Climb vs. Slope — What's the Difference?

To move upward, especially by using the hands and feet

In mathematics, the slope or gradient of a line is a number that describes both the direction and the steepness of the line. Slope is often denoted by the letter m; there is no clear answer to the question why the letter m is used for slope, but its earliest use in English appears in O'Brien (1844) who wrote the equation of a straight line as "y = mx + b" and it can also be found in Todhunter (1888) who wrote it as "y = mx + c".Slope is calculated by finding the ratio of the "vertical change" to the "horizontal change" between (any) two distinct points on a line.

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

A surface of which one end or side is at a higher level than another; a rising or falling surface

To engage in the activity or sport of mountain climbing.

A person from East Asia, especially Vietnam.

To rise slowly or steadily; ascend

(of a surface or line) be inclined from a horizontal or vertical line; slant up or down

To slant or slope upward

Move in an idle or aimless manner

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

To diverge from the vertical or horizontal; incline

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

To move or walk

To grow in an upward direction on or over

To cause to slope

An act of climbing; an ascent

An inclined line, surface, plane, position, or direction.

A place to be climbed

A stretch of ground forming a natural or artificial incline

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

A deviation from the horizontal.

(transitive) To mount; to move upwards on.

The amount or degree of such deviation.

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

The rate at which an ordinate of a point of a line on a coordinate plane changes with respect to a change in the abscissa.

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

The tangent of the angle of inclination of a line, or the slope of the tangent line for a curve or surface.

(intransitive) to practise the sport of climbing

Offensive Slang Used as a disparaging term for a person of East Asian birth or ancestry.

(intransitive) to jump high

An area of ground that tends evenly upward or downward.

To move to a higher position on the social ladder.

The degree to which a surface tends upward or downward.

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

(mathematics) The ratio of the vertical and horizontal distances between two points on a line; zero if the line is horizontal, undefined if it is vertical.

An act of climbing.

(mathematics) The slope of the line tangent to a curve at a given point.

The act of getting to somewhere more elevated.

The angle a roof surface makes with the horizontal, expressed as a ratio of the units of vertical rise to the units of horizontal length (sometimes referred to as run).

An upwards struggle

A person of Chinese or other East Asian descent.

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

(intransitive) To tend steadily upward or downward.

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

(transitive) To form with a slope; to give an oblique or slanting direction to; to incline or slant.

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

To try to move surreptitiously.

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

(military) To hold a rifle at a slope with forearm perpendicular to the body in front holding the butt, the rifle resting on the shoulder.

The act of one who climbs; ascent by climbing.

(obsolete) Sloping.

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

(obsolete) slopingly

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

An oblique direction; a line or direction including from a horizontal line or direction; also, sometimes, an inclination, as of one line or surface to another.

The act of climbing something;

Any ground whose surface forms an angle with the plane of the horizon.

Go upward with gradual or continuous progress;

The part of a continent descending toward, and draining to, a particular ocean; as, the Pacific slope.

Move with difficulty, by grasping

Sloping.

Go up or advance;

In a sloping manner.

Slope upward;

To form with a slope; to give an oblique or slanting direction to; to direct obliquely; to incline; to slant; as, to slope the ground in a garden; to slope a piece of cloth in cutting a garment.

Improve one's social status;

To take an oblique direction; to be at an angle with the plane of the horizon; to incline; as, the ground slopes.

Increase in value or to a higher point;

To depart; to disappear suddenly.

An elevated geological formation;

The property possessed by a line or surface that departs from the horizontal;

Be at an angle;