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climb·er

(klī′mər)

1. One that climbs, especially a person who climbs mountains.

2. Sports A device, such as a crampon, used in mountain climbing.

3. A plant that climbs.

4. A person who avidly seeks a higher social or professional position.

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climber

(ˈklaɪmə)

1. a person or thing that climbs

2. (Botany) a plant that lacks rigidity and grows upwards by twining, scrambling, or clinging with tendrils and suckers

3. (Sociology) chiefly Brit short for social climber

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climb•er

(ˈklaɪ mər)

n.

1. a person or thing that climbs.

2. a climbing plant.

3. social climber.

4. a device to assist in climbing, as a climbing iron.

[1375–1425]

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Noun	1.	climber - a vine or climbing plant that readily grows up a support or over other plants clematis - any of various ornamental climbing plants of the genus Clematis usually having showy flowers legume, leguminous plant - an erect or climbing bean or pea plant of the family Leguminosae Agdestis, genus Agdestis - a genus with one species that is a rapidly growing climbing vine with tuberous roots; grown in hot climates climbing fern - any of several ferns of the genus Lygodium that climb by twining vine - a plant with a weak stem that derives support from climbing, twining, or creeping along a surface root climber - a plant that climbs by its adventitious roots e.g. ivy
	2.	climber - someone seeking social prominence by obsequious behavior social climber lion-hunter - someone who tries to attract social lions as guests arriviste, nouveau-riche, parvenu, upstart - a person who has suddenly risen to a higher economic status but has not gained social acceptance of others in that class
	3.	climber - someone who ascends on foot; "a solitary mounter of the staircase" mounter ascender - someone who ascends
	4.	climber - someone who climbs as a sport; especially someone who climbs mountains; "the lead climber looked strong still but his partner often slumped in his ropes" athlete, jock - a person trained to compete in sports escalader - someone who gains access by the use of ladders mountain climber, mountaineer - someone who climbs mountains cragsman, rock climber - a climber of vertical rock faces
	5.	climber - an iron spike attached to the shoe to prevent slipping on ice when walking or climbing climbing iron, crampon, crampoon spike - sports equipment consisting of a sharp point on the sole of a shoe worn by athletes; "spikes provide greater traction"

Translations

مُتسلّقمُتَسَلِّقنبات مُتَسَلِّق

horolezeckariéristalezecliánapopínavá rostlina

bjergbestigerklatreplanteklatrerslyngplantestræber

Bergsteiger Kletterpflanze Aufsteiger

ορειβάτης

escalador alpinista andinista arribista enredadera

vuorikiipeilijä

grimpeur alpiniste

penjač

karrieristatörtetõ

klifrari; fjallgöngumaîur

alpinista arrampicatore rampicante scalatore

クライマー

등산가

klimmer

klatrer tindebestiger fjellklatrer klatreplante

wspinacz

alpinista

скалолаз

plezalec

klättrare

คนปีน

dağcı sarmaşıktırmanan/çıkan kimseyükselmek isteyen kimse

người leo núi

拼命向上爬的野心家攀缘植物爬山的人登山者

climber

[ˈklaɪməʳ] N

1. (= mountaineer) → montañista mf, alpinista mf, andinista mf (LAm)

2. (Bot) → trepadora f, enredadera f

3. (fig) (also social climber) → arribista mf, trepador(a) m/f

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

climber

[ˈklaɪmə^r] n → grimpeur/euse m/f (also rock climber) → varappeur/euse m/f

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

climber

(= mountaineer) → Bergsteiger(in) m(f); (= rock climber) → Kletterer(in) m(f)

(= social climber) → sozialer Aufsteiger, soziale Aufsteigerin

(= plant) → Kletterpflanze f

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

climber

[ˈklaɪməʳ] n (rock climber) → alpinista m/f, scalatore/trice (Bot) → rampicante m

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

climb

(klaim) verb

1. (of a person etc) to go up or towards the top of (a mountain, wall, ladder etc). He climbed to the top of the hill; He climbed up the ladder; The child climbed the tree.

2. to rise or ascend.

noun

1. an act of going up. a rapid climb to the top of his profession.

2. a route or place to be climbed. The guide showed us the best climb.

ˈclimber noun

1. a person who climbs (mountains).

2. a climbing plant.

3. (usually social climber) an ambitious person who tries to improve his/her social status.

climber

→ مُتَسَلِّق horolezec bjergbestiger Bergsteiger ορειβάτης escalador vuorikiipeilijä grimpeur penjač alpinista クライマー 등산가 klimmer klatrer wspinacz alpinista скалолаз klättrare คนปีน dağcı người leo núi 登山者

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A born climber's appetite for climbing is hard to satisfy; when it comes upon him he is like a starving man with a feast before him; he may have other business on hand, but it must wait.

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The footing was rough in an uncertain light for any tread save that of a good climber; but the Minor Canon was as good a climber as most men, and stood beside them before many good climbers would have been half-way down.

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The Surrey pine woods were too dry, however, for the festoons of the red climber. Beyond Wimbledon, within sight of the line, in certain nursery grounds, were the heaped masses of earth about the sixth cylinder.

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They had been driven from their former caves by another tribe which had slain many and carried off quite half the females, and the new cliffs to which they had flown had proven far higher and more precipitous, so that she had become, through necessity, a most practiced climber.

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A trailing bamboo in the Malay Archipelago climbs the loftiest trees by the aid of exquisitely constructed hooks clustered around the ends of the branches, and this contrivance, no doubt, is of the highest service to the plant; but as we see nearly similar hooks on many trees which are not climbers, the hooks on the bamboo may have arisen from unknown laws of growth, and have been subsequently taken advantage of by the plant undergoing further modification and becoming a climber.

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As Tarzan grew he made more rapid strides, so that by the time he was ten years old he was an excellent climber, and on the ground could do many wonderful things which were beyond the powers of his little brothers and sisters.

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And seeing this, the Cabbage- climber took a clod of mud and hurled it at the Mouse, plastering all his forehead and nearly blinding him.

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In blood he died as he had lived in blood, for the climber at last falls with the tree, and in the end the swimmer is borne away by the stream.

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He might easily have eluded them, for he had seen that the face of the cliff rising above the mouth of the cavern might be scaled by as good a climber as himself.

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As a minor point it may be noted," he continued, fingering the rope, "that our wooden-legged friend, though a fair climber, was not a professional sailor.

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Yet I admit that there may very well be places where an expert human climber may reach the summit, and yet a cumbrous and heavy animal be unable to descend.

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All the young girls gazed at the imprudent climber, and the fear of their coming to her gave her courage; she recovered her equilibrium, and replied, as she balanced herself on the shaking chair:--