climberとは意味・読み方・使い方

発音

Nepalese climbers (sense 1) Chhiring Dorje (left) and Temba Tsheri at the top of Denali, Alaska, U.S.A.

Old man’s beard or traveller’s joy (Clematis vitalba), a species of clematis, is a climber (sense 1.2).

British professional cyclist Chris Froome, who is regarded as a climber (sense 1.3), during the 2017 Tour de France.

• (Received 発音) IPA^(key): /ˈklaɪmə/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈklaɪmɚ/
• 韻: -aɪmə(ɹ)
• ハイフネーション: climb‧er

語源 1

From Middle English climber, clymber, clymbare (“one who climbs, climber”),^[1] from climben (“to climb; to ascend, fly upward, rise; to slope upwards; to approach God in prayer; to advance; to overcome, triumph; to aspire; to be presumptuous”)^[2] + -er, -ere (suffix forming agent nouns).^[3] The English word is analysable as climb (verb) +‎ -er (suffix forming agent nouns).^[4]

名詞

climber (複数形 climbers)

1. Someone or something that climbs (such as a mountain climber).
   1. (figuratively, derogatory) A person who is constantly trying to get ahead socially.

      Synonym: social climber

   2. (botany) A plant such as a vine that climbs upwards as it grows by attaching itself to some support.

      Synonym: creeper

   3. (cycle racing) A cyclist who specializes in riding especially well on steep hills or roads.
   4. (ornithology) A bird that climbs, such as a parrot or woodpecker; specifically (archaic), a bird having two toes pointing forward, and two pointing backward, formerly regarded as being from the order Scansores or Zygodactyli (now obsolete as the birds formerly in this order have been reclassified into different orders); a zygodactyl.
2. Something that is used for climbing.
   1. (climbing) Synonym of climbing iron (“a kind of crampon attached to the shoe to aid with climbing”)

派生語

語源 2

From climb +‎ -er (frequentative suffix); or a blend of climb +‎ clamber.^[5]

動詞

climber (三人称単数 現在形 climbers, 現在分詞 climbering, 過去形および過去分詞形 climbered)

1. (intransitive, obsolete) To ascend or mount with effort; to clamber, to climb.
   • 1580, Thomas Tusser, “Februaries Husbandrie”, in Fiue Hundred Pointes of Good Husbandrie: […], London: […] Henrie Denham [beeing the assigne of William Seres] […], OCLC 837741850; republished as W[illiam] Payne and Sidney J[ohn Hervon] Herrtage, editors, Five Hundred Pointes of Good Husbandrie. […], London: Published for the English Dialect Society by Trübner & Co., […], 1878, OCLC 7391867535, stanza 12, page 89:

     Stick plentie of bows among runciuall pease / to climber thereon, and to branch at their ease.

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