What's the difference between climber and limber?

Climber


Definition:

  • (n.) One who, or that which, climbs
  • (n.) A plant that climbs.
  • (n.) A bird that climbs, as a woodpecker or a parrot.
  • (v. i.) To climb; to mount with effort; to clamber.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) At least 300 foreign climbers and hundreds more Sherpas had been on the mountain, or close to it, when the disaster struck.
  • (2) His greatest passion on the trek up, apart from finding a 3G signal and playing rap music from a speaker on the back of his pack, was playing Tigers and Goats, a local version of chess, taking on all-comers – climbers, Sherpas, trekkers, random elderly porters passing through the lodges.
  • (3) Mountaineering officials say nine Nepalese guides have reached the peak of Mount Everest , becoming the first climbers in two years to conquer the world’s highest mountain following two years of disasters.
  • (4) In animals identified as "non-climbers" using the screening dose of apomorphine, only L-dopa induced a marked climbing response.
  • (5) Every year about 600 climbers come to Nepal hoping to reach the summit, creating a multimillion-pound industry and bringing problems of overcrowding.
  • (6) It feels like most people who are climbing Everest are having a film crew follow them.” Sherpa review – peril in the shadow of Everest Read more Since April’s earthquake, the Nepalese government have limited access to permits to experienced climbers, hoping that will address concerns about safety and overcrowding.
  • (7) Ang Tshering, who headed a government committee to review mountain tourism in Nepal, said the government plans to more strictly monitor climbers to make sure they bring down all their climbing gear, food wrappings and oxygen cylinders.
  • (8) Hiroki Ogawa, 31, from Japan, and Nicole Sutton, 29, from New Zealand, were part of a group of climbers who reached the summit of Mount Taranaki on Saturday before encountering bad weather on the descent, police said.
  • (9) Seven climbers (elite climbers, AE) had previously ascended to 8,000 m or more above sea level, and 9 (A) had never achieved such extreme altitude.
  • (10) All right, Lego, maybe it's not your job to dictate culture and produce female mountain climbers.
  • (11) This can be a good move,” Ang Tshering said, pointing out that China did not allow climbers below 16 years of age or older than 75 to climb Everest from the northern side.
  • (12) The three climbers – Ueli Steck from Switzerland, Italy's Simone Moro and British alpinist Jon Griffith – had been moving without ropes more than 7,000m (23,000ft) up the mountain's Lhotse face, which leads to the South Col, acclimatising for a later attempt on a new route.
  • (13) 466 Climbers, mostly recreational: 47 at 2850 m, 128 at 3050 m, 82 at 3650, and 209 at 4559 m.
  • (14) More than half of the injured climbers had been treated by a physician for their injury.
  • (15) Nearly 4,000 climbers have reached the top of Everest since the pioneering May 1953 climb, while 240 have lost their lives on its slopes.
  • (16) Officials said 12 bodies had so far been recovered and ferried to base camp, while a further three injured climbers were being taken to Kathmandu.
  • (17) An additional eye of one of these climbers had a central retinal vein occlusion with vitreous hemorrhage, which reduced visual acuity to counting fingers.
  • (18) Romanian climber Alex Gavan, who was in the base camp and survived by running from his tent, posted a desperate appeal on Twitter on Saturday.
  • (19) It was the most deadly accident on any major mountain for several years, and the fact that it hit Sherpa climbers, not westerners, was not a coincidence.
  • (20) The National Park Service rescued 27% of the climbers.

Limber


Definition:

  • (n.) The shafts or thills of a wagon or carriage.
  • (n.) The detachable fore part of a gun carriage, consisting of two wheels, an axle, and a shaft to which the horses are attached. On top is an ammunition box upon which the cannoneers sit.
  • (n.) Gutters or conduits on each side of the keelson to afford a passage for water to the pump well.
  • (v. t.) To attach to the limber; as, to limber a gun.
  • (a.) Easily bent; flexible; pliant; yielding.
  • (v. t.) To cause to become limber; to make flexible or pliant.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Carriers of the other defect genes have no advantage for milk production, are scored lower for pelvic angle, and limber leg carriers have more desirable udders.
  • (2) The New York Times opened a report from London thus: "While the world's athletes limber up in the Olympic Park, Londoners are practising some of their own favourite sports: complaining, expecting the worst and cursing the authorities."
  • (3) Of the two schedules the first one (without a preliminary "limbering" rotation) was more favourable.
  • (4) Left to its own devices, the world is still planning to spend the next decade or two mostly limbering up, engaging in the kind of impressive-looking stretching that runners enjoy at the start line.
  • (5) There are rumours that this production of Company is limbering up to transfer to the West End.
  • (6) LIVE ON BIG WEBSITE LATER Transfer-deadline-day-short-straw-puller Rob Bagchi is limbering up as we type, with – and we kid you not – a computer keyboard and computer mouse in front of him.
  • (7) In a centrifuge with a 1 m radius 18 animals got ventro-dorsal gravitation stress according to schedule N 1 (with limberung-up) and 18 animals according to schedule N 2 got gravitation stress without limbering-up.
  • (8) Proteinase K, the extracellular serine endopeptidase (E.C.3.4.21.14) from the fungus Tritirachium album limber, is homologous to the bacterial subtilisin proteases.
  • (9) The team looked flat and strangely subdued and the crowd longed for Ronaldo's arrival, howling his name and enthusiastically rising to their feet when he appeared on the touchline to limber up.
  • (10) Now the candidates for the position of chancellor after the election will be limbering up for Monday's debate .
  • (11) A number of proteinases are induced and secreted into the culture medium of Tritirachium album Limber when the nitrogen source is limited to exogenous proteins.
  • (12) The program must be tailored to the patient, starting with relaxation and gentle limbering exercises and proceeding ultimately to vigorous muscle-stretching exercises.
  • (13) British bookmakers remain among the favourites to triumph in the World Cup – they'll take up to £600m online according to a new report by Regulus Insights and Sporting Index – and one of our teams, Betfair , will limber up for the big event this week by unveiling its annual results.
  • (14) This was not a great way for Tottenham to limber up for the new Premier League season, which kicks off for them at Manchester United at lunchtime on Saturday, as they were convincingly beaten by Real Madrid .
  • (15) Therefore, routine limbering-up is recommended before sports activities.
  • (16) Schedule N2 (18 rotations without a preliminary limbering-up) proved to be more effective.
  • (17) Proteinase K (EC 3.4.21.14) from the fungus Tritirachium album Limber is the most active known serine endopeptidase.
  • (18) We have isolated the genomic and cDNA clones encoding a novel proteinase from the fungus Tritirachium album Limber, named proteinase T, synthesis of which is induced in skim milk medium.
  • (19) The cDNA and the chromosomal gene encoding proteinase K from Tritirachium album Limber have been cloned in Escherichia coli and the entire nucleotide sequences of the coding region, as well as 5'- and 3'-flanking regions have been determined.
  • (20) Otherwise the Premier League champions in waiting did not move outside the Midlands and seemed more than content to limber up for the campaign with friendlies at Lincoln, Mansfield, Burton and Birmingham.