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curve

(kûrv)

a. A line that deviates from straightness in a smooth, continuous fashion.

b. A surface that deviates from planarity in a smooth, continuous fashion.

c. Something characterized by such a line or surface, especially a rounded line or contour of the human body.

2. A relatively smooth bend in a road or other course.

a. A line representing data on a graph.

b. A trend derived from or as if from such a graph: "Once again, the politicians are behind the curve" (Ted Kennedy).

4. A graphic representation showing the relative performance of individuals as measured against each other, used especially as a method of grading students in which the assignment of grades is based on predetermined proportions of students.

5. Mathematics

a. The graph of a function on a coordinate plane.

b. The intersection of two surfaces in three dimensions.

c. The graph of the solutions to any equation of two variables.

6. Baseball A curve ball.

7. Slang Something that is unexpected or designed to trick or deceive.

v. curved, curv·ing, curves

v.intr.

To move in or take the shape of a curve: The path curves around the lake.

v.tr.

1. To cause to curve.

2. Baseball To pitch (a ball) with a curve.

3. To grade (students, for example) on a curve.

[From Middle English, curved, from Latin curvus; see sker- in Indo-European roots. N., sense 6, short for curve ball.]

curv′ed·ness n.

curv′y adj.

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curved

(kɜːvd)

adj

having the shape of a curve

curvedly adv

ˈcurvedness n

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Adj.

curved - having or marked by a curve or smoothly rounded bend; "the curved tusks of a walrus"; "his curved lips suggested a smile but his eyes were hard"

curving

straight - free from curves or angles; "a straight line"

curved

adjective bent, rounded, sweeping, twisted, bowed, arched, arced, humped, serpentine, sinuous, twisty the curved lines of the chairs

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curved

adjective

1. Deviating from a straight line:

arced, arched, arciform, bent, bowed, curvilinear, rounded.

2. Having bends, curves, or angles:

bending, crooked, curving.

Translations

مُقَوَّس

zakřivenýzkroucený

buetkrumkurvet

gekrümmt

curvo encorvado

courbe courbé

bogadreginn, sveigîur

ukrivljen

curved

[kɜːvd] ADJ → curvo, encorvado

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curved

[ˈkɜː^rvd] adj [surface] → courbe; [edge] → arrondi(e); [blade] → incurvé(e)

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

curved

adj line → gebogen; table legs etc also → geschwungen; horizon → gekrümmt; surface, arch, sides of ship → gewölbt; hips → rund; space is curved → der Raum ist gekrümmt

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curved

[kɜːvd] adj → curvo/a

curve

(kəːv) noun

1. a line which is not straight at any point, like part of the edge of a circle.

2. anything shaped like this. a curve in the road.

verb

to bend in a curve. The road curves east.

curved adjective

a curved blade.

ˈcurvy adjective

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Her features were as firm in repose as those of a Greek bust, and her great dark eyes were arched over by two brows so black, so thick, and so delicately curved, that the eye turned away from the harsher details of the face to marvel at their grace and strength.

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Rolling pasture lands curved upward on either side of us, and old gabled houses peeped out from amid the thick green foliage, but behind the peaceful and sunlit countryside there rose ever, dark against the evening sky, the long, gloomy curve of the moor, broken by the jagged and sinister hills.

The wagonette swung round into a side road, and we curved upward through deep lanes worn by centuries of wheels, high banks on either side, heavy with dripping moss and fleshy hart's-tongue ferns.

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The Neckar is in many places so narrow that a person can throw a dog across it, if he has one; when it is also sharply curved in such places, the raftsman has to do some pretty nice snug piloting to make the turns.

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Over the gently rising plain curved the white road which leads inland, usually flecked with travellers, but now with scarce a living form upon it, so completely had the lists drained all the district of its inhabitants.

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Wouldn't you like if your tails were--so-- Curved in the shape of a Cupid's bow?

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There she hangs up her curved bow and her arrows, and heads and leads the dances, gracefully arrayed, while all they utter their heavenly voice, singing how neat-ankled Leto bare children supreme among the immortals both in thought and in deed.

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On more accounts than one, a pity it is that the whale does not possess this prehensile virtue in his tail; for I have heard of yet another elephant, that when wounded in the fight, curved round his trunk and extracted the dart.

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When there was room on the ledge outside of the pots and boxes for a cat, the cat was there-- in sunny weather--stretched at full length, asleep and blissful, with her furry belly to the sun and a paw curved over her nose.

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And in the westward sky, I saw a curved pale line like a vast new moon.

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The latter dodged the first charge, drew a wicked-looking curved blade from beneath its red robe, spread its wings and dived for its antagonist.

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Her eyes and hair were hazel-nut color; and her teeth, the upper row of which she displayed freely, were like fine Portland stone, and sloped outward enough to have spoilt her mouth, had they not been supported by a rich under lip, and a finely curved, impudent chin.