(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.
Ride
Definition:
(v. i.) To be carried on the back of an animal, as a horse.
(v. i.) To be borne in a carriage; as, to ride in a coach, in a car, and the like. See Synonym, below.
(v. i.) To be borne or in a fluid; to float; to lie.
(v. i.) To be supported in motion; to rest.
(v. i.) To manage a horse, as an equestrian.
(v. i.) To support a rider, as a horse; to move under the saddle; as, a horse rides easy or hard, slow or fast.
(v. t.) To sit on, so as to be carried; as, to ride a horse; to ride a bicycle.
(v. t.) To manage insolently at will; to domineer over.
(v. t.) To convey, as by riding; to make or do by riding.
(v. t.) To overlap (each other); -- said of bones or fractured fragments.
(n.) The act of riding; an excursion on horseback or in a vehicle.
(n.) A saddle horse.
(n.) A road or avenue cut in a wood, or through grounds, to be used as a place for riding; a riding.
Example Sentences:
(1) To be fair to lads who find themselves just a bus ride from Auschwitz, a visit to the camp is now considered by many tourists to be a Holocaust "bucket list item", up there with the Anne Frank museum, where Justin Bieber recently delivered this compliment : "Anne was a great girl.
(2) These lanes encourage cyclists to 'ride in the gutter' which in itself is a very dangerous riding position – especially on busy congested roads as it places the cyclist right in a motorist's blind spot.
(3) My father wrote to the official who had ruled I could not ride and asked for Championships to be established for girls.
(4) The commission heard AWH charged luxury accommodation in Queensland, limousine rides and Liberal party donations to Sydney Water.
(5) The following year, I organised and took part in a cycle ride from John O'Groats to Land's End, covering 900 miles in nine days through this beautiful country.
(6) Each moment was scripted, from the placement of his riding boots in the stirrups of the riderless black horse that accompanied his procession through Washington, to tonight’s burial at sunset back in California.
(7) Yu Xiangzhen, former Red Guard Photograph: Dan Chung for the Guardian Almost half a century on, it floods back: the hope, the zeal, the carefree autumn days riding the rails with fellow teenagers.
(8) For services to Business and the community in the East Riding of Yorkshire.
(9) Unless a leader is riding 20 points high in the polls, speculation will mount about their fitness for the job.
(10) It’s unthinkable that they wouldn’t do that.” The Saw ride at Thorpe Park in Surrey and the Dragon’s Fury and Rattlesnake rollercoasters at Chessington World of Adventures, also in Surrey, have also been shut down by Merlin Entertainments, which owns all three parks.
(11) Didi Chuxing also claims it accounts for 87% of China’s ride-hailing market, in which US-based Uber is trying to break through.
(12) The voices in the soundtrack are those of real refugees who guide the viewer through the experience – from arriving in an unfamiliar city to acute worry for loved ones left behind, concern about not being allowed to work, and the Home Office interview on which so much rides .
(13) His comments provoked a storm on social media, with political tensions riding high as Erdoğan prepares to stand in presidential elections on 10 August.
(14) Frahm witnessed how every morning Weiwei puts a flower into the basket of a bicycle just outside his studio, which he will continue until he is free again to ride it out through the gates.
(15) Conte’s tenure as national manager has been anything other than a smooth ride.
(16) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Locals sell fruit and cuscus, a possum-like marsupial, at the market in Lorengau Not long before the accident, witness said, the driver had been riding around with local women and another taskforce officer, drinking and “not fully clothed”, as Guardian Australia reported on Monday .
(17) The ride-sharing story illustrates the promise of these new businesses – and the dangers.
(18) The Campbell family has been breeding ponies in Glenshiel for more than 100 years and now runs a small pony trekking centre offering one-hour treks along the pebbly shores of Loch Duich and through the Ratagan forest as well as all-day trail rides up into the hills for the more adventurous.
(19) One team told her the sponsor had dropped out so she would have to ride for nothing.
(20) In addition, each ride has specific risk assessments to ensure that these processes are current.” He added: “As well as the daily assessment and testing, all rides are verified regularly by independent inspectors in compliance with the HSE guidelines for safe operation.