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curve English

Meaning curve meaning

What does curve mean?
Definitions in simple English

curve Noun

— A curve is a line that is not straight. It is like part of a circle. It starts in one direction and turns. The edge of the flower petal is a beautiful curve.

curve Verb

— To move in a curve. The car curved around the corner. This piece of wood is not good. It is curved.

curve

— noun the trace of a point whose direction of motion changes — noun a line on a graph representing data — verb (= veer, cut) turn sharply; change direction abruptly The car cut to the left at the intersection The motorbike veered to the right — noun a pitch of a baseball that is thrown with spin so that its path curves as it approaches the batter — verb (= arch) form an arch or curve her back arches her hips curve nicely — verb (= wind, twist) extend in curves and turns The road winds around the lake the path twisted through the forest — verb (= crook) bend or cause to bend He crooked his index finger the road curved sharply — noun curved segment (of a road or river or railroad track etc.) — noun the property possessed by the curving of a line or surface — verb (= curl, kink) form a curl, curve, or kink the cigar smoke curled up at the ceiling

Synonyms curve synonyms

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curve English » English

bend crook turn twist arch arc warp wind curvature curl bow crookedness winding corner curved fold meander curved line turning make crooked kink hunch huddle flex contort circle bend down be curved wriggle veer trend swerve stoop spin slue slew sheer sag loop inflect incurve hump graph gibbousness flexure elbow double cut curved shape curve ball

Topics curve topics

What do people use curve to talk about?
States Quality Shape

Bend
Physical actions Move Move in a direction

Move in a circle

Conjugation curve conjugation

How do you conjugate curve?

curve · verb

Examples curve examples

How do I use curve in a sentence?

Simple sentences

A straight line is a trivial example of a curve.
The highway went on in a large curve.
That's a dangerous curve. There've been many accidents there.
One of Einstein's ideas is that objects cause the space around them to curve. He thought that large objects, like the Sun, curve the space around them more than small objects do. Objects moving through space follow the curvature.
A smile is the most beautiful curve on a woman's body.

Movie subtitles

And when she smiles there's a funny little curve to her mouth?
There's a bad curve sitting out front.
No, Joe. Of course, I hate to see you go back to the road but if that's the way you want it I'm with you around every curve.
Your Schneiders have been following this curve.
I didn't want it known that he's been on the pilot fatigue curve lately.
Aw, sling him your curve.
Maybe he didn't know the way well and missed the curve.
Take a look. I had some fun plotting its temperature curve.
She pitched a curve.
It's just a curve.
If you hold the ship to this curve, we can meet her orbit and run parallel.
Watch the curve!
A study of 18,000 marriages conducted by myself leads us to believe that the 'urge curve' in the husband rises sharply during the seventh year.
A curve leads him to the right, A spot pushes him to the left.
Once more around that curve, I won't have a hat left.
Slack up at this next curve. Stop her just this side of that clump of trees around the bend.
The hammer of the gun hit a curve in the drainpipe, and the gun went off.
The train is rounding a curve.
That's a bad curve that girl's making you-- - Cut it out, Chickamaw.
Western Express jumped the track on a curve.
A little more curve.
They curve like a Balinese dancer's.
Sucker for an inside curve.
No straight line, no curve, nothing.
All of the projecting part of the hook.. the curve and the point, was covered with sardines.. each sardine hooked through both eyes so they made a garland of the projecting steel.
Mars's journey around the sun is an elliptical curve.
I can't stop on a curve.
Took that turn curve kind of fast, huh?
He's following a curve on the right, a spot on the left.
The light that slowly appears is paradoxically created by the painter, who draws one black curve after another.
The problem is guessing the size of the egg based on the inner curve of this section.
It looks like the Great Ichiyama is going to throw his famous Nipponese sideways curve ball.
Now and then Mother Nature throws somebody a dirty curve.
Every line. every curve.
A curve!

News and current affairs

With inflation - both headline and core - now on an accelerating path, Asian central banks can't afford to slip further behind the curve.
Moreover, these bonds are priced as spreads on the government-bond yield curve, implying that QE will have an immediate impact on enterprises' financing costs.
Pessimistic Europeans are behind the curve.
And we are far behind the curve: Because we have been so slow to respond to climate change, achieving the targeted limit of a two-degree (centigrade) rise in global temperature, will require sharp reductions in emissions in the future.
For starters, the same forces that led to an upward shift in the global savings curve will soon enough begin operating in the other direction.
Demand for consumer products typically follows an S-curve.
This strategy needs to be inverted - and Greece offers a real opportunity to get ahead of the curve.
Getting ahead of the curve will give Greece a realistic chance of controlling its own destiny.
But such a policy diminishes, and may even eliminate, financiers' ability to take the easy route by riding the duration yield curve for profits.
After all, the potential effect of interest-rate hikes on the US yield curve has a major impact on the pricing of all global assets.
But three factors suggest that investors are over-emphasizing the risk of a curve re-pricing.
Under its capable managing director, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the Fund has been one of the few official agencies ahead of - instead of behind - the curve.
Yet unless the rising curve of annual emissions can be reversed, the CO2 concentration will irrevocably reach a truly threatening level.
With policy rates at or close to double-digit levels in many of those economies, the authorities are not behind the curve the way they were in 2013.
So far, the US response appears to be more aggressive than that of the euro zone, as the European Central Bank falls behind the curve on interest rates and the EU's fiscal stance remains weak.
In economic jargon, the supply curve of labor was flat but is now sloping upward, so that rapidly increasing demand for labor resulting from rapid growth is driving up wages.
Data presented by Roger Pielke in the Natural Hazards Review in February shows that actual insured losses caused by the most important hurricanes since 1900 followed a U-shaped curve.
As soon as economic activity in the United States revives, interest rates on government bonds are liable to shoot up; indeed, the yield curve is likely to steepen in anticipation.
This is more appropriate to the task of reducing carbon emissions than a single price, because there is a multiplicity of sectors and methods, each of which produces a different cost curve.
Of course, governments cannot always be ahead of the curve.

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