CLIMB

Climb

In aviation, the term climb refers both to the actual operation of increasing the altitude of an aircraft and to the logical phase of a typical flight following takeoff and preceding the cruise, during which an increase in altitude to a predetermined level is effected.

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climb

Noun

  1. An act of climbing.
  2. The act of getting to somewhere more elevated.
  3. An upwards struggle

Verb

  1. To ascend; rise; to go up.
    Prices climbed steeply.
  2. To mount; to move upwards on.
    They climbed the mountain.
    Climbing a tree
  3. To scale; to get to the top of something.
  4. To move (especially up and down something) by gripping with the hands and using the feet.
  5. to practise the sport of climbing
  6. to jump high
  7. To move to a higher position on the social ladder.
  8. Of plants, to grow upwards by clinging to something.


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