climbv.

Brit.

/klʌɪm/, U.S.

/klaɪm/

Inflections: Past tense and participle climbed

/klaɪmd/; archaic. clomb

/kləʊm/;

Forms: (From the ambiguity of the spelling it is often uncertain whether climbe, clymb, climb, clyme, in 15–16th centuries meant

/klɪm/ or

/klaɪm/, and whether clomb(e in 16–17th centuries meant

/klʌm/ or

/kləʊm/.) 1. Present stem.

α. Old English climban, Middle English climben, Middle English glymbe, Middle English–1500s clym, Middle English–1500s clymbe, Middle English–1500s clymme, Middle English–1600s climbe, Middle English– clim, 1500s–1600s climme, 1800s– clim /klɪm/. a1000 Solomon & Saturn 414 Leoht..clymmað on gecyndo.c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 428 He lette an heh climben [c1300 Otho clemben].1297 R. Gloucester's Chron. (1724) 527 Clerkes him made clim.c1440 York Myst. xxv. 424 Ȝone tre I will go too, and in it clyme [rhyme hym].1570 P. Levens Manipulus Vocabulorum sig. Lii/2 To Climme, scandere.1627 M. Drayton Battaile Agincourt 3 If we want ships, the waues or climme.1875 Lanc. Gloss. Clim, pa. t. clom.1875 W. D. Parish Dict. Sussex Dial. Clim. [So 1876 C. C. Robinson Gloss. Words Dial. Mid-Yorks., and Whitby Gloss., and in all northern dialects.]1883 W. H. Cope Gloss. Hampshire Words 1888 W. Somerset Word-bk. and B. Lowsley Gloss. Berks. Words & Phrases

β. Middle English clem, Middle English clembe, Middle English clemben, Middle English clemme. c1275 Laȝamon Brut 851 He lette clemben an heh.1489 W. Caxton tr. C. de Pisan Bk. Fayttes of Armes i. ix. 25 To clemme vp wyth cordes.1489 W. Caxton tr. C. de Pisan Bk. Fayttes of Armes ii. xxxv. 154 Cleminge up with ladders.c1500 Melusine (1895) 25 Clemme you vpon som tree.

γ. 1500s climbe, 1500s clyme, 1500s–1600s clime, 1500s– climb /klaɪm/. ?1518 Cocke Lorelles Bote sig. C.j^v Some one the shrowedes dyde clyme.1570 B. Googe tr. T. Kirchmeyer Popish Kingdome i. f. 2 Know that none can clime [rhyme deuine].1595 E. Spenser Amoretti xiii, in Amoretti & Epithalamion sig. A8 She to heauen may clime.1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics iii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 102 The Nuptial time Approaches for the stately Steed to climb.

2. Past tense.

α. Old English–1800s clamb, Middle English clamben (plural), Middle English–1500s clam, Middle English–1500s clamme, 1500s clame. 1297 R. Gloucester's Chron. (1724) 333 Þe kyng by an laddre to þe ssyp clam.c1384 G. Chaucer Hous of Fame iii. 1061 And clamben vp on other fast.a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 6361 He clamb mont synai.1481 W. Caxton tr. Hist. Reynard Fox (1970) 82 Tho clamme he vpon on hye tree.1525 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles II. li. 183 The men of armes..clame vp the dykes.1530 W. Tyndale Pract. Prelates sig. Bvi^v Then the deacons..clam vp therunto.1561 T. Norton & T. Sackville Gorboduc (1847) i. i. 110 He clamme, into the flamyng carte.1790 R. Burns in J. Johnson Scots Musical Museum III. 269 We clamb the hill the gither.1825 J. Neal Brother Jonathan I. 164 Ye..never clamb a tree.

β. (a) plural Old English clumbon, Middle English clombe, Middle English clomben, Middle English clomme, Middle English clommen, Middle English cloumbe, Middle English cloumben, Middle English clumben; (b) singular Middle English clomb (klʊm, klʌm), Middle English clombe. a1123 Anglo-Saxon Chron. anno 1070 Hi..clumben upp to the halge rode.c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 4697 Ouer þene wal heo clumben [c1300 Otho iclemde].1297 R. Gloucester's Chron. (1724) 410 Myd laudren hii clommen [1448 MS. Coll. Arms With laddre vp they clombe].c1384 G. Chaucer Hous of Fame iii. 28 Vp I clombe [v.r. clam, clambe] with alle payne.a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Trin. Cambr.) l. 13459 Ihesus clomb [Vesp. clamb] vp into a hille.c1405 (c1390) G. Chaucer Miller's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 450 Vp they clomben [v.r. clumben, clumbe] alle thre.c1420 Chron. Vilod. 932 He clomb vp by a walle.

γ. 1500s–1800s clombe, 1600s clome, 1600s– clomb /kləʊm/. 1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene iii. iv. sig. Ff4 She to her wagon clombe; clombe all the rest.1619 H. Hutton Follie's Anat. sig. A5 My lame-legd Muse, nere clome Pernassus.1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Æneis viii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 442 He clomb, with eager haste, th' Aerial height.1768 A. Tucker Light of Nature Pursued II. ii. 331 We clomb a high pinacle.1805 W. Wordsworth Waggoner i. 102 As when he clomb from Rydal-Mere.1813 W. Scott Rokeby iii. iv. 105 Now clombe the rocks projecting high.1833 Ld. Tennyson Poems 84 Hither..she clomb [rhyme dome].

δ. Middle English clemde, Middle English–1500s clymed, 1500s climed, 1500s clymbd, 1500s clymmed, 1500s– climbed /klaɪmd/. c1275 Laȝamon Brut 21439 Ȝe clemde to hehȝe vppen þisse hulle.c1305 St. Kenelm 123 in Early Eng. Poems & Lives Saints (1862) 51 He clemde vpon þis treo.a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Gött.) l. 6361 He clymed on mont synay. 1480 [see sense 1a]. 1535 Bible (Coverdale) 1 Chron. xii. A Then Ioab..clymmed vp first.1539 Bible (Great) Luke xix. 4 He clymed [1611 climed] vp into a wylde fygge tree to see him.1550 J. Heywood Dialogue Prouerbes Eng. Tongue (new ed.) i. xii. sig. Cvi He that neuer clymbde, neuer fell.1611 Bible (King James) 1 Sam. xiv. 13 And Ionathan climed vp vpon his hands, and vpon his feete.

