Climb vs. Rise — What's the Difference?

To move upward, especially by using the hands and feet

To assume a standing position after lying, sitting, or kneeling.

To move in a specified direction by using the hands and feet

To get out of bed

To engage in the activity or sport of mountain climbing.

To move from a lower to a higher position; ascend

To rise slowly or steadily; ascend

To increase in size, volume, or level

To slant or slope upward

To increase in number, amount, or value

To grow in an upward direction, as some plants do, often by means of twining stems or tendrils.

To increase in intensity, force, or speed

To move upward on or mount, especially by using the hands and feet or the feet alone; ascend

To increase in pitch or volume

To grow in an upward direction on or over

To ascend above the horizon

An act of climbing; an ascent

To extend upward; be prominent

A place to be climbed

To slant or slope upward

(intransitive) To ascend; rise; to go up.

To come into existence; originate

(transitive) To mount; to move upwards on.

To be erected

(transitive) To scale; to get to the top of something.

To appear at the surface of the water or the earth; emerge.

(transitive) To move (especially up and down something) by gripping with the hands and using the feet.

To puff up or become larger; swell up

(intransitive) to practise the sport of climbing

To become stiff and erect

(intransitive) to jump high

To attain a higher status

To move to a higher position on the social ladder.

To become apparent to the mind or senses

(botany) Of plants, to grow upwards by clinging to something.

To uplift oneself to meet a demand or challenge

An act of climbing.

To return to life

The act of getting to somewhere more elevated.

To rebel

An upwards struggle

To close a session of an official assembly; adjourn.

To ascend or mount laboriously, esp. by use of the hands and feet.

To cause to rise

To ascend as if with effort; to rise to a higher point.

To cause (a distant object at sea) to become visible above the horizon by advancing closer.

To ascend or creep upward by twining about a support, or by attaching itself by tendrils, rootlets, etc., to a support or upright surface.

The act of rising; an ascent.

To ascend, as by means of the hands and feet, or laboriously or slowly; to mount.

The degree of elevation or ascent.

The act of one who climbs; ascent by climbing.

The first appearance of a celestial object as it ascends above the horizon.

An upward slope or grade (as in a road);

An increase in height, as of the level of water.

An event that involves rising to a higher point (as in altitude or temperature or intensity etc.)

A gently sloped hill.

The act of climbing something;

A long broad elevation that slopes gently from the earth's surface or the ocean floor.

Go upward with gradual or continuous progress;

An origin, beginning, or source

Move with difficulty, by grasping

Occasion or opportunity

Go up or advance;

The emergence of a fish seeking food or bait at the water's surface.

Slope upward;

An increase in price, worth, quantity, or degree.

Improve one's social status;

An increase in intensity, volume, or pitch.

Increase in value or to a higher point;

Elevation in status, prosperity, or importance

The height of a flight of stairs or of a single riser.

Chiefly British An increase in salary or wages; a raise.

(Informal) An angry or irritated reaction

The distance between the crotch and waistband in pants, shorts, or underwear.

(intransitive) To move, or appear to move, physically upwards relative to the ground.

To move upwards.

To grow upward; to attain a certain height.

To slope upward.

(of a celestial body) To appear to move upwards from behind the horizon of a planet as a result of the planet's rotation.

To become erect; to assume an upright position.

To leave one's bed; to get up.

(figurative) To be resurrected.

(figurative) To terminate an official sitting; to adjourn.

(intransitive) To increase in value or standing.

To attain a higher status.

Of a quantity, price, etc., to increase.

To become more and more dignified or forcible; to increase in interest or power; said of style, thought, or discourse.

To ascend on a musical scale; to take a higher pitch.

To begin, to develop; to be initiated.

To become active, effective or operational, especially in response to an external or internal stimulus.

To develop.

To swell or puff up in the process of fermentation; to become light.

(of a river) To have its source (in a particular place).

To become perceptible to the senses, other than sight.

To become agitated, opposed, or hostile; to go to war; to take up arms; to rebel.

To come to mind; to be suggested; to occur.

(transitive) To go up; to ascend; to climb.

(transitive) To cause to go up or ascend.

(obsolete) To retire; to give up a siege.

To come; to offer itself.

To be lifted, or capable of being lifted, from the imposing stone without dropping any of the type; said of a form.

The process of or an action or instance of moving upwards or becoming greater.

The process of or an action or instance of coming to prominence.

