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Definition: Climb Down |
Climb DownVerb1. Come down, as of a bird. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definitions |
Tips from 1870 | Usage: Climb down. The critics generally oppose the use of the expression climb down. When the verb is employed without its adverbial modifier, the upward direction is always understood. In figurative language, as "Black vapors climb aloft, and cloud the day," "The general climbed the heights of fame," the upward direction is also understood. But in a specific sense climb is defined "to mount laboriously, especially by the use of hands and feet." Here the manner seems to be as important as the direction. When the same manner must be employed in descending, as a tree, a mast, or a steep, rocky cliff, the general term descend fails to convey the meaning, and to use slip, slide, drop, tumble, fall, would be incorrect. We are then left to choose between the short and clear, but objectionable, expression climb down and some long and cumbersome equivalent. Source: Slips of Speech. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonym: Climb DownSynonym: alight (v). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Climb Down |
| Specialty definitions using "climb down": Burden ♦ Climb down ♦ Humphrey's spiral ♦ TREE PRUNER. (references) |
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Screenplays | Tiggers can't climb down, uhBecauseBecause their tails get in the way. (Winnie the Pooh and Tigger Too!; writing credit: A.A. Milne; Ralph Wright) You can climb down. (Winnie the Pooh and Tigger Too!; writing credit: A.A. Milne; Ralph Wright) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
Expression using "climb down": climb down the tree. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| Language | Translations for "climb down"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | zbres (alight, bring down, debus, deduct, descend, dip, discount, dismount, dive, drop off, go down, knock off, let off, light, lower, reckon off, recoup, step down, subduct, subtract, take away), tërhiqem (back away, back out of, backpedal, backslide, deny, depart, draw away, draw back, fall back, give ground, rebound, recede, recoil, retire, retrograde, shrink, withdraw). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | نزل من الشجرة, نزل (bring down, camp, cantonal, come down, decline, depress, descend, drop, get down, get off, glide, go down, hostel, inn, lodge, lodging house, low, lower, miscreant, move, nest, pull down, put down, rascal, reach down, road house, scab, scroll, send, shade, sink, slip down, step down, take down, tavern). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | слизам (come down, detrain, dismount, drop, get down, get off, get out of, go down, land, pop down, step down, step out), отстъпване от позиции. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | slézt (come off, come out, dismount, get down), ústup (countermarch, recess, retreat). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | bakzeil halen (back down). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Esperanto | senpretendiĝi (back down), malfieriĝi (back down). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | descendre. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | herabsteigen (step down). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | κατεβαίνω (alight, come down, come off, descend, dismount, get down, get off, go down, step down), υποχωρώ (abate, back down, back out of, blench, bow, cave in, defer to, ebb, fall back, flinch, give in, give way to, recede, relent, retreat, subduce, subside, yield), αλλάζω ύφοσ. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | לס'ת ממעמ"ו. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | lemenetel (climb-down), lemászik (to get off). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | tarlheim (descend, descent, landing). