Curve

/kɜːv/

Synonyms for "curve" (323 found)

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Closest matches (65)

Noun(20 words)

bend arc arch arches arching arcing arcking arcsbend plasticbender bendingbending compressive forcebends bent bowsbreaking ballcamber cambering cambers chicane

aberrancy aberration arc archartful dodgeartificebag of tricksbear offbendbend backbent bias billowy blind bluff bosey bow bowl branchbranch off

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branching offcast catacaustic catch catenary causticchange of pacechange the bearingchange-up chicanery chouse chuck chunk circle circuit circuitousness

Verb(8 words)

arc arced arch arched archest arcked bended bowed

Adjective(1 words)

cambered

Strong matches (97)

circumference coil compass conchoid contort corner crook curl curvaceous curvation curvature curve-ball curved curvy declination decurve deflectdepart fromdeparture design

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Noun(19 words)

cornering crescent crooking crooks curling curls curvature curvaturescurve ballcurved shapecurves curving diagram epicycloid flex flexes flexure geodesic graph

Verb(4 words)

crook curl cut decurved

Adjective(3 words)

curved trimdomedgraded tests

Related words (161)

Noun(25 words)

growth over timehorseshoe humps inflecting keeling kuvi locus meander meandersmetal bendoxbows parabolas path plotroad bendspirals spline trajectories trajectory twisting

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vaults veering waviness winding winds

hairpin heave heelhocus pocushocus-pocus hook hump hunch hurl hyperbola incurvate incurvation incurvature incurve incurved indirection inflect inflection joker juggle

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knuckleball labyrinthine laterallateral passlean lituus lob loop mazy meandering obliquity outcurve parabola pass peg pererration pitch ploy pull put rambling recurve reflect reflex refract retroflex rondure round ruse sag scatter scheme screwballscurvy trickserpentine serve service sheer shift shiftingshifting courseshifting pathshot putshot-put shy sinker sinuous sinus skew slant sleightsleight of handsleight-of-hand trickslider sling snake spiral spitball spitter stratagem straying subterfuge swag sweep swerve swerving swinging swirl tack tendency throw tortuous toss tracery trend trick turnturn asideturning twist undulant upcurve upset variation vary vault veer wandering warp wavy wile wind yaw zigzag

Verb(19 words)

humped inflected inflects kink overarch recurvate sheer sinuate slew slue swerve swerved trend twined twist undulates veer veers wind

Determiner(1 words)

more turning points

Adjective(2 words)

nonlinear trendlinerounded

Related word relations

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6 relation types

More general

24 entries

alter pathbendchange shapechange surfaceconfiguration conformation contour deformation delivery extend flex formgeometric objectgo graph lead

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More specific

14 entries

arc arch bend circle elbow ellipseexponential curveflexuregrowth curvehyperbola kinklogistic curveparabolasigmoid curve

Collocations

12 entries

Gaussian curvearc lengthcurve aroundcurve datacurve downwardcurve fittingcurve pathcurve trajectorycurve upwardcurvilinear coordinatesgrowth curvelogistic curve

Inflections

3 entries

curved curves curving

Derivations

2 entries

curvature curvy

Antonyms

1 entries

straight line

Sample sentences

27 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

The boy knows how to throw a curve.

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The curve extends from point A to point B.

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At times I confuse curve with carve.

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At times I confuse "curve" with "carve".

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