climb

Signification (Anglais)

1. To ascend; rise; to go up.
2. To mount; to move upwards on.
3. To scale; to get to the top of something.
4. To move (especially up and down something) by gripping with the hands and using the feet.
5. To practise the sport of climbing.
6. To jump high.
7. To move to a higher position on the social ladder.
8. To move to a higher position on a chart, table, society, etc.
9. Of plants, to grow upwards by clinging to something.

grimper

monter

être promu

monter sur

se soulever

faire de l’alpinisme

avancer au pas

se lever

clamber up

hold on to

climb on

get on board

strech

side of hill

be lifted

mount up

ride a horse

scrabble

wind around

go upstream

rise above

claw one’s way up

stress

climb up the wood

swarm up

get out of a car

Fréquence

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/klaɪm/

From Middle English climben, 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.