Definizione monolingua

climb

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.

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 dizionario 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:

(to) climb (a tree)

(intransitive) to practise the sport of climbing

to move by using the hands and feet

(transitive) To move (especially up and down something) by gripping with the hands and using the feet.

ascending (path)

(transitive) To mount; to move upwards on.

To mount to a high or little accessible place using feet and hands.

To move to a higher position on the social ladder.

(transitive) To scale; to get to the top of something.

(intransitive) To ascend; rise; to go up.

An upwards struggle

(intransitive) to jump high

An act of climbing.

clamber (over, up)

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

The act of getting to somewhere more elevated.

climb (a tree)

to mount, to move upwards on