Definitions for curves

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Spelling: [kurv]

IPA: /kɜrv/

Curves is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 95 anagrams from letters in curves (cersuv).

Definitions for curves

noun

1. a continuously bending line, without angles.
2. the act or extent of curving.
3. any curved outline, form, thing, or part.
4. a curved section of a road, path, hallway, etc.
5. Railroads. a curved section of track: in the U.S. the curve is often expressed as the central angle, measured in degrees, of a curved section of track subtended by a chord 100 feet (30 meters) long (degree of curve)
6. Also called curve ball, curveball. Baseball. a 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. the course of such a pitched ball.
7. a graphic representation of the variations effected in something by the influence of changing conditions; graph.
8. Mathematics. a collection of points whose coordinates are continuous functions of a single independent variable.
9. a misleading or deceptive trick; cheat; deception.
10. Education. a grading system based on the scale of performance of a group, so that those performing better, regardless of their actual knowledge of the subject, receive high grades: Compare absolute (def 10).
11. a curved guide used in drafting.

Idioms

1. ahead of / behind the curve, at the forefront of (or lagging behind) recent developments, trends, etc.
2. throw (someone) a curve, to take (someone) by surprise, especially in a negative way. to mislead or deceive.

adjective

1. having the shape of a curve; curved.

verb (used with object)

1. to bend in a curve; cause to take the course of a curve.
2. to grade on a curve.
3. Baseball. to pitch a curve to.

verb (used without object)

1. to bend in a curve; take the course of a curve.

Origin of curves

1565-75; (Middle French) Latin curvus crooked, bent, curved

Examples for curves

After acknowledging that there has been a “bend in the curve” and a reason to hope, he warned against inaction.

I will uphold the curve of her eyelashes, for it tickleth my very heart-root to think of her.

Just what the ratio of the curve should be is a matter of contention.

This is shown by the curve, O P Q, shown in a thick full line.

“This is the key way to bend the curve,” Powell told The Daily Beast of the mission abroad in a September interview.

You were really ahead of the curve there on Archer with the Jakov plotline.

They had been arranged somewhat according to size, with the curve outward.

“He also said, ‘We might be too ahead of the curve,’” Kudrow remembers.

No one has gone back yet to look, but the key thing is getting this isolation and then being able to bend the curve.

The river curved again and just beyond the curve it seemed shallow to him.