kerb vs curb

kerb

Definitions

noun

  1. an edge between a sidewalk and a roadway consisting of a line of curbstones (usually forming part of a gutter)

Examples

A perfect mob of street urchins, loafers, shop-men and bar-keepers who could spare a bit of time, lined up in front of the Palace Hotel and watched the plaid-coated, gray-capped visitors in short knickerbockers and golf stockings puff their pipes around the bar and call for "Porter and h'ale, 'alf and

'The rate has plateaued, which is what particular people said in the past that it would do without kerbside.'

They were going to the pelican crossing, but stepped off the kerb because they were frightened by a dog on the pavement.

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curb

Definitions

noun

  1. a stock exchange in New York

Examples

Alfred Nobel invented dynamite, a product in which the explosion-prone nitroglycerin is curbed by being absorbed in kieselguhr, a porous soil rich in shells of diatoms.

Inflation needs to be curbed in Russia.

The Mullahs remained a dominant influence until the twentieth century when the Pahlavis attempted to curb them.

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