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curving

/kurv/US // kɜrv //UK // (kɜːv) //

弯曲的,弯弯曲曲,弯曲,曲线

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a continuously bending line, without angles.
    • : the act or extent of curving.
    • : any curved outline, form, thing, or part.
    • : a curved section of a road, path, hallway, etc.
    • : 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 long .
    • : Baseball. curveball. the path followed by a ball pitched as a curveball: The curve on that ball was nasty!
    • : a graphic representation of the variations effected in something by the influence of changing conditions; graph.
    • : Mathematics. a collection of points whose coordinates are continuous functions of a single independent variable.
    • : a misleading or deceptive trick; cheat; deception.
    • : Education. a grading system based on the scale of performance, so that those performing better relative to others in the group, regardless of their actual knowledge of the subject, receive high grades: The new English professor grades on a curve.Compare absolute.
    • : a curved guide used in drafting.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1

    curved, curv·ing.

    • : to bend in a curve; cause to take the course of a curve.
    • : to grade on a curve.
v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1

    curved, curv·ing.

    • : to bend in a curve; take the course of a curve.
    • : Baseball. to pitch a curveball: After two forkballs, Stewart curved to Hernandez for a called strike.
adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : having the shape of a curve; curved.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Examples

  • The national curve of new cases is far from flat — mostly turning vertical, she noted — and the Washington region is “unfortunately catching up with other states.”

  • Eventually he and the mathematician Zsolt Lángi devised a new conjecture that sketched out the curve of all possible three-dimensional mosaics like this.

  • So in other words, you’re obviously doing a lot, you’re doing a lot more than you were and you, and you’re still, by that count way behind the curve.

  • Once you begin to carry a spear gun, an experienced dive partner and mentor will shorten the learning curve and help ensure a safe dive.

  • Albert Einstein’s general theory of relativity separately describes gravity as curves in the space-time fabric.

  • The Spanish countryside, full of stone ruins and curving green hills, is a perfect hiking spot.

  • Renowned author Dan Brown smiled, the ends of his mouth curving upwards in a physical expression of pleasure.

  • Sometimes they cut spiral strips from the curving horns of a mountain sheep, and steamed them straight.

  • She grew frightened at Tessas stillness; there was not one sympathetic line in the stern curving of her lips.

  • These were generally of simpler design, and adorned only with the series of doubly curving lines known as wave ornaments.

  • From the river, curving past the statue of an Indian administrator, came a string of country people with baskets on their heads.

  • Mr. Bradford called Roly's attention to the long stretch of treeless gravel curving to the west.

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