CURVE

curve, curve ball, breaking ball, bender

(noun) a pitch of a baseball that is thrown with spin so that its path curves as it approaches the batter

bend, curve

(noun) curved segment (of a road or river or railroad track etc.)

curvature, curve

(noun) the property possessed by the curving of a line or surface

curve

(noun) a line on a graph representing data

curve, curved shape

(noun) the trace of a point whose direction of motion changes

curl, curve, kink

(verb) form a curl, curve, or kink; “the cigar smoke curled up at the ceiling”

swerve, sheer, curve, trend, veer, slue, slew, cut

(verb) turn sharply; change direction abruptly; “The car cut to the left at the intersection”; “The motorbike veered to the right”

crook, curve

(verb) bend or cause to bend; “He crooked his index finger”; “the road curved sharply”

arch, curve, arc

(verb) form an arch or curve; “her back arches”; “her hips curve nicely”

wind, twist, curve

(verb) extend in curves and turns; “The road winds around the lake”; “the path twisted through the forest”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology

Adjective

curve

(obsolete) Bent without angles; crooked; curved.

Noun

curve (plural curves)

A gentle bend, such as in a road.

A simple figure containing no straight portions and no angles; a curved line.

A grading system based on the scale of performance of a group used to normalize a right-skewed grade distribution (with more lower scores) into a bell curve, so that more can receive higher grades, regardless of their actual knowledge of the subject.

(analytic geometry) A continuous map from a one-dimensional space to a multidimensional space.

(geometry) A one-dimensional figure of non-zero length; the graph of a continuous map from a one-dimensional space.

(algebraic geometry) An algebraic curve; a polynomial relation of the planar coordinates.

(topology) A one-dimensional continuum.

(informal, usually, in the plural) The attractive shape of a woman's body.

Verb

curve (third-person singular simple present curves, present participle curving, simple past and past participle curved)

(transitive) To bend; to crook.

(transitive) To cause to swerve from a straight course.

(intransitive) To bend or turn gradually from a given direction.

(transitive) To grade on a curve (bell curve of a normal distribution).

(transitive) (slang) To reject, to turn down romantic advances.

Anagrams

• cruve

Source: Wiktionary

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Curve (krv), a. Etym: [L. curvus bent, curved. See Cirb.]

Definition: Bent without angles; crooked; curved; as, a curve line; a curve surface.

Curve, n. Etym: [See Curve, a., Cirb.]

1. A bending without angles; that wcich is bent; a flexure; as, a curve in a railway or canal.

2. (Geom.)

Definition: A line described according to some low, and having no finite portion of it a straight line. Axis of a curve. See under Axis.

– Curve of quickest descent. See Brachystochrone.

– Curve tracing (Math.), the process of determining the shape, location, singular points, and other perculiarities of a curve from its equation.

– Plane curve (Geom.), a curve such that when a plane passes through three points of the curve, it passes through all the other points of the curve. Any other curve is called a curve of double curvature, or a twisted curve.

Curve, v. t. [imp. & p.p. Curved (krvd); p. pr. & vb. n. Curving.] Etym: [L. curvare., fr. curvus. See Curve, a., Curb.]

Definition: To bend; to crook; as, to curve a line; to curve a pipe; to cause to swerve from a straight course; as, to curve a ball in pitching it.

Curve, v. i.

Definition: To bend or turn gradually from a given direction; as, the road curves to the right.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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