3. Past participle.

α. Old English–Middle English clumben, Middle English clommbyn, Middle English cloumben, Middle English clumbyn, Middle English iclumben, 1500s clummin (Scottish). c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1978) l. 10694 Þu were i-clumben [c1300 Otho iclemde] haȝe.c1374 G. Chaucer tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. ii. vii. 57 Rome ne hadde nat ȝitte..cloumben ouer þe mountaigne.c1430 Pilgr. Lyf Manhode (1869) iv. lxii. 205 An old oon þat was clumben..vp on my bed.1489 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (Adv.) x. 611 Halff ye craig yai clumbyn [1487 St. John's Cambr. clummyn] had.1533 J. Bellenden tr. Livy Hist. Rome (1822) v. 472 The Gaule that wes clummin to the hicht of the Capitoll.c1540 (?a1400) Destr. Troy 13677 Wen a mon is..Clommbyn all þe Clif.

β. Middle English clombe, Middle English cloumbe, Middle English clumb, Middle English clumbe, Middle English–1500s clom, Middle English–1500s clome, Middle English–1500s (1600s–1800s regional) clum /klʌm/. c1386 G. Chaucer Man of Law's Prol. 12 Phebus..Degrees was five and fourty clombe on hight [v.r. iclombe, clome].1554 W. Turner in J. Strype Eccl. Memorials (1721) III. xviii. 149 One is now clom up so high.

γ. 1500s–1600s cloame, 1500s–1600s clome, 1500s– clomb /kləʊm/, 1500s– clombe. ?1606 M. Drayton Ode ix, in Poemes sig. C2^v Parnassus is not clome By euery such mome.1610 W. Baldwin et al. Variable Fortune Princes (rev. ed.) in J. Higgins et al. Mirour for Magistrates (new ed.) 534 Looking downe whence lately I was cloame [rhyme roame].1678 R. Cudworth True Intellect. Syst. Universe i. v. 727 To have Clombe up.1802 S. T. Coleridge Sibylline Leaves II. 189 'Twas Frederic, who behind my chair had clomb [rhyme home].1850 W. Wordsworth Prelude iv. 85 A dreary moor Was crossed, a bare ridge clomb.1866 Cornhill Mag. Mar. 309 The sun has just climbed—I would write clombe an I dared.

δ. 1500s clymmen (irregular). 1535 Bible (Coverdale) Jer. ix. 21 Deeth is clymmen up in at oure wyndowes.

ε. Middle English iclemd, 1500s clymmed, 1500s– climbed, 1600s climed. c1275 Laȝamon Brut 21432 [Þou] þe were iclemde to heȝe.1544 R. Tracy Supplycacion to Kynge Henry VIII sig. Diiij^v He..hathe clymmed vp and affended by a nother waye.a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 2 (1623) iv. ix. 7 On a Bricke wall haue I climb'd into this Garden.1678 Young Man's Calling 274 Having climed one step..must presently clime another.1847 Ld. Tennyson Princess Prol. 6 He had climb'd across the spikes.

Etymology: Old English climb-an , clamb (clǫmb ), clumbon , clumben , corresponding to Old High German chlimban , Middle High German klimben , klimmen , Middle Dutch, Middle Low German, Dutch, Low German, German klimmen < Wwest German *klimban . Believed to be a nasalized form of Germanic *klîƀan (see cleave v.²), the m being perhaps originally a characteristic of the present stem, which has been extended to the other parts, and has carried the verb from the ablaut series of î, ai, i, into that of im, am, um. Hence the sense-development ‘cleave, adhere to, get up by clinging or adhering’; for which compare Old English clífan to cleave, cling, Middle Dutch clîven to cleave, stick, also to climb, Old Norse klífa and Middle English clīven to climb. In all the modern languages the b is lost in pronunciation, and in most in spelling also; but in English, although climme, clime, formerly prevailed, the spelling now recognized is climb. In most of the dialects the i is short, clim; but the standard language, like east midland and eastern, has the i long /klaɪm/, the vowel being lengthened before mb, apparently as before nd in bind, find, etc. (But clear evidence of the long vowel has not been found before the 16th cent.) The original strong inflections also remain dialectally (notably in Scottish clim, clam, clum), but in the south, weak forms appeared already in 13th cent., and prevail in 16th cent. prose; no others occur in Shakespeare or in the Bible of 1611. But the Elizabethan archaists affected a past tense and participle clome, cloame, clōmbe, which they appear to have taken from Chaucer or Lydgate, and mistakenly pronounced with long ō. (In the Middle English clomb(e, o was either short, as a variant of clamb, or more usually a graphic expedient for u before m; and in the dialects in which clom has come down the o is short.) From Spenser and his contemporaries, clōmb passed into later poetry, and occasionally appears in prose, especially in writers familiar with the strong clam, clom, or clum in dialect use.

Significations.

a. intransitive. To raise oneself by grasping or clinging, or by the aid of hands and feet; ‘to mount by means of some hold or footing’ (Johnson); to creep up; to ascend, come, or go up, a perpendicular or steep place. Often with up.

ΚΠ

a1123 Anglo-Saxon Chron. (Laud) anno 1070 Clumben upp to þe stepel.

?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 126 Vs to forbisne þet we schule..climben wið him on hulles.

c1320 tr. J. Bonaventura Medit. (Harl.) 630 Twey enmyes on hem smartly gun glymbe [Bodl. MS. climbe].

a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) II. xviii. xxii. 1161 Þey [sc. wild goats] clymbeþ vpon harde cragges.

1480 W. Caxton Chron. Eng. lxvi. 49 Clymed vnto the mount.

?c1510 tr. Newe Landes & People founde by Kynge of Portyngale sig. Bi^v To clyme vp in to the tree to gather the frutes.

1513 G. Douglas in tr. Virgil Æneid ii. v. [iv]. Argt. How the hors clame our the wallis of stone.

1550 J. Heywood Dialogue Prouerbes Eng. Tongue (new ed.) i. xii. sig. Cvi He that neuer clymbde, neuer fell.

1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost iv. 191 As a Thief..In at the window climbes .

1718 Lady M. W. Montagu Let. 31 July (1965) I. 417 To climb to the top of it.

1816 W. Scott Antiquary I. vii. 165 I'll climb up the cliff again.

b. to climb down: to descend by the same means; also figurative (in recent colloquial usage) to retreat from a position taken up, abate one's claims, etc.

ΘΚΠ

the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > downward motion > move downwards [verb (intransitive)] > climb down

to climb downa1400

shinny1888

the mind > emotion > humility > be humble [verb (intransitive)] > become humble

to come downa1382

meeka1400

meekena1500

let fall one's crest1531

to come (also get) off one's perch1568

to come down a peg1589

lower1837

to come off the roof1883

to climb down1887

deflate1912

to come, etc., off one's high horse1920

a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 2238 We..Freli may climb [Gött. climbe, Fairf. clymbe] vp and dun.

c1425 Seven Sag. (P.) 973 That knave..clam adoune fra bough to boghe.

