Climb vs. Slope — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Climb and Slope
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Definitions
Climb➦
To move upward, especially by using the hands and feet
We climbed until we reached the shelter. The truck climbed the mountain highway.
Slope➦
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.
Climb➦
To move in a specified direction by using the hands and feet
Climbed down the ladder.
Climbed out the window.
Slope➦
A surface of which one end or side is at a higher level than another; a rising or falling surface
He slithered helplessly down the slope
Climb➦
To engage in the activity or sport of mountain climbing.
Slope➦
A person from East Asia, especially Vietnam.
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Climb➦
To rise slowly or steadily; ascend
The plane climbed into the clouds.
Slope➦
(of a surface or line) be inclined from a horizontal or vertical line; slant up or down
The garden sloped down to a stream
The ceiling sloped
Climb➦
To slant or slope upward
The road climbs steeply to the top.
Slope➦
Move in an idle or aimless manner
I had seen Don sloping about the beach
Climb➦
To grow in an upward direction, as some plants do, often by means of twining stems or tendrils.
Slope➦
To diverge from the vertical or horizontal; incline
A roof that slopes.
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Climb➦
To move upward on or mount, especially by using the hands and feet or the feet alone; ascend
The hikers climbed the mountain. We climbed the stairs. The tractor climbed the hill.
Slope➦
To move or walk
"Without another word he turned and sloped off down the driveway" (Roald Dahl).
Climb➦
To grow in an upward direction on or over
Ivy climbing the walls.
Slope➦
To cause to slope
Sloped the path down the bank.
Climb➦
An act of climbing; an ascent
A long, exhausting climb to the top.
Slope➦
An inclined line, surface, plane, position, or direction.
Climb➦
A place to be climbed
The face of the cliff was a steep climb.
Slope➦
A stretch of ground forming a natural or artificial incline
Ski slopes.
Climb➦
(intransitive) To ascend; rise; to go up.
Prices climbed steeply.
Slope➦
A deviation from the horizontal.
Climb➦
(transitive) To mount; to move upwards on.
They climbed the mountain.
Climbing a tree
Slope➦
The amount or degree of such deviation.
Climb➦
(transitive) To scale; to get to the top of something.
Slope➦
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.
Climb➦
(transitive) To move (especially up and down something) by gripping with the hands and using the feet.
Slope➦
The tangent of the angle of inclination of a line, or the slope of the tangent line for a curve or surface.
Climb➦
(intransitive) to practise the sport of climbing
Slope➦
Offensive Slang Used as a disparaging term for a person of East Asian birth or ancestry.
Climb➦
(intransitive) to jump high
Slope➦
An area of ground that tends evenly upward or downward.
I had to climb a small slope to get to the site.
A steep slope
Climb➦
To move to a higher position on the social ladder.
Slope➦
The degree to which a surface tends upward or downward.
The road has a very sharp downward slope at that point.
Climb➦
(botany) Of plants, to grow upwards by clinging to something.
Slope➦
(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.
The slope of this line is 0.5
Climb➦
An act of climbing.
Slope➦
(mathematics) The slope of the line tangent to a curve at a given point.
The slope of a parabola increases linearly with x.
Climb➦
The act of getting to somewhere more elevated.
Slope➦
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).
The slope of an asphalt shingle roof system should be 4:12 or greater.
Climb➦
An upwards struggle
Slope➦
A person of Chinese or other East Asian descent.
Climb➦
To ascend or mount laboriously, esp. by use of the hands and feet.
Slope➦
(intransitive) To tend steadily upward or downward.
The road slopes sharply down at that point.
Climb➦
To ascend as if with effort; to rise to a higher point.
Black vapors climb aloft, and cloud the day.
Slope➦
(transitive) To form with a slope; to give an oblique or slanting direction to; to incline or slant.
To slope the ground in a garden;
To slope a piece of cloth in cutting a garment
Climb➦
To ascend or creep upward by twining about a support, or by attaching itself by tendrils, rootlets, etc., to a support or upright surface.
Slope➦
To try to move surreptitiously.
I sloped in through the back door, hoping my boss wouldn't see me.
Climb➦
To ascend, as by means of the hands and feet, or laboriously or slowly; to mount.
Slope➦
(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 order was given to "slope arms".
Climb➦
The act of one who climbs; ascent by climbing.
Slope➦
(obsolete) Sloping.
Climb➦
An upward slope or grade (as in a road);
The car couldn't make it up the rise
Slope➦
(obsolete) slopingly
Climb➦
An event that involves rising to a higher point (as in altitude or temperature or intensity etc.)
Slope➦
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.
Climb➦
The act of climbing something;
It was a difficult climb to the top
Slope➦
Any ground whose surface forms an angle with the plane of the horizon.
Buildings the summit and slope of a hill.
Under the slopes of Pisgah.
Climb➦
Go upward with gradual or continuous progress;
Did you ever climb up the hill behind your house?
Slope➦
The part of a continent descending toward, and draining to, a particular ocean; as, the Pacific slope.
Climb➦
Move with difficulty, by grasping
Slope➦
Sloping.
A bank not steep, but gently slope.
Climb➦
Go up or advance;
Sales were climbing after prices were lowered
Slope➦
In a sloping manner.
Climb➦
Slope upward;
The path climbed all the way to the top of the hill
Slope➦
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.
Climb➦
Improve one's social status;
This young man knows how to climb the social ladder
Slope➦
To take an oblique direction; to be at an angle with the plane of the horizon; to incline; as, the ground slopes.
Climb➦
Increase in value or to a higher point;
Prices climbed steeply
The value of our house rose sharply last year
Slope➦
To depart; to disappear suddenly.
Slope➦
An elevated geological formation;
He climbed the steep slope
The house was built on the side of the mountain
Slope➦
The property possessed by a line or surface that departs from the horizontal;
A five-degree gradient
Slope➦
Be at an angle;
The terrain sloped down