Creep vs Climb - What's the difference?
creep | climb |
To move slowly with the abdomen close to the ground.
* 1922 , (Margery Williams), (The Velveteen Rabbit)
Of plants, to grow across a surface rather than upwards.
To move slowly and quietly in a particular direction.
To make small gradual changes, usually in a particular direction.
To move in a stealthy or secret manner; to move imperceptibly or clandestinely; to steal in; to insinuate itself or oneself.
* John Locke
To slip, or to become slightly displaced.
To move or behave with servility or exaggerated humility; to fawn.
* Shakespeare
To have a sensation as of insects creeping on the skin of the body; to crawl.
To drag in deep water with creepers, as for recovering a submarine cable.
The movement of something that creeps (like worms or snails)
A relatively small gradual change, variation or deviation (from a planned value) in a measure.
A slight displacement of an object: the slight movement of something
The gradual expansion or proliferation of something beyond its original goals or boundaries, considered negatively.
(publishing) In sewn books, the tendency of pages on the inside of a quire to stand out farther than those on the outside of it.
(materials science) An increase in strain with time; the gradual flow or deformation of a material under stress.
(geology) The imperceptible downslope movement of surface rock.
(informal, pejorative) An annoying irritating person
(informal, pejorative) A frightening and/or disconcerting person, especially one who gives the speaker chills or who induces psychosomatic facial itching.
(agriculture) A barrier with small openings used to keep large animals out while allowing smaller animals to pass through.
To ascend; rise; to go up.
* Dryden
To mount; to move upwards on.
To scale; to get to the top of something.
* {{quote-news, year=2010, date=May 22, author=David Harrison
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To move (especially up and down something) by gripping with the hands and using the feet.
* 1900 , (James Frazer), (The Golden Bough) Chapter 65
* 1900 , , ''(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz)
* 2008 , Tony Atkins, Dragonhawk - the Turning
to practise the sport of climbing
to jump high
* {{quote-news, year=2010, date=December 28
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To move to a higher position on the social ladder.
(botany) Of plants, to grow upwards by clinging to something.
An act of climbing.
* 2007 , Nigel Shepherd, Complete Guide to Rope Techniques
The act of getting to somewhere more elevated.
* 2012 , July 15. Richard Williams in Guardian Unlimited,
* 1999 , B. Keith Jones, The Roomie Do Me Blues
An upwards struggle
* {{quote-news
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, date=September 30
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In intransitive terms the difference between creep and climb
is that creep is to make small gradual changes, usually in a particular direction while climb is to jump high.As a proper noun CREEP
is the Committee to Re-elect the President, which raised money for Richard Nixon's campaign for 1972 reelection.creep
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) crepen, from (etyl) .Verb
- Lizards and snakes crept over the ground.
- One evening, while the Rabbit was lying there alone, watching the ants that ran to and fro between his velvet paws in the grass, he saw two strange beings creep out of the tall bracken near him.
- He tried to creep past the guard without being seen.
- Prices have been creeping up all year.
- Old age creeps upon us.
- the sophistry which creeps into most of the books of argument
- The collodion on a negative, or a coat of varnish, may creep in drying.
- The quicksilver on a mirror may creep .
- a creeping sycophant
- to come as humbly as they used to creep
- The sight made my flesh creep .
Synonyms
* (move slowly with the abdomen close to the ground) crawl * (grow across a surface rather than upwards) * (move slowly and quietly in a particular direction) * (make small gradual changes)Derived terms
* creep up on * creepy / creepy-crawly * give someone the creeps * creep someone outEtymology 2
From the above verb.Noun
(en noun)- Christmas creep'''. Feature '''creep'''. Instruction '''creep'''. Mission ' creep
- Stop following me, you creep !
Derived terms
* bracket creep * Christmas creep * feature creep * focus creep * function creep ((function creep)) * instruction creep ((instruction creep)) * mission creep ((mission creep)) * requirement creep ((requirement creep)) * scope creep * season creepAnagrams
* English irregular verbsclimb
English
Verb
- Prices climbed steeply.
- Black vapours climb aloft, and cloud the day.
- They climbed the mountain.
- Climbing a tree
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- A priest clad in a white robe climbs the tree and with a golden sickle cuts the mistletoe, which is caught in a white cloth.
- She thought she must have been mistaken at first, for none of the scarecrows in Kansas ever wink; but presently the figure nodded its head to her in a friendly way. Then she climbed down from the fence and walked up to it, while Toto ran around the pole and barked.
- Cutter and Bolan climbed around the furniture and piled into the back of the truck.
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Usage notes
In the past, the forms clomb'' and ''clumb were encountered as simple past and past participle forms; these forms are now archaic or dialectical.Derived terms
* climb down * climb down someone's throat * climb up * climb the ladder * climb the walls * climber * declimb * have a mountain to climb * unclimbedSynonyms
(get to the top of) * scaleNoun
(wikipedia climb) (en noun)- Make sure that you keep checking to see that everything remains safe throughout the climb .
Tour de France 2012: Carpet tacks cannot force Bradley Wiggins off track
- The Mur de Péguère is a savage little climb , its last four kilometres a narrow tunnel of trees and excited spectators urging on the straining riders.
- I guess the room wasn't so bad, except for the climb to get there. The stairs were destined to be a serious health hazard.
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