1887 Morley in Daily News 7 July 5/8 The first words that were said to us when we got there were—‘We hope you have not come to climb down’..Well, we had not come to climb down.

1889 Daily News Sept. 5 Mr. Burns expressed his belief that the dock directors were climbing down.

a. transitive. To ascend (anything steep) by hands and feet, creep up; to get to the top or summit of; to mount, scale.

ΘΚΠ

the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > upward movement > ascend (something) [verb (transitive)] > climb up or scale > climb by clasping with legs and arms

climbc1275

swarm15..

grapple1598

swarvea1650

swarm1668

shin1891

leg1893

c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1978) l. 10401 [The fox] wild-scipe climbið [c1300 Otho clembeþ].

1487 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (St. John's Cambr.) x. 63 Thai stoutly clam [1489 Adv. clamb] the hill.

1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection Pref. ✠ ii^v To clyme this braunche.

1579 Cyuile & Vncyuile Life (new ed.) sig. Fii^v It were great pittie to see a tall fellow to clyme a Gibbet.

1611 Bible (King James) Joel ii. 7 They shall clime the wall like men of warre.

1738 J. Wesley Coll. Psalms & Hymns (new ed.) cxlvii Let the shrill Birds..climb the Morning Sky.

1815 Ld. Byron Let. 25 Dec. in Lett. & Jrnls. (1830) II. 323 We forded the river, and clomb the high hill.

1838 J. P. Nichol Archit. Heavens (1851) 131 He who had clomb heights so lofty.

1862 J. Ruskin Munera Pulveris (1880) 92 Its summit in the clouds, invisible, and not to be climbed.

b. To reach or attain (a point) by this action.

ΘΚΠ

the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > upward movement > ascend (something) [verb (transitive)] > climb up or scale > reach by climbing

climb1580

1580 J. Lyly Euphues & his Eng. (new ed.) f. 114^v Imagine not that shining like the Sunne in earth, yea shall climbe the Sunne in heauen.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Two Gentlemen of Verona (1623) ii. iv. 179 I must climbe her window.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Two Gentlemen of Verona (1623) iii. i. 115 Her chamber is aloft..And built so sheluing, that one cannot climbe it.

1844 A. B. Welby Poems (1867) 70 I've climbed the summit of some breezy hill.

3. Said of the sun, moon, etc.: To mount slowly upwards; to move towards the zenith.

a. intransitive.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the universe > heavenly body > movement of heavenly bodies > move [verb (intransitive)] > rise > towards zenith

climba1400

ascendc1400

mount1594

speel1718

a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Trin. Cambr.) l. 16267 To clymbe aboue þe cloudes alle: þe son shal haue myȝt.

c1400 ( G. Chaucer Treat. Astrolabe (Cambr. Dd.3.53) (1872) ii. §12. 24 As the sonne clymbith vppere & vppere.

1798 S. T. Coleridge Anc. Marinere iii, in W. Wordsworth & S. T. Coleridge Lyrical Ballads 19 While clombe above the Eastern bar The horned Moon.

1842 Ld. Tennyson Ulysses in Poems (new ed.) II. 90 The long day wanes: the slow moon climbs.

1883 R. L. Stevenson Treasure Island iv. xxi. 168 The sun had climbed above our girdle of trees.

b. transitive.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the universe > heavenly body > movement of heavenly bodies > move [verb (transitive)] > rise

climba1400

a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 16267 To climbe þe cludes all þe sunn sal haf þe might.

1799 T. Campbell Pleasures of Hope & Other Poems i. 289 Oft when yon moon has climb'd the midnight sky.

1870 W. C. Bryant tr. Homer Iliad I. vii. 232 The sun began to climb the heavens.

4. Of plants: to creep up by the aid of tendrils or by twining.

a. intransitive.

ΘΚΠ

the world > plants > by growth or development > defined by habit > grow in a specific manner [verb (intransitive)] > climb, creep, or spread

spreadc1300

runc1425

creep1530

ramp1578

clamber1601

couch1601

crawl1637

gad1638

climb1796

ramble1858

1796 H. Hunter tr. J.-H. B. de Saint-Pierre Stud. Nature (1799) II. 231 The branches..embrace all the surrounding trees, and climb to the height of more than sixteen feet.

1882 S. H. Vines tr. J. von Sachs Text-bk. Bot. (ed. 2) 870 The physiological function of tendrils is to take hold of supports..in order to allow the slender-stemmed plant which is furnished with them to climb up.

1884 F. O. Bower & D. H. Scott tr. H. A. de Bary Compar. Anat. Phanerogams & Ferns 583 Species which do not climb.

b. transitive.

ΘΚΠ

the world > plants > by growth or development > defined by habit > grow in a specific manner [verb (transitive)] > climb

creep1726

climb1804

clamber1887

1804 J. Grahame Sabbath 286 The blossoming pea..climbs the rust-worn bars.

5. transferred. Of other things: To rise, ascend, force its way upward: either with gradual motion, like smoke, or as the effect of continuous growth. Implying a gradual and continued rising.

a. intransitive. Also spec. (see quots.), and in causative sense.

ΘΚΠ

the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > upward movement > rise or go up [verb (intransitive)] > gradually

climba1000

the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > upward movement > rise or go up [verb (intransitive)] > climb

climba1000

clavera1250

clive1340

styc1380

speel1513

ramp1523

scalea1547

climber1573

stem1577

upclimb1845

grimp1893

the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > upward movement > ascend (something) [verb (transitive)] > climb up or scale

climba1000

speel1571

scale1579

upclimb1582

scana1599

scance1714

society > travel > aspects of travel > travel in specific course or direction > direct (one's course, steps, etc.) [verb (transitive)] > go up (a hill, etc.)

climba1000

ascendc1400

breast1718

the world > animals > birds > flight > [verb (intransitive)] > rise higher

climb1874

the world > movement > progressive motion > moving with current of air or water > motion in the air > move in the air [verb (intransitive)] > fly (as) with wings > fly up

upwinda1325

mountc1350

upfly1557

flurr1681

climb1874

upwing1885

society > travel > air or space travel > action of flying (in) aircraft > specific flying operations or procedures > [verb (intransitive)] > ascend or gain height

to go (climb, etc.) upstairs1908

climb1915

angel1941

society > travel > air or space travel > action of flying (in) aircraft > specific flying operations or procedures > [verb (transitive)] > cause to ascend

climb1919

a1000 Solomon & Saturn 414 Leoht..clymmað on gecyndo.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Cymbeline (1623) v. vi. 478 Let our crooked Smoakes climbe to their Nostrils.

