Curve

a.	1.	Bent without angles; crooked; curved; as, a curve line; a curve surface.
n.	1.	A bending without angles; that which is bent; a flexure; as, a curve in a railway or canal.
	2.	(Geom.) 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 peculiarities 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.
v. t.	1.	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. [imp. & p. p. Curved (kûrvd); p. pr. & vb. n. Curving.]
v. i.	1.	To bend or turn gradually from a given direction; as, the road curves to the right.

Noun	1.	curve - the trace of a point whose direction of motion changes Synonyms: curved shape Antonyms: straight line - a line traced by a point traveling in a constant direction; a line of zero curvature; "the shortest distance between two points is a straight line"
	2.	curve - a line on a graph representing data
	3.	curve - a baseball thrown with spin so that its path curves as it approach the batter Synonyms: breaking ball, curve ball, bender
	4.	curve - the property possessed by the curving of a line or surface Synonyms: curvature
	5.	curve - curved segment (of a road or river or railroad track etc.) Synonyms: bend
Verb	1.	curve - turn sharply; change direction abruptly; "The car cut to the left at the intersection"; "The motorbike veered to the right" Synonyms: sheer, slew, slue, swerve, trend, veer, cut
	2.	curve - extend in curves and turns; "The road winds around the lake" Synonyms: wind
	3.	curve - form an arch or curve; "her back arches"; "her hips curve nicely" Synonyms: arc, arch
	4.	curve - bend or cause to bend; "He crooked his index finger"; "the road curved sharply" Synonyms: crook
	5.	curve - form a curl, curve, or kink; "the cigar smoke curled up at the ceiling" Synonyms: curl, kink

aberrancy, aberration, arc, arch, artful dodge, artifice, bag of tricks, bear off, bend back, bias, blind, bluff, bosey, bow, bowl, branch off, branching off, cast, catacaustic, catch, catenary, caustic, change of pace, change the bearing, change-up, chicanery, chouse, chuck, chunk, circle, circuit, circuitousness, circumference, coil, compass, conchoid, corner, curl, curvation, curvature, curve-ball, declination, decurve, depart from, departure, design, detour, deviance, deviancy, deviate, deviation, device, deviousness, diacaustic, diffract, diffuse, digress, digression, dirty deal, dirty trick, discursion, disperse, distort, divagate, divagation, divaricate, divarication, diverge, divergence, diversion, divert, dodge, dogleg, dome, double, downcurve, drift, drifting, ellipse, embow, errantry, excursion, excursus, exorbitation, fast deal, fastball, feint, festoon, fetch, ficelle, flex, fling, flip, forward pass, gambit, gimmick, googly, hairpin, heave, heel, hocus-pocus, hook, hump, hunch, hurl, hyperbola, incurvate, incurvation, incurvature, incurve, indirection, inflect, inflection, joker, juggle, knuckleball, lateral, lateral pass, lituus, lob, loop, obliquity, outcurve, parabola, pass, peg, pererration, pitch, ploy, pull, put, rambling, recurve, reflect, reflex, refract, retroflex, rondure, round, ruse, sag, scatter, scheme, screwball, scurvy trick, serve, service, sheer, shift, shifting, shifting course, shifting path, shot-put, shy, sinker, sinus, skew, slant, sleight, sleight of hand, sleight-of-hand trick, slider, sling, spiral, spitball, spitter, stratagem, straying, subterfuge, swag, sweep, swerve, swerving, swinging, tack, throw, toss, tracery, trend, trick, turn aside, turning, twist, upcurve, variation, vary, vault, veer, wandering, warp, wile, wind, yaw, zigzag

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