CLIMB UP

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does climb up mean? 

• CLIMB UP (verb)
  The verb CLIMB UP has 3 senses:

1. go upward with gradual or continuous progress

2. appear to be moving upward, as by means of tendrils

3. rise in rank or status

  Familiarity information: CLIMB UP used as a verb is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CLIMB UP (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Go upward with gradual or continuous progress

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Synonyms:

climb; climb up; go up; mount

Context example:

Did you ever climb up the hill behind your house?

Hypernyms (to "climb up" is one way to...):

arise; come up; go up; lift; move up; rise; uprise (move upward)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "climb up"):

scale (climb up by means of a ladder)

escalade (climb up and over)

ramp (creep up -- used especially of plants)

mountaineer (climb mountains for pleasure as a sport)

ride (climb up on the body)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s PP

Sense 2

Meaning:

Appear to be moving upward, as by means of tendrils

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Synonyms:

ascend; climb up

Context example:

the vine climbed up the side of the house

Sentence frame:

Something ----s

Sense 3

Meaning:

Rise in rank or status

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

climb up; jump; rise

Context example:

Her new novel jumped high on the bestseller list

Hypernyms (to "climb up" is one way to...):

change (undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Something is ----ing PP

 Context examples 

Health Assessment Questionnaire Disability Index (HAQ-DI) Walking: are you able to climb up five steps?

(HAQ-DI - Able to Climb Up Steps, NCI Thesaurus)

The rover had reached this area after a steep climb up a 20-foot (6-meter) hill.

(Curiosity Rover Inspects Unusual Bedrock, NASA)

The king’s son wanted to climb up to her, and looked for the door of the tower, but none was to be found.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

As water temperatures climb up to 30 degrees Celsius, the western Pacific Ocean is susceptible to fish migration.

(Pacific island fish migrating to cooler seas, SciDev.Net)

I think so, because she beckoned to me to climb up, with quite a new and motherly expression in her face, and put her arm round my neck, and gave me just such a kiss as she might have given to her own boy.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

After 10 days of age, the manipulations reduced the distance flies could climb up tubes and the alterations caused older flies to have signs of neurodegeneration, including higher than normal levels of brain cell death and degradation.

(NIH scientists search for the clocks behind aging brain disorders, National Institutes of Health)