1807 J. Barlow Columbiad i. 40 The Stream ungovernable..Climbs, combs tempestuous.

1832 Ld. Tennyson Lotos-eaters ii, in Poems (new ed.) 109 Upclomb the shadowy pine above the woven copse.

1858 G. MacDonald Phantastes 112 The colour floated abroad..and clomb, and spread.

1874 J. W. Long Amer. Wild-fowl Shooting 245 They..can ‘climb’ out of gun-shot (as the hunters term their flying upwards when frightened at the appearance of danger beneath them) faster than most wild-fowl.

1915 Sphere 28 Aug. 220/2 One aeroplane has already climbed to the same level as the airship.

1919 Parl. Papers X. 49 It is most economical to climb an aeroplane in the attitude corresponding to the maximum value of the lift-drag ratio.

b. transitive.

ΘΚΠ

the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > upward movement > ascend (something) [verb (transitive)] > gradually

climbc1400

c1400 (?c1380) Cleanness (1920) l. 405 For hit [þe flod] clam vche a clyffe cubites fyftene.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Othello (1622) ii. i. 188 Let the labouring Barke clime hills of seas.

1820 P. B. Shelley Prometheus Unbound i. i. 25 The Ocean's purple waves, Climbing the land.

6. transferred. To slope upward; to form, or be situated on, an ascent, so that the successive parts occupy successively higher points.

a. intransitive.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > relative position > inclination > incline or be oblique [verb (intransitive)] > slope > upwards

risea1398

climba1400

ascend1832

a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 9948 A tron of iuor graid..Climband vp wit seuen pass.

1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost xi. 119 On the East side of the Garden place, Where entrance up from Eden easiest climbes .

1834 E. Bulwer-Lytton Last Days of Pompeii I. i. v. 97 The woods and vineyards..then clomb half way up the ascent.

b. transitive.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > relative position > inclination > incline [verb (transitive)] > place in a sloping position > be situated on upward slope

climb1576

1576 W. Lambarde Perambulation of Kent 165 It [sc. Newendene] standeth in the valley, and yet clymeth the hill.

7. figurative.

a. intransitive. To rise by continued effort in dignity, rank, or state; to ascend or aspire upward in the intellectual, moral, or social scale.

ΘΚΠ

society > society and the community > social class > be ranked socially [verb (intransitive)] > climb socially

climba1240

risec1390

ascend1751

to rise from the ranks1798

social climb1929

the world > action or operation > prosperity > advancement or progress > advance, progress, or develop [verb (intransitive)] > rise in prosperity, power, or rank

wax971

climba1240

forthgoa1325

arise1340

risec1390

increasea1425

to come upa1475

raise1490

clamber1576

to make one's way1579

grow1622

to get on (also up) in the world1791

a1240 Lofsong in Cott. Hom. 211 Ich ham heie iclumben wið þis ilke bone.

a1340 R. Rolle Psalter xxxvi. 21 Þe heghere þai klymbe in honurs and riches.

c1386 G. Chaucer Monk's Tale 716 Syn in astaat thou clombe were so hye.

a1400–50 Alexander 3353 To clym to kyngs astate.

1530 W. Tyndale Pract. Prelates sig. Bvi^v When y^e bishopes office began..to be honorable, then the deacons..clam vp therunto.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 3 (1623) iv. viii. 62 Fearelesse minds clyme soonest vnto Crowns.

1658 T. Burton Diary (1828) II. 465 The blessing..which we ever climbed at, was mercy, truth, righteousness, and peace.

1845 S. Austin tr. L. von Ranke Hist. Reformation in Germany (ed. 2) I. 89 At the same time Poland..climbed to the highest pinnacle of power she ever possessed.

b. Said of things personified or treated as actors.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > prosperity > advancement or progress > advance, progress, or develop [verb (intransitive)]

climbc1400

ascendc1550

soar1597

progress1612

develop1744

advance1875

bull1928

c1400 Rom. Rose 3911 Leccherie hath clombe so hye, That almoost blered is myn yhe.

a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1590) ii. xix. sig. Bb1^v Whose courage was apt to clime ouer any daunger.

1642 T. Fuller Holy State v. xviii. 430 When ambition hath caught hold on pretended religion, how fast will it climbe?

1823 C. Lamb On Some of Old Actors (new ed.) in Elia 312 You could see the first dawn of an idea stealing slowly over his countenance, climbing up by little and little.

c. transitive.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > endeavour > attempt [verb (transitive)] > attempt to obtain or attain

to found toOE

keepc1000

seekc1000

throwa1393

minta1400

intentc1450

to try for1534

sue1548

attempt?c1550

reachc1571

assay1595

put1596

to lay in for1599

climba1616

captate1628

court1639

obseek1646

solicit1717

to make a bid for1885

society > society and the community > social class > accord social rank to [verb (transitive)] > elevate or raise to a higher position > by continued effort

climba1616

a1616 W. Shakespeare Timon of Athens (1623) i. i. 77 One man..Bowing his head against the steepy Mount To climbe his happinesse.

