From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
climb
n 1: an upward slope or grade (as in a road); "the car couldn't
make it up the rise" [syn: ascent, acclivity, rise,
raise, climb, upgrade] [ant: declension,
declination, decline, declivity, descent,
downslope, fall]
2: an event that involves rising to a higher point (as in
altitude or temperature or intensity etc.) [syn: climb,
climbing, mounting]
3: the act of climbing something; "it was a difficult climb to
the top" [syn: climb, mount]
v 1: go upward with gradual or continuous progress; "Did you
ever climb up the hill behind your house?" [syn: climb,
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, climb, 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, climb]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
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[imac]fa, and E. cleave to adhere.]
1. To ascend or mount laboriously, esp. by use of the hands
and feet.
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2. To ascend as if with effort; to rise to a higher point.
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Black vapors climb aloft, and cloud the day.
--Dryden.
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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.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Climb \Climb\, v. t.
To ascend, as by means of the hands and feet, or laboriously
or slowly; to mount.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Climb \Climb\, n.
The act of one who climbs; ascent by climbing. --Warburton.
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