CURVE
\kˈɜːv], \kˈɜːv], \k_ˈɜː_v]\
Definitions of CURVE
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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a baseball thrown with spin so that its path curves as it approach the batter
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a line on a graph representing data
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bend or cause to bend; "He crooked his index finger"; "the road curved sharply"
By Princeton University
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a baseball thrown with spin so that its path curves as it approach the batter
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a line on a graph representing data
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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Crooked; bent.
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A small tube, usually curved, applied to a trumpet, horn, etc., to change its pitch or key.
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Bent without angles; crooked; curved; as, a curve line; a curve surface.
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A bending without angles; that which is bent; a flexure; as, a curve in a railway or canal.
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A line described according to some low, and having no finite portion of it a straight line.
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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.
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To bend or turn gradually from a given direction; as, the road curves to the right.
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To bend.
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To cause to bend.
By Oddity Software
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
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A bend; in graphic delineations, the general course of a line formed by a number of straight lines extending between adjacent registry points.
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
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