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单词	climb
释义	climbn. Brit. /klʌɪm/, U.S. /klaɪm/ Forms: 1500s clime, 1600s climbe, 1700s– climb. Etymology: < climb v. 1. The act of climbing; a place where one must climb; an ascent. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > upward movement > [noun] > climbing or scaling > an act of climb1577 upclimb1920 society > travel > means of travel > route or way > way, passage, or means of access to a place > [noun] > upwards upgang971 ascension1447 upcome1487 upcoming1487 climb1577 ascent1611 upgo1855 raise1877 1577 R. Holinshed Hist. Eng. 55/2 in Chron. I On three sydes there of, the clime is very steepe and headlong. 1577 R. Holinshed Chron. II. 1640/1 The places of the Wall, where the clime was most easie. 1619 E. M. Bolton tr. Florus Rom. Hist. iii. iii. 254 At the very climbe of the Alps. 1816 M. Keating Trav. Eur. & Afr. I. 75 The climb (for it cannot be called a walk) would..be too fatiguing. 2. Of aircraft: the ascent; also, the rate of ascent. Also attributive. ΘΚΠ society > travel > air or space travel > action of flying (in) aircraft > specific flying operations or procedures > [noun] > ascent or rate of ascent climb1915 1915 F. A. Talbot Aeroplanes & Dirigibles xii. 162 Daring sweeps, startling wheels..and remarkable climbs are carried out. 1916 H. Barber Aeroplane Speaks 8 The essentials for Climb or quick ascent and for Speed are diametrically opposed. 1918 W. E. Dommett Dict. Aircraft 14 The time taken by an aircraft to rise each 1,000 ft. is known as ‘the climb’. 1934 Times 26 June (Air Suppl.) p. xx/2 To absorb the maximum power of the engine during take-off, climb, and level flight. 1940 N. Monks Squadrons Up! viii. 215 Climb Indicator, showing thousands of feet per minute. 3. A ‘cat’ burglary; so at the climb: engaged in such burglaries. Thieves' slang. Cf. climber n. 5, climbing n. 2. ΚΠ 1931 A. R. L. Gardner Prisoner at Bar v. 90 High-class burglars not ‘at the climb’ usually work in partnership with a chosen pal. 1960 Observer 25 Dec. 7/6 Climbers were much commoner than creeps. ‘At the climb’ was the modern expression... They would still go up by the soil pipe because that was the solidest. 1960 Observer 25 Dec. 7/6 While the family were at dinner was the best time for an uninterrupted climb. Compounds climb-down n. a descent; figurative a withdrawal, esp. with ignominy, from a position taken up; abandonment of a declared position. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > humility > [noun] > becoming humble climb-down1887 1887 Globe 10 Dec. 3/4 The important incident of the week..is the climb-down of Mr. Chaplin. 1944 R. C. K. Ensor Miniature Hist. War 12 He confronted a bewildered Europe with a threat of instant battle, only averted by the climb-down of France and Great Britain at Munich. 1960 Guardian 9 July 5/5 The proposal inevitably appears as a climb-down in face of Soviet pressure. 1961 A. Wilson Old Men at Zoo iii. 128 The French have sent a tremendous climbdown note. † climb-fall adj. Obsolete characterized by climbs and falls. ΚΠ a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1593) i. sig. H2^v Free of proud feares, braue begg'ry, smiling strife Of clime-fall Court. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online March 2022). climbv. Brit. /klʌɪm/, U.S. /klaɪm/ Inflections: Past tense and participle climbed /klaɪmd/; archaic. clomb /kləʊm/; Forms: (From the ambiguity of the spelling it is often uncertain whether climbe, clymb, climb, clyme, in 15–16th centuries meant /klɪm/ or /klaɪm/, and whether clomb(e in 16–17th centuries meant /klʌm/ or /kləʊm/.) 1. Present stem. α. Old English climban, Middle English climben, Middle English glymbe, Middle English–1500s clym, Middle English–1500s clymbe, Middle English–1500s clymme, Middle English–1600s climbe, Middle English– clim, 1500s–1600s climme, 1800s– clim /klɪm/. a1000 Solomon & Saturn 414 Leoht..clymmað on gecyndo.c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 428 He lette an heh climben [c1300 Otho clemben].1297 R. Gloucester's Chron. (1724) 527 Clerkes him made clim.c1440 York Myst. xxv. 424 Ȝone tre I will go too, and in it clyme [rhyme hym].1570 P. Levens Manipulus Vocabulorum sig. Lii/2 To Climme, scandere.1627 M. Drayton Battaile Agincourt 3 If we want ships, the waues or climme.1875 Lanc. Gloss. Clim, pa. t. clom.1875 W. D. Parish Dict. Sussex Dial. Clim. [So 1876 C. C. Robinson Gloss. Words Dial. Mid-Yorks., and Whitby Gloss., and in all northern dialects.]1883 W. H. Cope Gloss. Hampshire Words 1888 W. Somerset Word-bk. and B. Lowsley Gloss. Berks. Words & Phrases β. Middle English clem, Middle English clembe, Middle English clemben, Middle English clemme. c1275 Laȝamon Brut 851 He lette clemben an heh.1489 W. Caxton tr. C. de Pisan Bk. Fayttes of Armes i. ix. 25 To clemme vp wyth cordes.1489 W. Caxton tr. C. de Pisan Bk. Fayttes of Armes ii. xxxv. 154 Cleminge up with ladders.c1500 Melusine (1895) 25 Clemme you vpon som tree. γ. 1500s climbe, 1500s clyme, 1500s–1600s clime, 1500s– climb /klaɪm/. ?1518 Cocke Lorelles Bote sig. C.j^v Some one the shrowedes dyde clyme.1570 B. Googe tr. T. Kirchmeyer Popish Kingdome i. f. 2 Know that none can clime [rhyme deuine].1595 E. Spenser Amoretti xiii, in Amoretti & Epithalamion sig. A8 She to heauen may clime.1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics iii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 102 The Nuptial time Approaches for the stately Steed to climb. 2. Past tense. α. Old English–1800s clamb, Middle English clamben (plural), Middle English–1500s clam, Middle English–1500s clamme, 1500s clame. 1297 R. Gloucester's Chron. (1724) 333 Þe kyng by an laddre to þe ssyp clam.c1384 G. Chaucer Hous of Fame iii. 1061 And clamben vp on other fast.a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 6361 He clamb mont synai.1481 W. Caxton tr. Hist. Reynard Fox (1970) 82 Tho clamme he vpon on hye tree.1525 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles II. li. 183 The men of armes..clame vp the dykes.1530 W. Tyndale Pract. Prelates sig. Bvi^v Then the deacons..clam vp therunto.1561 T. Norton & T. Sackville Gorboduc (1847) i. i. 110 He clamme, into the flamyng carte.1790 R. Burns in J. Johnson Scots Musical Museum III. 269 We clamb the hill the gither.1825 J. Neal Brother Jonathan I. 164 Ye..never clamb a tree. β. (a) plural Old English clumbon, Middle English clombe, Middle English clomben, Middle English clomme, Middle English clommen, Middle English cloumbe, Middle English cloumben, Middle English clumben; (b) singular Middle English clomb (klʊm, klʌm), Middle English clombe. a1123 Anglo-Saxon Chron. anno 1070 Hi..clumben upp to the halge rode.c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 4697 Ouer þene wal heo clumben [c1300 Otho iclemde].1297 R. Gloucester's Chron. (1724) 410 Myd laudren hii clommen [1448 MS. Coll. Arms With laddre vp they clombe].c1384 G. Chaucer Hous of Fame iii. 28 Vp I clombe [v.r. clam, clambe] with alle payne.a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Trin. Cambr.) l. 13459 Ihesus clomb [Vesp. clamb] vp into a hille.c1405 (c1390) G. Chaucer Miller's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 450 Vp they clomben [v.r. clumben, clumbe] alle thre.c1420 Chron. Vilod. 