Dictionary Entry
curve
curve is a 5-letter English word with 15 senses as adjective, intransitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Bent without angles; crooked; curved; as, a curve line; a curve surface. Face value is 10 in Scrabble and 13 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
5 letters · Scrabble 10 · Words With Friends 13 · 15 senses
Definitions
- 1adjective
Bent without angles; crooked; curved; as, a curve line; a curve surface.
- 2adjective
A bending without angles; that which is bent; a flexure; as, a curve in a railway or canal.
- 3adjective
A line described according to some low, and having no finite portion of it a straight line.
- 4adjective
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.
- 5intransitive verb
To bend or turn gradually from a given direction; as, the road curves to the right.
- 6noun
a pitch of a baseball that is thrown with spin so that its path curves as it approaches the batter
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- 7noun
curved segment (of a road or river or railroad track etc.)
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- 8noun
the property possessed by the curving of a line or surface
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- 9noun
a line on a graph representing data
- 10noun
the trace of a point whose direction of motion changes
- 11verb
form a curl, curve, or kink
"the cigar smoke curled up at the ceiling"
- 12verb
turn sharply; change direction abruptly
"The car cut to the left at the intersection"
"The motorbike veered to the right"
- 13verb
bend or cause to bend
"He crooked his index finger"
"the road curved sharply"
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- 14verb
form an arch or curve
"her back arches"
"her hips curve nicely"
- 15verb
extend in curves and turns
"The road winds around the lake"
"the path twisted through the forest"
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