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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

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