OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 3182

curve

/kɜːv/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
curva
A gentle bend, such as in a road.
But when we reflect that across the road at the centre of the arc of each curve there was a barricade, and cannon placed to rake the' intervals between the different barricades, th…
You should slow down when approaching a curve.
curva
A simple figure containing no straight portions and no angles; a curved line.
However, it should be possible to give more sophisticated spherical spline curves based on the de Castaljau method that are computed using multiple slerps between pairs of points a…
She scribbled a curve on the paper.
curva
A one-dimensional figure of non-zero length; the graph of a continuous map from a one-dimensional space.
curvas
The attractive shape of a woman's body.
Word forms
📚 verb • entry_id 3183

curve

/kɜːv/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
abarquillar • corvar • curvar • curvear • encorvar
To bend; to crook.
to curve a line
to curve a pipe
curvear
To bend or turn gradually from a given direction.
[…] the shoulders not too wide above, bowing outward from the top to the breast; the back flat from shoulder to tail; the ribs extending horizontally and backwards, and then curvin…
the road curves to the right