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | imbclay ownday reduzir suas ambições. (various references) coborî (abate, alight, bring low, come down, couch, cut, debase, decline, depreciate, descend, detrain, dip, dismount, down, drop, duck, fall, get off, go down, lower, move down, reduce, suppress), cedare (concession, devolution, disposal, release), cãdea (appear, arrive, collapse, come down, drop, err, fail, fall, fall through, founder, go under, have a fall, land, pitch, pluck, redound, ruin, sin, sink, slip down, slough away, slough off, strip, vote down), retragere (backing, recall, recession, refuge, regress, retire, retirement, retiring, retraction, retreat, seclusion, withdrawal). (various references) уступка (cession, concession, concessioner, grant, rebate), слезать (come off smth., get down, get off), спуск (alighting, chute, descend, descent, discharge, down, downhill). (various references) spustiti se (alight, descend, land, light, perch, shut in, step down), silaženje (alighting, descent), sići (alight, come down, descend, get down, get off, get out, go down, light, step down), priznati grešku. (various references) volverse atrás (back down, back out, backpedal, backtrack, look back), rajarse (back down, bottle out, chap, rift, rush off, splash out), hacer bajar (depress, send down), bajar (abase, abate, bow, bring down, come down, cut, decline, decrease, deign, demean, demote, depreciate, descend, detrain, discount, dismount, download, drop, drop off, duck, ebb, fall, fall away, fall back, fall off, get down, get off, get out, go below, go belowdecks, go down, hand down, hang, hop off, let down, lift down, lower, pull down, put down, rebate, recede, reduce, ring down, sag, set out, sink, step down, stoop, subside, take down, trail, turn down, walk down, walk off, wind down). (various references) reträtt (backdown, fall back, retreat), kliva ned, klättra ned. (various references) tutumundan vazgeçmek, tutumundan vazgeçme, inmek (alight, come down, decrease, descend, dismount, ease off, fall, fall away, get off, go down, light, sink, step down, step off, step out, subside into, take off), inadı bırakmak, alttan almak (assume a humble attitude, humor, humour), alttan alma. (various references) спуск (alighting, chute, descent, down, downhill, way down), приниження (abasement, abjection, come down, debasement, depreciation, detraction, humiliation, mortification, stoop), поступка (cession, concession, rebate). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | descendam, descendamus, descendant, descendas, descendat, descendatis, descende, descendebant, descendebat, descendendi, descendens, descendent, descendente, descendentem, descendentes, descendentibus, descendentis, descendentium, descendentque, descenderant, descenderat, descendere, descenderem, descenderent, descenderes, descenderet, descenderint, descenderintque, descenderit, descendero, descenderunt, descenderuntque, descendes, descendet, descendetis, descendi, descendimus, descendique, descendissent, descendisset, descendissetque, descendisti, descendit, descendite, descenditis, descenditque, descendo, descendunt, descensione, descensu, descensum, descensus. (various references) |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-c-d-i-l-m-n-o-w" | |
-2 letters: cowbind. | |
-3 letters: codlin. | |
-4 letters: blind, blond, blown, cibol, climb, clomb, clown, colin, dolci, domic, indol, indow, limbo, nicol, wilco. | |
-5 letters: bind, blin, bloc, blow, boil, bold, bond, bowl, cion, clod, clon, coil, coin, cold, comb, coni, cowl, diol, down, icon, idol, lido, limb, limn, limo, lino, lion, loci, loin, lown, mild, milo, mind, modi. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)43 6C 69 6D 62 44 6F 77 6E |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000011 01101100 01101001 01101101 01100010 00100000 01000100 01101111 01110111 01101110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)C l i m b   D o w n |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0043 006C 0069 006D 0062 0044 006F 0077 006E |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)3778757968238818980 |
| Language | Coverage | Language Translations |
