Crawling vs Climbing - What's the difference?
crawling | climbing |
The motion of something that crawls.
* Charles Dickens, The Old Curiosity Shop
(uncountable) The sport of climbing, ascending a wall or a rock or another object using available holds, generally with the safety of a rope and belayer.
(countable) Climb; ascent.
(botany, of a plant) That climbs; that grows upwards by gripping onto a surface.
As verbs the difference between crawling and climbing
is that crawling is while climbing is .As nouns the difference between crawling and climbing
is that crawling is the motion of something that crawls while climbing is (uncountable) the sport of climbing, ascending a wall or a rock or another object using available holds, generally with the safety of a rope and belayer.As an adjective climbing is
(botany|of a plant) that climbs; that grows upwards by gripping onto a surface.crawling
English
(wikipedia crawling)Verb
(head)Noun
(en noun)- Miss Brass devoted herself with uncommon ardour to the study of the law; not wasting her speculations upon its eagle flights, which are rare, but tracing it attentively through all the slippery and eel-like crawlings in which it commonly pursues its way.