Noun: climb
| Singular | climb |
| Plural | climbs |
Sample Sentences
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Make sure that you keep checking to see that everything remains safe throughout the climb. [2007, Nigel Shepherd, Complete Guide to Rope Techniques:]
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The Mur de Péguère is a savage little climb, its last four kilometres a narrow tunnel of trees and excited spectators urging on the straining riders. [2012 July 15, Richard Williams, Tour de France 2012: Carpet tacks cannot force Bradley Wiggins off track, Guardian Unlimited:]
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I guess the room wasn't so bad, except for the climb to get there. The stairs were destined to be a serious health hazard. [1999, B. Keith Jones, The Roomie Do Me Blues:]
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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. [1998 September 30, AP, “Worst May Lie Ahead For Asia, Report Warns”, in Milwaukee Journal Sentinel:]
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This memorial dedicated to those / Who persished on the climb [2018, Maddy Makes Games, Celeste, →OCLC, level/area: Forsaken City:]
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An extended climb in Treasury yields risks exacerbating the pressures that have dogged a broad array of assets in recent months. [2023 October 20, David Randall, Davide Barbuscia, “Relentless climb in Treasury yields may have further to run after surging to 5%”, in Reuters:]
Nouns inflected like climb
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Middle English climben, clymben, from Old English climban (“to climb”), from Proto-West Germanic *klimban, from Proto-Germanic *klimbaną (“to climb, go up by clinging”), believed to be a nasalised variant of Proto-Germanic *klibaną, *klibāną (“to stick, cleave”), from Proto-Indo-European *gley- (“to stick”). Cognate with West Frisian klimme (“to climb”), Dutch klimmen (“to climb”), German klimmen (“to climb”), Old Norse klembra (“to squeeze”), Icelandic klifra (“to climb”). Related to clamber. See also clay, glue. See: Old English Nouns '
climban', Old Norse Nouns '
klembra', Icelandic Nouns '
klifra'.
Verbs referencing "climb"
Italian Nouns
climb.