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US
/ˈkɝv/
]
[ UK /kˈɜːv/ ]
[ UK /kˈɜːv/ ]
NOUN
- curved segment (of a road or river or railroad track etc.)
- a line on a graph representing data
- the property possessed by the curving of a line or surface
- a pitch of a baseball that is thrown with spin so that its path curves as it approaches the batter
- the trace of a point whose direction of motion changes
VERB
-
form a curl, curve, or kink
the cigar smoke curled up at the ceiling -
turn sharply; change direction abruptly
The motorbike veered to the right
The car cut to the left at the intersection -
extend in curves and turns
The road winds around the lake
the path twisted through the forest -
bend or cause to bend
He crooked his index finger
the road curved sharply -
form an arch or curve
her back arches
her hips curve nicely
How To Use curve In A Sentence
- If it were a little more curved it would collapse, imploding on itself in a cosmic crunch; a little less curved, and every star, planet, sun and galaxy would fly apart from each other and so would every atom of matter in each of them.
- This gave the Roman soldier a great deal of protection as it curved around his body.
- Working with steel requires different tools and skills, so there is a big learning curve for carpenters.
- The forest all along the mountain curve was spotted with dots of red, yellow, purple and gold, trees just beginning to turn with the season.
- I found the head of the flat humerus so characteristic of the extinct order to which the Plesiosaurus has been assigned, and two digital bones of the paddle, that, from their comparatively slender and slightly curved form, so unlike the digitals of its cogener the The Cruise of the Betsey or, A Summer Ramble Among the Fossiliferous Deposits of the Hebrides. With Rambles of a Geologist or, Ten Thousand Miles Over the Fossiliferous Deposits of Scotland
- She and I were laughing and joking as the car whipped round curves at 70 mph.
- By the time the higher elevations are reached, such strange notions as Einsteinian curved space-time and the quantum uncertainty principle, heavy meals indeed, seem not so difficult to digest.
- Or “incurve,” a term commonly used as the nineteenth century became the twentieth. The Neyer/James Guide To Pitchers
- In this paper, the design of curve of grooved drum is researched, which deduced two types of circular cone curves analytic formula of grooved drum.
- Its curved frame suggests almost a modern reinterpretation of the bentwood chair.