Thesaurus: curve

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1. a. Bent without angles; crooked; curved; as, a curve line; a curve surface.
2. a. A bending without angles; that which is bent; a flexure; as, a curve in a railway or canal.
3. a. A line described according to some low, and having no finite portion of it a straight line.
4. a. 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.
5. v. i. To bend or turn gradually from a given direction; as, the road curves to the right.
6. n. the trace of a point whose direction of motion changes
7. n. a line on a graph representing data
8. n. a pitch of a baseball that is thrown with spin so that its path curves as it approaches the batter
9. n. the property possessed by the curving of a line or surface
10. n. curved segment (of a road or river or railroad track etc.)
11. v. turn sharply; change direction abruptly
12. v. extend in curves and turns