Curving

verb

Word Frequency: 1.3

Definitions

1.verbTo bend; to crook.

"to curve a line"

2.verbTo cause to swerve from a straight course.

"to curve a ball in pitching it"

3.verbTo bend or turn gradually from a given direction.

"the road curves to the right"

4.verbTo grade on a curve (bell curve of a normal distribution).

"The teacher will curve the test."

5.verbTo reject, to turn down romantic advances.

"I was once curved three times by the same woman."

6.nounA shape or motion that curves.

"the curvings of a mountain road"

7.adjectiveThat curves or curve.

"a curving path"

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