932 He clomb vp by a walle. γ. 1500s–1800s clombe, 1600s clome, 1600s– clomb /kləʊm/. 1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene iii. iv. sig. Ff4 She to her wagon clombe; clombe all the rest.1619 H. Hutton Follie's Anat. sig. A5 My lame-legd Muse, nere clome Pernassus.1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Æneis viii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 442 He clomb, with eager haste, th' Aerial height.1768 A. Tucker Light of Nature Pursued II. ii. 331 We clomb a high pinacle.1805 W. Wordsworth Waggoner i. 102 As when he clomb from Rydal-Mere.1813 W. Scott Rokeby iii. iv. 105 Now clombe the rocks projecting high.1833 Ld. Tennyson Poems 84 Hither..she clomb [rhyme dome]. δ. Middle English clemde, Middle English–1500s clymed, 1500s climed, 1500s clymbd, 1500s clymmed, 1500s– climbed /klaɪmd/. c1275 Laȝamon Brut 21439 Ȝe clemde to hehȝe vppen þisse hulle.c1305 St. Kenelm 123 in Early Eng. Poems & Lives Saints (1862) 51 He clemde vpon þis treo.a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Gött.) l. 6361 He clymed on mont synay. 1480 [see sense 1a]. 1535 Bible (Coverdale) 1 Chron. xii. A Then Ioab..clymmed vp first.1539 Bible (Great) Luke xix. 4 He clymed [1611 climed] vp into a wylde fygge tree to see him.1550 J. Heywood Dialogue Prouerbes Eng. Tongue (new ed.) i. xii. sig. Cvi He that neuer clymbde, neuer fell.1611 Bible (King James) 1 Sam. xiv. 13 And Ionathan climed vp vpon his hands, and vpon his feete. 3. Past participle. α. Old English–Middle English clumben, Middle English clommbyn, Middle English cloumben, Middle English clumbyn, Middle English iclumben, 1500s clummin (Scottish). c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1978) l. 10694 Þu were i-clumben [c1300 Otho iclemde] haȝe.c1374 G. Chaucer tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. ii. vii. 57 Rome ne hadde nat ȝitte..cloumben ouer þe mountaigne.c1430 Pilgr. Lyf Manhode (1869) iv. lxii. 205 An old oon þat was clumben..vp on my bed.1489 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (Adv.) x. 611 Halff ye craig yai clumbyn [1487 St. John's Cambr. clummyn] had.1533 J. Bellenden tr. Livy Hist. Rome (1822) v. 472 The Gaule that wes clummin to the hicht of the Capitoll.c1540 (?a1400) Destr. Troy 13677 Wen a mon is..Clommbyn all þe Clif. β. Middle English clombe, Middle English cloumbe, Middle English clumb, Middle English clumbe, Middle English–1500s clom, Middle English–1500s clome, Middle English–1500s (1600s–1800s regional) clum /klʌm/. c1386 G. Chaucer Man of Law's Prol. 12 Phebus..Degrees was five and fourty clombe on hight [v.r. iclombe, clome].1554 W. Turner in J. Strype Eccl. Memorials (1721) III. xviii. 149 One is now clom up so high. γ. 1500s–1600s cloame, 1500s–1600s clome, 1500s– clomb /kləʊm/, 1500s– clombe. ?1606 M. Drayton Ode ix, in Poemes sig. C2^v Parnassus is not clome By euery such mome.1610 W. Baldwin et al. Variable Fortune Princes (rev. ed.) in J. Higgins et al. Mirour for Magistrates (new ed.) 534 Looking downe whence lately I was cloame [rhyme roame].1678 R. Cudworth True Intellect. Syst. Universe i. v. 727 To have Clombe up.1802 S. T. Coleridge Sibylline Leaves II. 189 'Twas Frederic, who behind my chair had clomb [rhyme home].1850 W. Wordsworth Prelude iv. 85 A dreary moor Was crossed, a bare ridge clomb.1866 Cornhill Mag. Mar. 309 The sun has just climbed—I would write clombe an I dared. δ. 1500s clymmen (irregular). 1535 Bible (Coverdale) Jer. ix. 21 Deeth is clymmen up in at oure wyndowes. ε. Middle English iclemd, 1500s clymmed, 1500s– climbed, 1600s climed. c1275 Laȝamon Brut 21432 [Þou] þe were iclemde to heȝe.1544 R. Tracy Supplycacion to Kynge Henry VIII sig. Diiij^v He..hathe clymmed vp and affended by a nother waye.a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 2 (1623) iv. ix. 7 On a Bricke wall haue I climb'd into this Garden.1678 Young Man's Calling 274 Having climed one step..must presently clime another.1847 Ld. Tennyson Princess Prol. 6 He had climb'd across the spikes. Etymology: Old English climb-an , clamb (clǫmb ), clumbon , clumben , corresponding to Old High German chlimban , Middle High German klimben , klimmen , Middle Dutch, Middle Low German, Dutch, Low German, German klimmen < Wwest German klimban . Believed to be a nasalized form of Germanic klîƀan (see cleave v.²), the m being perhaps originally a characteristic of the present stem, which has been extended to the other parts, and has carried the verb from the ablaut series of î, ai, i, into that of im, am, um. Hence the sense-development ‘cleave, adhere to, get up by clinging or adhering’; for which compare Old English clífan to cleave, cling, Middle Dutch clîven to cleave, stick, also to climb, Old Norse klífa and Middle English clīven to climb. In all the modern languages the b is lost in pronunciation, and in most in spelling also; but in English, although climme, clime, formerly prevailed, the spelling now recognized is climb. In most of the dialects the i is short, clim; but the standard language, like east midland and eastern, has the i long /klaɪm/, the vowel being lengthened before mb, apparently as before nd in bind, find, etc. (But clear evidence of the long vowel has not been found before the 16th cent.) The original strong inflections also remain dialectally (notably in Scottish clim, clam, clum), but in the south, weak forms appeared already in 13th cent., and prevail in 16th cent. prose; no others occur in Shakespeare or in the Bible of 1611. But the Elizabethan archaists affected a past tense and participle clome, cloame, clōmbe, which they appear to have taken from Chaucer or Lydgate, and mistakenly pronounced with long ō. (In the Middle English clomb(e, o was either short, as a variant of clamb, or more usually a graphic expedient for u before m; and in the dialects in which clom has come down the o is short.) From Spenser and his contemporaries, clōmb passed into later poetry, and occasionally appears in prose, especially in writers familiar with the strong clam, clom, or clum in dialect use. Significations. 1. a. intransitive. To raise oneself by grasping or clinging, or by the aid of hands and feet; ‘to mount by means of some hold or footing’ (Johnson); to creep up; to ascend, come, or go up, a perpendicular or steep place. Often with up. ΚΠ a1123 Anglo-Saxon Chron. (Laud) anno 1070 Clumben upp to þe stepel. ?