(v. i.) To ascend or mount laboriously, esp. by use of the hands and feet.
(v. i.) To ascend as if with effort; to rise to a higher point.
(v. i.) To ascend or creep upward by twining about a support, or by attaching itself by tendrils, rootlets, etc., to a support or upright surface.
(v. t.) To ascend, as by means of the hands and feet, or laboriously or slowly; to mount.
(n.) The act of one who climbs; ascent by climbing.
Example Sentences:
(1) Moments later, Strauss introduces the bold human character with an energetic, upwards melody which he titles "the climb" in the score.
(2) Blood samples were collected from an antecubital vein at sea level (S1), in a base camp at 1515 m prior to the summit ascent (S2), on the summit at 3285 m after 6.5 hours of climbing (S3), at base camp immediately after the descent (S4), and at sea level following a trail descent from the base camp (S5).
(3) This has been manageable, even beneficial to the economy when people slowly climbed the property ladder.
(4) GABA-immunogold reaction has revealed the presence of this inhibitory transmitter in most axon terminals containing ovoid-pleomorphic vesicles within the molecular layer, including those resembling climbing fiber-terminals.
(5) The town's Castle Hill is the perfect climb for travellers with energy to burn off: at the top is a picnic spot with far-reaching views, and there is a small children's play area at its foot.
(6) Philip Shaw, chief economist at Investec, said: “Clearly, there is a much greater chance that the euro hits parity with the US dollar once again, as it first did in 1999.” Stock markets climbed and bond yields fell as the markets digested the full implications of the massive QE project that will involve the ECB buying €60bn (£45bn) of bonds a month until September 2016 or when eurozone inflation nears the central bank’s 2% target.
(7) The energey expenditure during coitus for long-married couples is equivalent to that of climbing stairs, and consequently the risk of heart attack is low.
(8) The data suggest that throughout most of the gait cycle and normal stair climbing, the passive structures contribute a small portion of the total moment, usually well less than 10%.
(9) The top of the fence can also be manipulated in certain ways such as including curvature outward at the top of the fence to make scaling it much more difficult for most.” Some critics, including Washington DC congressional delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton, have warned against excessive fortification, but the report argues: “We recognise all the competing considerations that may go into questions regarding the fence, but believe that protection of the President and the White House must be the higher priority.” “Every additional second of response time provided by a fence that is more difficult to climb makes a material difference in ensuring the President’s safety and protecting the symbol that is the White House.” The panel also urges that a new head of secret service, to replace ousted head Julia Pierson, be brought in from outside the agency, ensuring it is better staffed and trained in future.
(10) Climbing Table Mountain and hitting the nightlife are on the agenda too, as well as surfing Cape Town’s more challenging spots, from Long Beach to Kommetjie.
(11) Now Sanders is seeing his poll numbers start to climb again, particularly in New Hampshire and Iowa, even though Clinton is seemingly doing everything right.
(12) The IPCC is charged with providing a scientific, balanced assessment about what's known and what's known about climate change There are lots of organisations ringing bells The IPCC is more like a belltower, which people can climb up to get a clear view 8.41am BST Al Gore , the former US vice-president and winner of the Nobel peace prize for his work on climate change , has responded to the IPCC report by saying it shows the need for a switch to low carbon sources of energy (note his emphasis is on mitigation, i.e.
(13) A belated acknowledgement of the damage inflicted by decades of stagnated earnings and inequality have meant pay levels have rightly climbed to prominence, in part spurred by Vermont senator Bernie Sanders who put fair pay at the heart of his campaign attempts to secure the Democratic nomination for president.
(14) Climb through the forest and discover some small churches and a brilliant Indiana Jones-esque swing bridge.
(15) Says 'mountains can be climbed and let's hope that's the case here.'
(16) The women in Wednesday's protest climbed up on the gates of the justice ministry until police pulled them down and hustled them shouting into the building as an angry crowd gathered, many of them lawyers there for work.
(17) Gait of 11 patients with bilateral paired posterior cruciate-retaining and cruciate-sacrificing total knee arthroplasties (TKA) was studied preoperatively and two years postoperatively on walking and stair climbing.
