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verb

Curve v. t. (past & past part. curved; pres. part. curving) 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.

Curve v. i. To bend or turn gradually from a given direction; as, the road curves to the right.

adjective

curved adj.

Not straight; having or marked by curves. Opposite of straight. Note: (Narrower terms: arced, arched, arching, arciform, arcuate, bowed; falcate, sickle-shaped; flexuous; incurvate, incurved: recurved, recurvate; semicircular: serpentine, snaky: sinuate, sinuous, wavy: sinusoidal)

Synonyms: curving.

(Botany) Curved with the micropyle near the base almost touching its stalk; of a plant ovule. Opposite of orthotropous.

Synonyms: campylotropous.

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Etymology of 'Curved'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Curved" Quotes from Famous Books

... dough set by the fire to rise? If you have, and if you were at that time still young enough to be interested in everything you saw, you will remember that you found yourself quite unable to resist the temptation to poke your finger into the soft round of dough that curved inside the pan like a giant mushroom. And you will remember that your finger made a dent in the dough, and that slowly, but quite surely, the dent disappeared, and the dough looked quite the same as it did before you touched it. Unless, ...

— The Railway Children • E. Nesbit

... a curved scalpel lay there in plain view. Ordinarily it would have been locked up safely, but Doctor Hugh, hurriedly selecting his choice of instruments that morning, had not bothered to replace it in the rack. Shirley went over to the desk, picked up the shining silver thing and carefully ...

— Rosemary • Josephine Lawrence

... Instead of tossing the ball with their toes, they use a large wooden fork, with two or three prongs, to pitch it forward. Sometimes they have a ring of twisted strips of yucca leaves instead of the ball, but more often two interlocked rings which they throw ahead with a stick curved at the end. This game, which is called rowe-mala (rowe signifies a ring), must be very ancient, for rings of this kind have sometimes been found in ancient cliff-dwellings. It is certainly a strange sight to see these sturdy amazons race heavily ...

— Unknown Mexico, Volume 1 (of 2) • Carl Lumholtz

... curved marking which on Plate XVIII. appears in longitude 290 deg. and north of (that is, below) the equator. Here, as in all astronomical drawings, north is at the foot and south at the top. See above, p. 82 ...

— The Story of the Heavens • Robert Stawell Ball

... water jar of graceful shape on her head, and one of her naked arms curves up and the hand holds it there. She is so straight, so erect, and she steps with such style, and such easy grace and dignity; and her curved arm and her brazen jar are such a help to the picture indeed, our working-women cannot begin with her ...

— Innocents abroad • Mark Twain

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