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CLIMBING
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
An event that involves rising to a higher point (as in altitude or temperature or intensity etc.)
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("climbing" is a kind of...):
ascension; ascent; rise; rising (a movement upward)
Derivation:
climb (increase in value or to a higher point)
climb (go upward with gradual or continuous progress)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
-ing form of the verb climb
Context examples:
But he had no arms at all, and, seeing this, the Scarecrow did not fear that so helpless a creature could prevent them from climbing the hill.
(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)
Ordinary physical activity, such as walking or climbing stairs, does not cause angina.
(Canadian Cardiovascular Society Grading Scale Class I, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)
When I could see again the driver was climbing into the calèche, and the wolves had disappeared.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
Then, climbing on the roof, he had with his own hand bent and run up the colours.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
He looks upon study as an odious fetter; his time is spent in the open air, climbing the hills or rowing on the lake.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
I had had a hard day's work, and was pretty well jaded when I came climbing out, at last, upon the level of Blackheath.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Presently this incline became even steeper, and we found ourselves climbing upon hands and knees among loose rubble which slid from beneath us.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
This happens when walking or climbing stairs.
(Peripheral Arterial Disease, NIH: National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute)
Angina occurs on walking more than 2 blocks on the level and climbing more than 1 flight of ordinary stairs at a normal pace and in normal condition.
(Canadian Cardiovascular Society Grading Scale Class, NCI Thesaurus)
After the sediment hardened, wind carved the layered rock into the towering Mount Sharp, which Curiosity is climbing today.
(NASA's Curiosity Rover Finds an Ancient Oasis on Mars, NASA)