(18) In cats anaesthetized with Nembutal, the cutaneous receptive fields of individual cerebellar climbing fibres were assessed by recording the climbing fibre responses of single Purkyne cells following controlled mechanical stimulation (air jets, vibration, taps, pressure) of the foot pads of all four limbs and of the hairy skin of the limbs and the body.2.
(19) Total attendances at hospital A&E units in England have climbed every year for the past eight years, from 17.837m in 2004-05 to 21.739m in the first 11 months of 2012-13 – a rise of 21.9%.
(20) Basilar dendrites show significantly larger numbers (p less than .05) of branching for motor I cortex under condition 3 associated with the greatest skills and amount of activity in climbing, swinging, and grasping of objects.
Clime
Definition:
(n.) A climate; a tract or region of the earth. See Climate.
Example Sentences:
(1) After a short prologue, where it's established that a tall man and a young boy survive whatever it is we're about to read (and end up in the far sunnier climes of Mexico), we meet the town itself.
(2) However, filariasis cannot be eliminated from the differential diagnosis of testicular, epididymal, or spermatic cord masses in nontropical climes.
(3) That base covered, or at least shaded, Paul's other positions (pro-life, pro-gun, against NSA surveillance, Obamacare, regulation in general) need little protective coloring in the deep red climes of Tea Party nation.
(4) A similar sheath of fibroblasts to that surrounding the crypts of Lieberkühn in the colon, which it is climed undergoes constant renewal and migration, has now been identified in the rectum and thereby it may become possible to follow the cellular response to irradiation of a mesenchymal tissue.
(5) Down in the warmer climes of Florida, there was another candidate who, despite being the youngest in the race, cast himself this week as a viable alternative: Marco Rubio , Bush’s friend and longtime ally.
(6) Though Henry James deeply admired the psychological intensity of Hawthorne's work, his own writing travelled on from it with the haste of a man fleeing sultry discomforts for cooler climes.
(7) Culex quinquefasciatus also exists in more temperate climes, such as the southern United States, where it is known to carry the West Nile virus, and can survive winters.
(8) This phenomenon may be the common denominator of the survival advantage which has allowed both the successful evolution of species inhabiting warm, arid climes, and the persistence of the diabetic genotype in animal and human populations.
(9) Later this year north Kent's creaking line connects with High Speed 1, and whole swaths of hitherto distant climes become far more accessible.
(10) In his 1983 book More Cunning than Man, writer Robert Hendrickson lists “the obvious ways in which rats so well resemble humans: ferocity, omnivorousness, adaptability to all climes, migration from east to west in the life journey of their species, irresponsible fecundity in all seasons, with a seeming need to make genocidal war on their own kind.” He describes rats and men alike as “utterly destructive, both taking all other living things for their purposes.” Humanity’s long struggle with rats mostly signals the worst traits we share with them: our inability to live responsibly within our environment; our tendencies toward hedonism and greed; and our failures to look after the weakest among us.
(11) Despite the recession, the number of people searching for sunnier climes has increased significantly, while some tourism businesses in the UK are reporting that they are only half as busy as they would be in an average year.
(12) As he prepared to escape the heat of Washington last Friday, Barack Obama would have been forgiven for looking forward to the cooler climes of Camp David, his weekend retreat some 60 miles from the White House, tucked away in Maryland's Catoctin Mountain Park.
(13) While the crime plots may not necessarily be distinct from those faced by fictional British detectives, the sense of unfamiliarity offered up by tales from continental climes adds a sense of freshness.
(14) Close your eyes, enjoy the exotic flavours and be whisked away to warmer climes.
(15) 26 min: Reid swings a long ball from the right into the area, Bertos climing all over the back of Skrtel and conceding the free kick.
(16) Or, indeed, an international school recruiter offering a five-figure relocation package to exotic climes.
(17) It was on one of these writing breaks, in the slightly cooler climes of Blackpool, that he co-created Life on Mars with Matthew Graham and Ashley Pharoah.
(18) The new job forced Murrells and his family to move "north" to Prestbury, Cheshire, from the sunnier climes of Stratford-upon-Avon.
(19) From the sweltering heat of the Amazon rainforest to the chillier climes of Porto Alegre, fans and players have traversed huge distances and been welcomed with open arms.
(20) Thus, vitamin D deficiency may develop in confined, nonvitamin D fortified patients in Florida just as in more northern climes.