Albanian | fjalor, qartësi, përcaktim, saktësi, transmetim, transferim | shqip, الألبانية, الألباني, албанец, албански език, албански, albánský, Albanees, Albanais, albaner, αλβανικόσ, Αλβανός, αλβανόσ, albán, Albaneagh, albanês, arnãut, albanez, arnãuţesc, албанский, albanski, albanac, albanés, alban, Arnavut, албанський, албанка, албанець |
Arabic | معجم, قاموس, الوضوحية في الشيء, حد, تحديد, تعريف, التحديد, الإيضاحية, ترجمة من لغة أجنبية للغة الأم, ترجمة, إفتتان | arabishte, العربية, عربي, اللغة العربية, арабски език, арабски, arabský, arabština, arabe, arabisch, αραβικόσ, ערבית, ערבי, arab, Arabish, arabic, арабский, arapski, árabe, arabisk, arapça, arap, araplara özgü, арабська мова, арабський |
Bulgarian | речник, яснота, сила, очертания, дефиниция, транслация, превеждане, предаване, поддаване, тълкуване, огъване, превод | bulgr, البلغارية, بلغاري, български, български език, българин, bulharský, bulgare, 'ούλγαρος, bolgár, Bulgeyragh, Bulgeyrish, болгарский, болгарин, bugarski jezik, bugarski, bugarka, bugarin, búlgaro, bulgar, bulgaristan ile ilgili, болгарський |
Czech | slovník, definice, překlad | çek, تشيكي, اللغة التشيكوسلوفاكية, التشيكي أحد أبناء تشيكوسلوفاكيا, чешки, èesky, èeské, èech, èeština, èeský, èeška, Tsjech, Tsjechisch, tchèque, Tscheche, tschechisch, Tschechin, Τσέχος, cseh, Sheckagh, Sheckish, ceh, чешский, češki jezik, čeh, češki, checo, tjeck, Çek, çekoslovakyalı kimse, çekoslovakyalı, çek dili, чех, чеська мова, чеський, чешка |
Dutch | woordenboek, definitie, translatie | holandez, هولندي, اللغة الهولندية, холандски, немски език, холандски език, холандците, немски, holandský, nizozemský, néerlandais, holländisch, ολλανδικόσ, ολλανδόσ, "ול "י, holland, Ollanish, Germaanish, holandês, olandez, nemţesc, limba olandezã, german, голландский, holanđanin, u škripcu, holandski, holandés, holländsk, alman, eş, flemenkçe, holandaca, hollanda, karı, hollandalı, hollandalılara özgü olan, Hollandali, hollanda'ya ait, голландська мова, голландський |
Esperanto | vortaro, difino, traduko | الاسبرانتو لغة دولية, есперанто, esperanton, espéranto, εσπεράντο, אספר טו, eszperanto, eszperantó, эсперанто, esperanto, esperanto dili |
French | dictionnaire, définition, traduction | frëngjishte, frëng, franceze, اللغة الفرنسية, فرنسي, الشعب الفرنسي, френски език, френски, francouzský, francouzština, français, französisch, γαλλικόσ, γαλλική γλώσσα, γαλλίδα, γάλλοσ, צרפתית, צרפתי, francia, Ny Frangee, Mooinjey ny Frank, francês, francezii, franţuzesc, francezã, francez, franţuzeşte, французский, francuski jezik, francuski, francuzi, francés, fransk, franska, fransızca, fransız, Fransiz, fransızca ile ilgili, fransa ile ilgili, французька мова, французький |
German | Übersetzung, Wörterbuch, Definition | gjerman, ضرب من الرقص, جرماني, الماني, اللغة الألمانية, المانية, германски, немски език, немски, немец, роден, готически, германец, nìmec, nìmecký, Duitse, allemand, "ερμανός, 'רמ ית, 'רמ י, német, Germaanish, Germaanagh, Garmane, Carmane, alemão, neamţ, немецкий, germanski, alemán, tysk, alman, німкеня, німецький, німець |
Greek | λεξικό, ορισμός, μετάφραση | يوناني, اللغة اليونانية, الإغريقي, гръцки език, гръцки, грък, řek, řecký, řeètina, grec, grieche, ελληνικόσ, 'Ελληνας, יו ית, יו י, görög, Greagish, Greagagh, grego, greacã, греческий, грек, grčki, grk, grčki jezik, griego, grek, yunanistan'a ait, yunanca, yunan, Yunanli, yunanlı, Rumca, rum, грецький, гречанка, грецька мова |
Hebrew | אוצר מילים, "'"ר", "'בל", תור'מ ות, תר'ום, "עתק", "עתק | hebraishte, اليهودية, اللغة العبرية, يهودي, عبري, العبرية, иврит, староеврейски език, древен жител на юдея, юдейски, израилтянин, евреин, староеврейски, юдей, hebrejský, hebrejec, hebrejka, hebrejština, joods, Hebreeuws, hébreu, hebräisch, Hebräer, εβραϊκόσ, εβραϊκά, εβραίοσ, עברי, עברית, zsidó, héber, izraelita, Ewagh, Ewnish, Ew, hebreu, hebraico, limba ebraicã, izraelit, evreu, evreiesc, ebraic, еврей, древнееврейский язык, древнееврейский, еврейский, hibru, hebreo, jude, hebreiska, hebreisk, musevi, ibranice, ibrani, іудей, іврит, старо"врейська мова, старо"врейський, "врейський, "врей |
