climb vs slope

climb

verb
  • To ascend; rise; to go up. 

  • To mount; to move upwards on. 

  • To move to a higher position on the social ladder. 

  • to jump high 

  • Of plants, to grow upwards by clinging to something. 

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

  • to practise the sport of climbing 

  • To scale; to get to the top of something. 

noun
  • The act of getting to somewhere more elevated. 

  • An upwards struggle 

  • An act of climbing. 

slope

verb
  • To tend steadily upward or downward. 

  • To try to move surreptitiously. 

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

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

noun
  • The slope of the line tangent to a curve at a given point. 

  • An area of ground that tends evenly upward or downward. 

  • A person of Chinese or other East Asian descent. 

  • 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 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 degree to which a surface tends upward or downward. 

How often have the words climb and slope occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )