climb

English

/klaɪm/

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Definitions
  • (intransitive) To ascend; rise; to go up.
  • (transitive) To mount; to move upwards on.
  • (transitive) To scale; to get to the top of something.
  • (transitive) To move (especially up and down something) by gripping with the hands and using the feet.
  • (intransitive) to practise the sport of climbing
  • (intransitive) to jump high
  • To move to a higher position on the social ladder.
  • (botany) Of plants, to grow upwards by clinging to something.

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English climben inherited from Old English climban (climb) inherited from Proto-Germanic *klimbaną (go up by clinging, climb), *klibaną derived from Proto-Indo-European *gley- (stick together, stick, glue, spread, smear, paste, smudge, adhere to).

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Proto-Indo-European

*gley-

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stick together, stick, glue, spread, smear, paste, smudge, adhere to

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