An increase in a quantity, price, etc.

Ellipsis of pay risean increase in wage or salary.

The amount of material extending from waist to crotch in a pair of trousers or shorts.

(Sussex) A small hill; used chiefly in place names.

An area of terrain that tends upward away from the viewer, such that it conceals the region behind it; a slope.

(informal) A very noticeable visible or audible reaction of a person or group.

(architecture) The height of an arch or a step.

Alternative form of rice

To move from a lower position to a higher; to ascend; to mount up. Specifically: - (a) To go upward by walking, climbing, flying, or any other voluntary motion; as, a bird rises in the air; a fish rises to the bait.

To ascend or float in a fluid, as gases or vapors in air, cork in water, and the like.

To have the aspect or the effect of rising.

To move upward under the influence of a projecting force; as, a bullet rises in the air.

To appear above the horizont, as the sun, moon, stars, and the like.

To increase in size, force, or value; to proceed toward a climax.

To grow upward; to attain a certain height; as, this elm rises to the height of seventy feet.

To become apparent; to emerge into sight; to come forth; to appear; as, an eruption rises on the skin; the land rises to view to one sailing toward the shore.

To increase in power or fury; - said of wind or a storm, and hence, of passion.

In various figurative senses.

To reach a higher level by increase of quantity or bulk; to swell; as, a river rises in its bed; the mercury rises in the thermometer.

To become perceptible to other senses than sight; as, a noise rose on the air; odor rises from the flower.

To become of higher value; to increase in price.

To become excited, opposed, or hostile; to go to war; to take up arms; to rebel.

To ascend from the grave; to come to life.

To become erect; to assume an upright position; as, to rise from a chair or from a fall.

To have a beginning; to proceed; to originate; as, rivers rise in lakes or springs.

To become larger; to swell; - said of a boil, tumor, and the like.

To attain to a better social position; to be promoted; to excel; to succeed.

To terminate an official sitting; to adjourn; as, the committee rose after agreeing to the report.

To leave one's bed; to arise; as, to rise early.

To increase in intensity; - said of heat.

To become more and more dignified or forcible; to increase in interest or power; - said of style, thought, or discourse; as, to rise in force of expression; to rise in eloquence; a story rises in interest.

To ascend on a musical scale; to take a higher pith; as, to rise a tone or semitone.

To tower up; to be heaved up; as, the Alps rise far above the sea.

To become louder, or higher in pitch, as the voice.

To come to mind; to be suggested; to occur.

To be lifted, or to admit of being lifted, from the imposing stone without dropping any of the type; - said of a form.

To slope upward; as, a path, a line, or surface rises in this direction.

To increase in amount; to enlarge; as, his expenses rose beyond his expectations.

To come; to offer itself.

To retire; to give up a siege.

To swell or puff up in the process of fermentation; to become light, as dough, and the like.

To go up; to ascend; to climb; as, to rise a hill.

To cause to rise; as, to rise a fish, or cause it to come to the surface of the water; to rise a ship, or bring it above the horizon by approaching it; to raise.

The act of rising, or the state of being risen.

The distance through which anything rises; as, the rise of the thermometer was ten degrees; the rise of the river was six feet; the rise of an arch or of a step.

Land which is somewhat higher than the rest; as, the house stood on a rise of land.

Spring; source; origin; as, the rise of a stream.

Appearance above the horizon; as, the rise of the sun or of a planet.

Increase; advance; augmentation, as of price, value, rank, property, fame, and the like.

Increase of sound; a swelling of the voice.

Elevation or ascent of the voice; upward change of key; as, a rise of a tone or semitone.

The spring of a fish to seize food (as a fly) near the surface of the water.

A growth in strength or number or importance

The act of changing location in an upward direction

An upward slope or grade (as in a road);

A movement upward;

The amount a salary is increased;

The property possessed by a slope or surface that rises

A wave that lifts the surface of the water or ground

(theology) the origination of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost;

An increase in cost;

Increase in price or value;

Move upward;

Increase in value or to a higher point;

Rise to one's feet;

Rise up;

Come to the surface

Become more extreme;

Come into existence; take on form or shape;

Be promoted, move to a better position

Go up or advance;

Get up and out of bed;

Rise in rank or status;

Increase in volume;

Become heartened or elated;

Exert oneself to meet a challenge;

Take part in a rebellion; renounce a former allegiance

Come up, of celestial bodies;

Return from the dead;