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Definition of 'Curve'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (n.) curve
a continuously bending line, without angles.

2.  curve
the act or extent of curving.

3.  curve
any curved outline, form, thing, or part.

4.  curve
a curved section of a road, railroad track, path, etc.

5.  curve
Also called curve ball.

6.  curve
a baseball pitch delivered with a spin that causes the ball to veer from a normal straight path, away from the side from which it was thrown.

7.  curve
a graphic representation of the variations effected in something by the influence of changing conditions; graph.

8.  curve
Math. a collection of points whose coordinates are continuous functions of a single independent variable.

9.  curve
a misleading or deceptive trick.

10.  curve
an academic grading system based on the scale of performance of the group, so that those performing better, regardless of their actual knowledge, receive higher grades:
to mark on a curve.

11.  curve
a curved guide used in drafting.

12. (v.i.) curve
to bend in a curve; take the course of a curve.

13. (v.t.) curve
to cause to curve.

14.  curve
to grade on a curve.

15.  curve
to pitch a curve to in baseball.

16. (adj.) curve
curved.

17.  curve
to take someone by surprise, esp. so as to cause chagrin.

Etymology: (1565–75; (< MF) < L curvus crooked, bent, curved)

Definition of 'Curve'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (noun) curve, curved shape
the trace of a point whose direction of motion changes

2. (noun) curve
a line on a graph representing data

3. (noun) curve, curve ball, breaking ball, bender
a pitch of a baseball that is thrown with spin so that its path curves as it approaches the batter

4. (noun) curvature, curve
the property possessed by the curving of a line or surface

5. (verb) bend, curve
curved segment (of a road or river or railroad track etc.)

6. (verb) swerve, sheer, curve, trend, veer, slue, slew, cut
turn sharply; change direction abruptly
"The car cut to the left at the intersection"; "The motorbike veered to the right"

7. (verb) wind, twist, curve
extend in curves and turns
"The road winds around the lake"; "the path twisted through the forest"

8. (verb) arch, curve, arc
form an arch or curve
"her back arches"; "her hips curve nicely"

9. (verb) crook, curve
bend or cause to bend
"He crooked his index finger"; "the road curved sharply"

10. (verb) curl, curve, kink
form a curl, curve, or kink
"the cigar smoke curled up at the ceiling"

Definition of 'Curve'

Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary

1. (noun) curve
a line that bends
the curve of her shoulders; a curve in the road; a curve on a graph

2. (verb) curve
(of line or path) to bend or move in a curve
a path curving around the mountain; curved lines

Definition of 'Curve'

Webster Dictionary

1. (adj) Curve
bent without angles; crooked; curved; as, a curve line; a curve surface

2. (adj) Curve
a bending without angles; that which is bent; a flexure; as, a curve in a railway or canal

3. (adj) Curve
a line described according to some low, and having no finite portion of it a straight line

4. (adj) Curve
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

5. (verb) Curve
to bend or turn gradually from a given direction; as, the road curves to the right

Translation of 'Curve'

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

Sense: a line which is not straight at any point, like part of the edge of a circle.
Afrikaans: boog, bolrand	Arabic: إنحِناء	Bulgarian: извивка
Brazilian: curva	Czech: křivka	German: die Kurve
Danish: bue; kurve	Greek: καμπύλη	Spanish: curva
Estonian: kõverjoon	Farsi: منحنی؛ نیم دایره	Finnish: kaari
French: courbe	Hebrew: עַקוּמָה	Hindi: वक्र रेखा
Croatian: zavoj	Hungarian: görbület; (matematikában	Indonesian: lengkung
Icelandic: bogi, boglína	Italian: curva	Japanese: 曲線
Korean: 곡선	Lithuanian: kreivė, lankas	Latvian: līka līnija; līkne
Malay: lengkung	Dutch: curve	Norwegian: bue, kurve
Polish: krzywa	Persian: منحنی؛ نیم دایره	Pashto: نیمه دایره، منحنی
Portuguese: curva	Romanian: curbă	Russian: кривая
Slovak: krivka	Slovenian: krivulja	Serbian: kriva linija
Swedish: kurva	Thai: เส้นโค้ง	Turkish: eğri
Taiwanese: 曲線	Ukrainian: крива	Urdu: خط منحنى
Vietnamese: đường cong	Chinese: 曲线
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