Climb \Climb\, v. t. To ascend, as by means of the hands and feet, or laboriously or slowly; to mount.
Climb \Climb\, n. The act of one who climbs; ascent by climbing. --Warburton.
Climb \Climb\ (kl[imac]m), v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Climbed} (kl[imac]md), Obs. or Vulgar {Clomb} (kl[o^]m); p. pr. & vb. n. {Climbing}.] [AS. climban; akin to OHG. chlimban, G. & D. klimmen, Icel. kl[=i]fa, and E. cleave to adhere.] 1. To ascend or mount laboriously, esp. by use of the hands and feet.
2. To ascend as if with effort; to rise to a higher point.
Black vapors climb aloft, and cloud the day. --Dryden.
3. (Bot.) To ascend or creep upward by twining about a support, or by attaching itself by tendrils, rootlets, etc., to a support or upright surface.
But they were still looking for rates to resume an upward climb next year.
Analysts say the rate on funds, or overnight loans between banks, has been artifically depressed lately because of technical factors and probably will climb back up to the 6 1/2% to 6 5/8% range soon.
The issue in the past two weeks has climbed to 5 1/8 from 4, and is up from 3 3/8 since the start of the year, a 52% two-month climb.
Most of the dollar's climb yesterday occurred in early European trading, where the currency also was buoyed by rumors, which proved untrue, that U.S. forces had begun an invasion of Lebanon.
Foreign and domestic institutional investors took the dollar's climb as a cue to buy West German stocks, brokers said.
The higher you climb up the debt mountain the harder you may fall.
The market opened a fraction stronger and then proceeded to climb steadily throughout the day, pausing only intermittently on signs of limited profit-taking.
Mr Furuichi says this year MCA profits are expected to climb by double digits, yet to make short-term financial sense, growth in triple digits would be required. The cost of the acquisition has weighed heavily on Matsushita's balance sheet.
"She ran down my driveway," said Sara Fonseca. "She tried to climb the back stairs but fell."
At EuroDisneyland, men barge and climb over barriers. Two hours is not an unusual queuing time.
The stock would probably climb closer to its asset value within a year, they say.
Investigators said the man apparently used electrical boxes to climb 20 feet up from the deck.
After the initial loss, the market reversed and began to climb as buy orders started coming in, dealers said.
The peasants' terraced corn and potato crops climb high up the slopes of mountains roamed by pandas.
Teiichi Igarashi reached the 12,385-foot summit this morning after an arduous three-day climb during which he slept in huts along the trail, Kyodo News Service reported.
Langley, a 40-year-old computer consultant from Calgary, Alberta, first applied to climb the mountain in 1982.
In the process, productivity gains come harder or even disappear and, as a consequence, labor costs climb.
The couple and 18 friends began the climb up the 14,156-foot-high mountain in Rocky Mountain National Park at 3 a.m. in order to reach the summit by noon for the ceremony.
The trade figures are denominated in dollars and thus were inflated as the yen continued to climb against the U.S. currency.
Compaq Computer, a star performer in the market's climb to record highs, added 3 1/2 to 122 7/8.
Ten years ago: The prime rate _ the interest rate charged by commercial banks to lowest-risk corporate customers _ rose to 20 percent, continuing an unprecedented upward climb.
And many investment trusts will now also sell directly to the public. But investment trusts have a big mountain to climb.
Prices of most debt securities were narrowly mixed in quiet trading as many of the biggest investors in the credit markets remained inactive, convinced that interest rates will climb further.
After the first joint climb, the Chinese changed their team, however, and it is now made up mostly of Tibetans.
At the same time, prices continued to climb in January, marking the fifth consecutive month that more purchasers reported higher prices than reported lower ones, according to the survey.
The reports said Hubal was killed after troops ordered him to climb an electricity pole to remove a Palestinian flag. Palestinian flags are outlawed in Israel.
Expectations that prices will climb can generate bids well over appraisal estimates.
To get to the Petersen, you must climb 22 shabbily carpeted stairs to the building's second floor, no mean feat when you're lugging a couple of bowling balls.
They did not want to climb steep hills to get to their hotels and they wanted someone to carry their suitcases. Mr Roger De Haan, the founder's son, started out in the business carrying older guests' luggage to their rooms at his father's hotel.
The aerospace and defense contractor also forecast Monday that its 1990 sales would climb by 35 percent to about $27 billion.