Climbing

Definition

climb /klaÇm/ v ၁။ (က) တက္သည္။ တြယ္တက္သည္။ climb a wall/a mountain/a tree/a rope/the stairs ❍ The car slowly climbed the hill. (ခ) တက္သည္။ ဆင္းသည္။ ေက်ာ္ သည္။ climb up/down a ladder/along a ridge/into a car/out of bed/over a gate/through a hedge ❍ climb into/out of one's clothes အဝတ္ ဝတ္သည္/ခြၽတ္သည္။ ❍ This is where we start climbing (ie upwards). ❍ Monkeys can climb well. ၂။ (က) ေတာင္တက္သည္။ He likes to go climbing most weekends. (ခ) တက္သည္။ ပ်ံသည္။ The plane climbed to 20,000 feet. (ဂ) ျမင့္တက္သည္။ The road climbs steeply for several miles. (ဃ) ႏြယ္တက္သည္။ a climbing rose. ၃။ (ရာထူး၊ အဆင့္ အတန္း)တက္သည္။ In a few years he had climbed to the top of his profession. ၄။ (ေငြတန္ဖိုး၊ အပူရိွန္ စသည္) တက္သည္။ The dollar has been climbing steadily all week. ❍ Interest rates began to climb. n ၁။ အျမင့္သို႔တက္ျခင္း။ an exhausting climb ❍ a rapid climb to stardom. ၂။ အတက္။ အတက္ခရီး။ အတက္လမ္း။ It's an hour's climb to the summit. ❏ climb down (over sth) [ PHRV ] ( infml ) မွားေၾကာင္း ဝန္ခံသည္။ ေလွ်ာခ်သည္။ As new facts became known, the government was forced to climb down over its handling of the spy scandal. See also CLIMB-DOWN ❏ climb-down n အမွားဝန္ခံျခင္း။ ေလွ်ာခ်ျခင္း။ The announcement represents an embarrassing climb-down by the government. ❏ climber n ၁။ ေတာင္တက္သမား။ တြယ္တက္တတ္ေသာ တိရစၧာန္။ ၂။ ခ်ံဳႏြယ္ပင္။ ၃။ ( infml ) အသိုင္းအဝိုင္း၌ အဆင့္ အတန္းျမင့္ေအာင္ ႀကိဳးပမ္းသူ။ a social climber. ❏ climbing n [U] အေပ်ာ္ေတာင္တက္ျခင္း။ ❏ climbing-frame n ( Brit ) ကေလးမ်ား တြယ္တက္ကစားရန္ ဘားတန္းစင္။

Examples

1. He climbed onto the roof to check the TV aerial.
2. We escaped by climbing through a window.
3. The barbed wire is to stop people climbing over the fence.
4. [climb a ladder/tree/wall] : He climbed the ladder to get onto the roof.
5. She was the third woman to climb Mount Everest.
6. [go climbing] : If you go climbing you need the right boots.
7. We left the road and climbed the hill towards the wood.
8. They had to climb ten flights of stairs because the lift was broken.
9. Temperatures climbed into the 90s.
10. Their profits climbed from £20 million to £50 million last year.
11. [climb steadily] : Unemployment has climbed steadily over the past year.
12. Sara yawned as she climbed wearily into bed.
13. The plane climbed to an altitude of 60
14. 000 feet.
15. People who climb to the top of their profession
16. [climb the career/social ladder] : He began working at eighteen
17. determined to climb the career ladder.
18. [climb to] : The book climbed steadily to number one on the New York Times bestseller list.