Climbed vs Limbed - What's the difference?
climbed | limbed |
(climb)
To ascend; rise; to go up.
* Dryden
To mount; to move upwards on.
To scale; to get to the top of something.
* {{quote-news, year=2010, date=May 22, author=David Harrison
, title=American boy, 13, is youngest person to climb Everest
, work=Daily Telegraph online
To move (especially up and down something) by gripping with the hands and using the feet.
* 1900 , (James Frazer), (The Golden Bough) Chapter 65
* 1900 , , ''(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz)
* 2008 , Tony Atkins, Dragonhawk - the Turning
to practise the sport of climbing
to jump high
* {{quote-news, year=2010, date=December 28
, author=Paul Fletcher, title=Man City 4 - 0 Aston Villa, work=BBC
* {{quote-news, year=2008, date=September 13
, title=Ospreys Glasgow Magners League, work=South Wales Evening Post
* {{quote-news, year=2001, date=December 29, author=Derick Allsop
, title=Bolton's nine men hit back to steal a point, work=Daily Telegraph online
To move to a higher position on the social ladder.
(botany) Of plants, to grow upwards by clinging to something.
An act of climbing.
* 2007 , Nigel Shepherd, Complete Guide to Rope Techniques
The act of getting to somewhere more elevated.
* 2012 , July 15. Richard Williams in Guardian Unlimited,
* 1999 , B. Keith Jones, The Roomie Do Me Blues
An upwards struggle
* {{quote-news
, year=1998
, date=September 30
, author=AP
, title=Worst May Lie Ahead For Asia, Report Warns
, work=Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
(limb)
A major appendage of human or animal, used for locomotion (such as an arm, leg or wing).
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*:Three chairs of the steamer type, all maimed, comprised the furniture of this roof-garden, withon one of the copings a row of four red clay flower-pots filled with sun-baked dust from which gnarled and rusty stalks thrust themselves up like withered elfin limbs .
A branch of a tree.
(lb) The part of the bow, from the handle to the tip.
(lb) The border or upper spreading part of a monopetalous corolla, or of a petal or sepal; blade.
(lb) The border or edge of the disk of a heavenly body, especially of the sun or moon.
The graduated margin of an arc or circle in an instrument for measuring angles.
An elementary piece of the mechanism of a lock.
A thing or person regarded as a part or member of, or attachment to, something else.
*Sir (Walter Scott) (1771-1832)
*:That little limb of the devil has cheated the gallows.
To remove the limbs from an animal or tree.
To supply with limbs.
* , Walden :
(astronomy) The apparent visual edge of a celestial body.
(on a measuring instrument) The graduated edge of a circle or arc.
As verbs the difference between climbed and limbed
is that climbed is past tense of climb while limbed is past tense of limb.climbed
English
Verb
(head)climb
English
Verb
- Prices climbed steeply.
- Black vapours climb aloft, and cloud the day.
- They climbed the mountain.
- Climbing a tree
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- A priest clad in a white robe climbs the tree and with a golden sickle cuts the mistletoe, which is caught in a white cloth.
- She thought she must have been mistaken at first, for none of the scarecrows in Kansas ever wink; but presently the figure nodded its head to her in a friendly way. Then she climbed down from the fence and walked up to it, while Toto ran around the pole and barked.
- Cutter and Bolan climbed around the furniture and piled into the back of the truck.
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Usage notes
In the past, the forms clomb'' and ''clumb were encountered as simple past and past participle forms; these forms are now archaic or dialectical.Derived terms
* climb down * climb down someone's throat * climb up * climb the ladder * climb the walls * climber * declimb * have a mountain to climb * unclimbedSynonyms
(get to the top of) * scaleNoun
(wikipedia climb) (en noun)- Make sure that you keep checking to see that everything remains safe throughout the climb .
Tour de France 2012: Carpet tacks cannot force Bradley Wiggins off track
- The Mur de Péguère is a savage little climb , its last four kilometres a narrow tunnel of trees and excited spectators urging on the straining riders.
- I guess the room wasn't so bad, except for the climb to get there. The stairs were destined to be a serious health hazard.
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Derived terms
* rate of climblimbed
English
Verb
(head)Anagrams
* *limb
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) lim, from (etyl) . The silent -b began to appear in the late 1500s.Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* go out on a limbVerb
(en verb)- They limbed the felled trees before cutting them into logs.
- Man was not made so large limbed and robust but that he must seek to narrow his world and wall in a space such as fitted him.
- (Milton)
Synonyms
* delimbEtymology 2
From (etyl) limbus , "border".Noun
(en noun)- solar limb