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 126 Vs to forbisne þet we schule..climben wið him on hulles. c1320 tr. J. Bonaventura Medit. (Harl.) 630 Twey enmyes on hem smartly gun glymbe [Bodl. MS. climbe]. a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) II. xviii. xxii. 1161 Þey [sc. wild goats] clymbeþ vpon harde cragges. 1480 W. Caxton Chron. Eng. lxvi. 49 Clymed vnto the mount. ?c1510 tr. Newe Landes & People founde by Kynge of Portyngale sig. Bi^v To clyme vp in to the tree to gather the frutes. 1513 G. Douglas in tr. Virgil Æneid ii. v. [iv]. Argt. How the hors clame our the wallis of stone. 1550 J. Heywood Dialogue Prouerbes Eng. Tongue (new ed.) i. xii. sig. Cvi He that neuer clymbde, neuer fell. 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost iv. 191 As a Thief..In at the window climbes . View more context for this quotation 1718 Lady M. W. Montagu Let. 31 July (1965) I. 417 To climb to the top of it. 1816 W. Scott Antiquary I. vii. 165 I'll climb up the cliff again. b. to climb down: to descend by the same means; also figurative (in recent colloquial usage) to retreat from a position taken up, abate one's claims, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > downward motion > move downwards [verb (intransitive)] > climb down to climb downa1400 shinny1888 the mind > emotion > humility > be humble [verb (intransitive)] > become humble to come downa1382 meeka1400 meekena1500 let fall one's crest1531 to come (also get) off one's perch1568 to come down a peg1589 lower1837 to come off the roof1883 to climb down1887 deflate1912 to come, etc., off one's high horse1920 a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 2238 We..Freli may climb [Gött. climbe, Fairf. clymbe] vp and dun. c1425 Seven Sag. (P.) 973 That knave..clam adoune fra bough to boghe. 1887 Morley in Daily News 7 July 5/8 The first words that were said to us when we got there were—‘We hope you have not come to climb down’..Well, we had not come to climb down. 1889 Daily News Sept. 5 Mr. Burns expressed his belief that the dock directors were climbing down. 2. a. transitive. To ascend (anything steep) by hands and feet, creep up; to get to the top or summit of; to mount, scale. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > upward movement > ascend (something) [verb (transitive)] > climb up or scale > climb by clasping with legs and arms climbc1275 swarm15.. grapple1598 swarvea1650 swarm1668 shin1891 leg1893 c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1978) l. 10401 [The fox] wild-scipe climbið [c1300 Otho clembeþ]. 1487 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (St. John's Cambr.) x. 63 Thai stoutly clam [1489 Adv. clamb] the hill. 1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection Pref. ✠ ii^v To clyme this braunche. 1579 Cyuile & Vncyuile Life (new ed.) sig. Fii^v It were great pittie to see a tall fellow to clyme a Gibbet. 1611 Bible (King James) Joel ii. 7 They shall clime the wall like men of warre. View more context for this quotation 1738 J. Wesley Coll. Psalms & Hymns (new ed.) cxlvii Let the shrill Birds..climb the Morning Sky. 1815 Ld. Byron Let. 25 Dec. in Lett. & Jrnls. (1830) II. 323 We forded the river, and clomb the high hill. 1838 J. P. Nichol Archit. Heavens (1851) 131 He who had clomb heights so lofty. 1862 J. Ruskin Munera Pulveris (1880) 92 Its summit in the clouds, invisible, and not to be climbed. b. To reach or attain (a point) by this action. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > upward movement > ascend (something) [verb (transitive)] > climb up or scale > reach by climbing climb1580 1580 J. Lyly Euphues & his Eng. (new ed.) f. 114^v Imagine not that shining like the Sunne in earth, yea shall climbe the Sunne in heauen. a1616 W. Shakespeare Two Gentlemen of Verona (1623) ii. iv. 179 I must climbe her window. View more context for this quotation a1616 W. Shakespeare Two Gentlemen of Verona (1623) iii. i. 115 Her chamber is aloft..And built so sheluing, that one cannot climbe it. View more context for this quotation 1844 A. B. Welby Poems (1867) 70 I've climbed the summit of some breezy hill. 3. Said of the sun, moon, etc.: To mount slowly upwards; to move towards the zenith. a. intransitive. ΘΚΠ the world > the universe > heavenly body > movement of heavenly bodies > move [verb (intransitive)] > rise > towards zenith climba1400 ascendc1400 mount1594 speel1718 a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Trin. Cambr.) l. 16267 To clymbe aboue þe cloudes alle: þe son shal haue myȝt. c1400 ( G. Chaucer Treat. Astrolabe (Cambr. Dd.3.53) (1872) ii. §12. 24 As the sonne clymbith vppere & vppere. 1798 S. T. Coleridge Anc. Marinere iii, in W. Wordsworth & S. T. Coleridge Lyrical Ballads 19 While clombe above the Eastern bar The horned Moon. 1842 Ld. Tennyson Ulysses in Poems (new ed.) II. 90 The long day wanes: the slow moon climbs. 1883 R. L. Stevenson Treasure Island iv. xxi. 168 The sun had climbed above our girdle of trees. b. transitive. ΘΚΠ the world > the universe > heavenly body > movement of heavenly bodies > move [verb (transitive)] > rise climba1400 a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 16267 To climbe þe cludes all þe sunn sal haf þe might. 1799 T. Campbell Pleasures of Hope & Other Poems i. 289 Oft when yon moon has climb'd the midnight sky. 1870 W. C. Bryant tr. Homer Iliad I. vii. 232 The sun began to climb the heavens. 4. Of plants: to creep up by the aid of tendrils or by twining. a. intransitive. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > by growth or development > defined by habit > grow in a specific manner [verb (intransitive)] > climb, creep, or spread spreadc1300 runc1425 creep1530 ramp1578 clamber1601 couch1601 crawl1637 gad1638 climb1796 ramble1858 1796 H. Hunter tr. J.-H. B. de Saint-Pierre Stud. Nature (1799) II. 231 The branches..embrace all the surrounding trees, and climb to the height of more than sixteen feet. 1882 S. H. Vines tr. J. von Sachs Text-bk. Bot. (ed. 2) 870 The physiological function of tendrils is to take hold of supports..in order to allow the slender-stemmed plant which is furnished with them to climb up. 1884 F. O. Bower & D. H. Scott tr. H. A. de Bary Compar. Anat. Phanerogams & Ferns 583 Species which do not climb. b. transitive. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > by growth or development > defined by habit > grow in a specific manner [verb (transitive)] > climb creep1726 climb1804 clamber1887 1804 J. Grahame Sabbath 286 The blossoming pea..climbs the rust-worn bars. 5. transferred. Of other things: To rise, ascend, force its way upward: either with gradual motion, like smoke, or as the effect of continuous growth. Implying a gradual and continued rising. a. intransitive. Also spec. (see quots.), and in causative sense. