kl[o^]m); p. pr. & vb.
n. {Climbing}.] [AS. climban; akin to OHG. chlimban, G. & D.
klimmen, Icel. kl[=i]fa, and E. cleave to adhere.]
1. To ascend or mount laboriously, esp. by use of the hands
and feet.

2. To ascend as if with effort; to rise to a higher point.

Black vapors climb aloft, and cloud the day.
--Dryden.

3. (Bot.) To ascend or creep upward by twining about a
support, or by attaching itself by tendrils, rootlets,
etc., to a support or upright surface.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

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

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Climb \Climb\, n.
The act of one who climbs; ascent by climbing. --Warburton.

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

climb
n 1: an upward slope or grade (as in a road); "the car couldn't
make the grade" [syn: {ascent}, {acclivity}, {rise}, {raise},
{upgrade}] [ant: {descent}]
2: an event that involves rising to a higher point (as in
altitude or temperature or intensity etc.) [syn: {climbing},
{mounting}]
3: the act of climbing something [syn: {mount}]
v 1: go upward with gradual or continuous progress; "Did you ever
climb up the hill behind your house?" [syn: {climb up},
{mount}, {go up}]
2: move with difficulty, by grasping
3: go up or advance; "Sales were climbing after prices were
lowered" [syn: {wax}, {mount}, {rise}] [ant: {wane}]
4: slope upward: "The path climbed all the way to the top of
the hill"
5: improve one's social status; "This young man knows how to
climb the social ladder"
6: increase in value or to a higher point; "prices climbed
steeply"; "the value of our house rose sharply last year"
[syn: {rise}, {go up}]


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