Hungarian | szótár, meghatározás, definíció, fordítás | مجري, المجري, الهنغاري, هنغاري, اللغة الهنغارية, унгарски език, унгарски, унгарец, maïarský, maïarština, maïar, Hongaarse, hongrois, Ungar, Ούγγρος, "ו 'רי, magyar, Ungaarish, Ungaaragh, unguresc, limba ungarã, limba maghiarã, ungureşte, ungur, maghiar, венгр, венгерский, mađarski jezik, mađarski, mađar, húngaro, ungrare, macarca, macar, угорська мова, угорський, угорка, угорець |
Manx | fockleyr, geyrid, meenaghey, keeayllaght, baght | gjuha e popullsisë së ishullit men, manština, manský, manx, mann-szigeti nyelv, Manninish, Manninagh, Gaelgagh, Yn Ghaelg, язык жителей о-ва мэн, с о-ва мэн, s ostrva mana, los habitantes de la isla de man, lengua de la isla de man, de la isla de man, från ön man, man adası, man dili, менський, менський діалект |
Portuguese | dicionário, definição, tradução | portugez, portugalisht, اللغة البرتغالية, البرتغالية, البرتغالي, португалски, португалски език, португалец, portugalský, portugais, portugiesisch, πορτογάλοσ, ορτογάλος, portugál, Portiugish, Portiugagh, português, portughez, португальский, portugalski jezik, portugalac, portugalski, portugués, portugis, portekizce, portekiz, Portekízlí, portekizli, португальський, португальська мова, португалець |
Romanian | dicţionar, definiţie, determinare, definire, translaţie, traducere, tãlmãcire | rumun, румънски език, румънски, румънец, rumunský, rumunština, Roemeens, Roumain, rumäne, ρουμανόσ, Ρουμάνος, román, Roomainagh, romeno, român, румынский, румын, rumunski jezik, rumunski, rumano, rumänsk, румунський, румунка, румунська мова, румун |
Russian | словарь, определение, трансляция, сдвиг, перевод, перемещение | روسي, اللغة الروسية, الروسية, руски език, руски, руснак, ruština, ruský, Russe, russisch, Ρώσος, רוסי, orosz, Rooshish, Rooshagh, русский, ruski jezik, ruski, ruso, ryss, Rusça, росіянка, росіянин, російська мова, російський |
Serbo-Croatian | leksikon, rečnik, definicija, tumačenje | serbokroatisch, servo-croata, sârbo-croat, srpsko-hrvatski jezik, srpsko-hrvatski, serbokroatiska, serbokroatisk |
Spanish | diccionario, definición, traducción | spanjoll, اللغة الأسبانية, الأسبانية, أسباني, испански език, испански, španìlský, španìlština, Spaans, espagnol, spanisch, ισπανικά, ισπανικόσ, ισπανοί, ספר"ית, ספר"י, spanyol, Spaainish, Spaainagh, espanhol, spaniol, spaniolesc, spanioleşte, испанский, španski, španski jezik, español, spanska språk, spansk, ispanyollar, ispanyol, ispanyolca, іспанський, іспанська мова |
Swedish | ordbok, lexikon, översättning | suedez, اللغة السويدية, шведски, шведски език, швед, švédský, švédština, Zweeds, suédois, schwedisch, σουηδικόσ, σουηδικά, svéd, Soolynish, Soolynagh, шведский, švedski jezik, švedski, sueco, svensk, isveççe, isveç dili, isveç, Ísveçlí, шведська мова, шведський |
Turkish | sözlük, ansiklopedik sözlük, açıklama, belirleme, belirtme, kesinleştirme, tanım, tarif, seçiklik, tanımlama, tercüme | turk, تركي أحد أبناء تركيا, اللغة التركية, турски език, турски, turecký, tureètina, turque, türkisch, τούρκικοσ, טורקי, török, Yn Turkish, Turkagh, turcesc, turc, турецкий, turski jezik, turski, turco, turkisk, türkçe, türk, турецький, турецька мова |
Ukrainian | словник, довідник, чіткість, тлумачення, виразність, визначення, дефініція, ясність, чітка чутність, процес перекладу, переклад, пояснення, переміщення | ukrainisht, ukrainas, أوكراني أحد أبناء أوكرانيا, الأوكراني, украинец, украински език, ukrajinec, ukrajinština, ukrajinský, ukrajinka, Oekraïens, ukraino, ukraina, ukrainien, ukrainisch, ukrainerin, Ukrainer, ουκρανικόσ, Ουκρανός, ουκρανόσ, ukrán, Ookraanagh, Ookraanish, ucraniano, ucrainean, украинский язык, украинский, украинец украинский, ukrajinski, ukrajina, ucranio, ukrainare, ukraynalı, ukrayna, ukraynaca, український, українець |
English | Dictionary, Definition, Translation | anglezët, anglez, gjuhë zngleze, anglishte, anglisht, الإنجليزية, الأنكليزي, إنكليزي, ترجمة إنكليزية, اللغة الإنكليزية, английски език, английски, англичаните, anglicky, anglan, anglais, englisch, εγγλέζοσ, αγγλικόσ, א 'לית, angol, Sostynagh, Sostnagh, Baarlagh, inglês, englezesc, английский, engleski, englez, engleski jezik, inglés, engelsk, ingiltere, ingiliz, Íngílízce, ingilizce, Íngílíz, ýngilizce, англійський, англійці, англійська мова |
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