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > upward movement > rise or go up [verb (intransitive)] > gradually climba1000 the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > upward movement > rise or go up [verb (intransitive)] > climb climba1000 clavera1250 clive1340 styc1380 speel1513 ramp1523 scalea1547 climber1573 stem1577 upclimb1845 grimp1893 the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > upward movement > ascend (something) [verb (transitive)] > climb up or scale climba1000 speel1571 scale1579 upclimb1582 scana1599 scance1714 society > travel > aspects of travel > travel in specific course or direction > direct (one's course, steps, etc.) [verb (transitive)] > go up (a hill, etc.) climba1000 ascendc1400 breast1718 the world > animals > birds > flight > [verb (intransitive)] > rise higher climb1874 the world > movement > progressive motion > moving with current of air or water > motion in the air > move in the air [verb (intransitive)] > fly (as) with wings > fly up upwinda1325 mountc1350 upfly1557 flurr1681 climb1874 upwing1885 society > travel > air or space travel > action of flying (in) aircraft > specific flying operations or procedures > [verb (intransitive)] > ascend or gain height to go (climb, etc.) upstairs1908 climb1915 angel1941 society > travel > air or space travel > action of flying (in) aircraft > specific flying operations or procedures > [verb (transitive)] > cause to ascend climb1919 a1000 Solomon & Saturn 414 Leoht..clymmað on gecyndo. a1616 W. Shakespeare Cymbeline (1623) v. vi. 478 Let our crooked Smoakes climbe to their Nostrils. View more context for this quotation 1807 J. Barlow Columbiad i. 40 The Stream ungovernable..Climbs, combs tempestuous. 1832 Ld. Tennyson Lotos-eaters ii, in Poems (new ed.) 109 Upclomb the shadowy pine above the woven copse. 1858 G. MacDonald Phantastes 112 The colour floated abroad..and clomb, and spread. 1874 J. W. Long Amer. Wild-fowl Shooting 245 They..can ‘climb’ out of gun-shot (as the hunters term their flying upwards when frightened at the appearance of danger beneath them) faster than most wild-fowl. 1915 Sphere 28 Aug. 220/2 One aeroplane has already climbed to the same level as the airship. 1919 Parl. Papers X. 49 It is most economical to climb an aeroplane in the attitude corresponding to the maximum value of the lift-drag ratio. b. transitive. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > upward movement > ascend (something) [verb (transitive)] > gradually climbc1400 c1400 (?c1380) Cleanness (1920) l. 405 For hit [þe flod] clam vche a clyffe cubites fyftene. a1616 W. Shakespeare Othello (1622) ii. i. 188 Let the labouring Barke clime hills of seas. View more context for this quotation 1820 P. B. Shelley Prometheus Unbound i. i. 25 The Ocean's purple waves, Climbing the land. 6. transferred. To slope upward; to form, or be situated on, an ascent, so that the successive parts occupy successively higher points. a. intransitive. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > inclination > incline or be oblique [verb (intransitive)] > slope > upwards risea1398 climba1400 ascend1832 a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 9948 A tron of iuor graid..Climband vp wit seuen pass. 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost xi. 119 On the East side of the Garden place, Where entrance up from Eden easiest climbes . View more context for this quotation 1834 E. Bulwer-Lytton Last Days of Pompeii I. i. v. 97 The woods and vineyards..then clomb half way up the ascent. b. transitive. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > inclination > incline [verb (transitive)] > place in a sloping position > be situated on upward slope climb1576 1576 W. Lambarde Perambulation of Kent 165 It [sc. Newendene] standeth in the valley, and yet clymeth the hill. 7. figurative. a. intransitive. To rise by continued effort in dignity, rank, or state; to ascend or aspire upward in the intellectual, moral, or social scale. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social class > be ranked socially [verb (intransitive)] > climb socially climba1240 risec1390 ascend1751 to rise from the ranks1798 social climb1929 the world > action or operation > prosperity > advancement or progress > advance, progress, or develop [verb (intransitive)] > rise in prosperity, power, or rank wax971 climba1240 forthgoa1325 arise1340 risec1390 increasea1425 to come upa1475 raise1490 clamber1576 to make one's way1579 grow1622 to get on (also up) in the world1791 a1240 Lofsong in Cott. Hom. 211 Ich ham heie iclumben wið þis ilke bone. a1340 R. Rolle Psalter xxxvi. 21 Þe heghere þai klymbe in honurs and riches. c1386 G. Chaucer Monk's Tale 716 Syn in astaat thou clombe were so hye. a1400–50 Alexander 3353 To clym to kyngs astate. 1530 W. Tyndale Pract. Prelates sig. Bvi^v When y^e bishopes office began..to be honorable, then the deacons..clam vp therunto. a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 3 (1623) iv. viii. 62 Fearelesse minds clyme soonest vnto Crowns. View more context for this quotation 1658 T. Burton Diary (1828) II. 465 The blessing..which we ever climbed at, was mercy, truth, righteousness, and peace. 1845 S. Austin tr. L. von Ranke Hist. Reformation in Germany (ed. 2) I. 89 At the same time Poland..climbed to the highest pinnacle of power she ever possessed. b. Said of things personified or treated as actors. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > prosperity > advancement or progress > advance, progress, or develop [verb (intransitive)] climbc1400 ascendc1550 soar1597 progress1612 develop1744 advance1875 bull1928 c1400 Rom. Rose 3911 Leccherie hath clombe so hye, That almoost blered is myn yhe. a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1590) ii. xix. sig. Bb1^v Whose courage was apt to clime ouer any daunger. 1642 T. Fuller Holy State v. xviii. 430 When ambition hath caught hold on pretended religion, how fast will it climbe? 1823 C. Lamb On Some of Old Actors (new ed.) in Elia 312 You could see the first dawn of an idea stealing slowly over his countenance, climbing up by little and little. c. transitive. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > endeavour > attempt [verb (transitive)] > attempt to obtain or attain to found toOE keepc1000 seekc1000 throwa1393 minta1400 intentc1450 to try for1534 sue1548 attempt?c1550 reachc1571 assay1595 put1596 to lay in for1599 climba1616 captate1628 court1639 obseek1646 solicit1717 to make a bid for1885 society > society and the community > social class > accord social rank to [verb (transitive)] > elevate or raise to a higher position > by continued effort climba1616 a1616 W. Shakespeare Timon of Athens (1623) i. i. 77 One man..Bowing his head against the steepy Mount To climbe his happinesse. View more context for this quotation This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.1577v.a1000
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