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発音

• enPR: klīm, IPA: /klaɪm/
• Homophone: clime
• 韻: -aɪm

動詞

climb (third-person singular simple present climbs, present participle climbing, simple past climbed or (archaic) clomb, past participle climbed or (archaic) clomb or (archaic) clumb)

1. (intransitive) To ascend; rise; to go up.

   Prices climbed steeply.

   • 1697, Virgil, “The Seventh Book of the Æneis”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:

     Black vapours climb aloft, and cloud the day.

   • 1869 December (indicated as 1870 January), James Russell Lowell, “The Cathedral”, in James Thomas Fields, editor, The Atlantic Monthly: A Magazine of Literature, Science, Art, and Politics, volume XXV, number CXLVII, Boston, Mass.: Fields, Osgood, & Co., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 5:

     Looking up suddenly, I found mine eyes / Confronted with the minster's vast repose. / Silent and gray as forest-leaguered cliff / Left inland by the ocean's slow retreat, / […] / Remembering shocks of surf that clomb and fell, / Spume-sliding down the baffled decuman, […]

   • 1960 December, Voyageur, “The Mountain Railways of the Bernese Oberland”, in Trains Illustrated, page 752:

     So we continue climbing to the saddle of the Kleine Scheidegg, where ahead there comes into view the wide expanse of the Grindelwald valley, backed by the snowy crown of the Wetterhorn.

   • 2023 November 29, Paul Clifton, “West is best in the Highlands”, in RAIL, number 997, page 39:

     After Bridge of Orchy, the line climbs steeply into the wild country of Rannoch Moor. The railway builders chose a different route across the moor from the road - we are completely on our own up here.

   1. To move to a higher position on a chart or hierarchy.

      The hit song has climbed to the number one spot.

2. (transitive) To mount; to move upwards on.

   climbing a tree

   They climbed the mountain.

   • 2023 July 6, Pamela Paul, “What’s the Story With Colleen Hoover?”, in The New York Times‎:

     Other Hooverian devices become familiar too. Characters often have names that are so obscure they barely seem like real names (Ryle, Lowen, Chastin, Atlas, Crew) but might wind up climbing the baby name list — now you know why — in a few years’ time.

3. (transitive) To scale; to get to the top of something.
   • 2010 May 22, David Harrison, “American boy, 13, is youngest person to climb Everest”, in Daily Telegraph online‎:

     He is a curly-haired schoolboy barely in his teens, but 13-year-old Jordan Romero from California has become the youngest person to climb Mount Everest.

4. (intransitive) To enter, mount or otherwise assume a position in or on a conveyance.

   He climbed into the passenger-seat of the car.

   We'll climb back on our bikes and continue the route.

5. (transitive) To move (especially up and down something) by gripping with the hands and using the feet.

   My legs were so stiff and my arms so sore that this morning I could barely climb out of bed.

   • 1900, James Frazer, The Golden Bough Chapter 65:

     A priest clad in a white robe climbs the tree and with a golden sickle cuts the mistletoe, which is caught in a white cloth.

   • 1900 May 17, L[yman] Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chicago, Ill.; New York, N.Y.: Geo[rge] M[elvin] Hill Co., →OCLC:

     She thought she must have been mistaken at first, for none of the scarecrows in Kansas ever wink; but presently the figure nodded its head to her in a friendly way. Then she climbed down from the fence and walked up to it, while Toto ran around the pole and barked.

   • 2008, Tony Atkins, Dragonhawk - the Turning:

     Cutter and Bolan climbed around the furniture and piled into the back of the truck.

6. (intransitive) To practise the sport of climbing.
7. (intransitive) To jump high.
   • 2010 December 28, Paul Fletcher, “Man City 4 - 0 Aston Villa”, in BBC‎:

     The defender climbed majestically at the near post to convert Johnson's corner.

   • 2008 September 13, “Ospreys Glasgow Magners League”, in South Wales Evening Post‎:

     As the game moved towards injury time, the Ospreys forced a line-out which Jonathan Thomas climbed high to take.

   • 2001 December 29, Derick Allsop, “Bolton's nine men hit back to steal a point”, in Daily Telegraph online‎:

     Four minutes of stoppage time were virtually up when Ricketts climbed to head in the equaliser from substitute Nicky Southall's centre.

8. (transitive or intransitive) (botany) Of plants, to grow upwards by clinging to something.

使用する際の注意点

In the past, the forms clomb and clumb were encountered as simple past and past participle forms; these forms are now archaic or dialectal.

Conjugation

同意語

• (get to the top of): scale

派生語

名詞

climb (plural climbs)

1. An act of climbing.
   • 2007, Nigel Shepherd, Complete Guide to Rope Techniques:

     Make sure that you keep checking to see that everything remains safe throughout the climb.

2. The act of getting to somewhere more elevated.
   • 2012 July 15, Richard Williams, Tour de France 2012: Carpet tacks cannot force Bradley Wiggins off track‎, Guardian Unlimited:

     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.

   • 1999, B. Keith Jones, The Roomie Do Me Blues:

     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.

3. An effort of moving upward.
   • 1998 September 30, AP, “Worst May Lie Ahead For Asia, Report Warns”, in Milwaukee Journal Sentinel‎:

     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.

   • 2018, Maddy Makes Games, Celeste, →OCLC, level/area: Forsaken City:

     This memorial dedicated to those / Who persished on the climb

   • 2023 October 20, David Randall, Davide Barbuscia, “Relentless climb in Treasury yields may have further to run after surging to 5%”, in Reuters‎:

     An extended climb in Treasury yields risks exacerbating the pressures that have dogged a broad array of assets in recent months.

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