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Definition: Curve |
CurveNoun1. The trace of a point whose direction of motion changes. 2. A line on a graph representing data. 3. A baseball thrown with spin so that its path curves as it approach the batter. 4. The property possessed by the curving of a line or surface. 5. Curved segment (of a road or river or railroad track etc.). Verb1. Turn sharply; change direction abruptly; "The car cut to the left at the intersection"; "The motorbike veered to the right". 2. Extend in curves and turns; "The road winds around the lake". 3. Form an arch. 4. Bend or cause to bend. 5. Form a curl, curve, or kink; "the cigar smoke curled up at the ceiling"; "The road curved". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "curve" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references) |
Note: Curve \Curve\, noun. [See Curve, a., Cirb.]. (references) |
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Electrical Engineering | The representation of frequency over a given range, in relation to a fixed standard of amplitude. Source: European Union. (references) |
Mathematics | A curved line representing graphically a variable element as affected by one or more conditions. Source: European Union. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
A curve is a geometric object that is one-dimensional and continuous.
Definitions
In mathematics, a (topological) curve is defined as follows. Let I be an interval of real numbers (i.e. a non-empty connected subset of R). Then a curve c is a continuous mapping c : I --> X, where X is a topological space. The curve c is said to be simple if it is injective, i.e. if for all x,y in I, we have c(x) = c(y) => x= y. If I is a closed bounded interval [a,b], we also allow the possibility c(a) = c(b). A curve c is said to be closed if I = [a,b] and if c(a) = c(b). A closed curve is thus a continuous mapping of the unit circle S1. A simple closed curve is also called a Jordan curve.
This definition of curve captures our intuitive notion of a curve as a connected, continuous geometric figure that is "like" a line, although it also includes figures that are not called curves in common usage.
Conventions and Terminology
The distinction between a curve and its image is important. Two distinct curves may have the same image. For example, a line segment can be traced out at different speeds, or a circle can be traversed a different number of times. Many times, however, we are just interested in the image of the curve. It is important to pay attention to context and convention in reading.
Terminology is also not uniform. Often, topologists use the term "path" for what we are calling a curve, and "curve" for what we are calling the image of a curve. The term "curve" is more common in vector calculus and differential geometry.
Simple Curves
It can be shown that a topological space X is the image of a simple curve if and only if X is a connected T1 space with at least two elements, satisfying the following property:
A simple curve is open (i.e. is the image of an open interval) if and only if such a closed subset T exists in X.
- If T is a subset of X which is closed and whose boundary consists of three distinct elements such that the boundary of the interior of T consists of these three elements as well, then T is the union of two disjoint non-empty closed subsets of X.
Rectifiable Curves
If X is a metric space with metric d, then we can define the length of a curve c in X.
A rectifiable curve is a curve with finite length. Every piecewise continuously differentiable curve is rectifiable and its length is given as the integral of its speed.
Differential Geometry
If X is a differentiable manifold, then we can define the notion of differentiable curve. If X is a Ck manifold (i.e. a manifold whose charts are k times continuously differentiable), then a Ck differentiable curve in X is a curve c : I --> X which is Ck (i.e. k times continuously differentiable). If X is a smooth manifold (i.e k = ∞, charts are infinitely differentiable), and c is a smooth map, then c is called a smooth curve. If X is an analytic manifold (i.e. k = ω, charts are expressible as power series), and c is an analytic map, then c is called an analytic curve.
A differentiable curve is said to be regular if its derivative never vanishes. (In words, a regular curve never slows to a stop or backtracks on itself.) Two Ck differentiable curves c : I --> X and d : J --> X are said to be equivalent if there is a bijective Ck map p : J --> I such that the inverse map p-1 : I --> J is also Ck and d(t) = c(p(t)) for all t. The map d is called a reparametrisation of c, and this makes an equivalence relation on the set of all Ck differentiable curves in X. A Ck arc is an equivalence class of Ck curves under the relation of reparametrisation.
Other Curves
A fractal curve is a topological curve with fractional dimension. Since there are different definitions of fractal dimension, there are different definitions of fractal curve. Popular examples of fractal curves include the Koch snowflake and the Dragon curve.
Curves are also defined in the setting of algebraic geometry and the theory of elliptic curves. This notion of curve is algebraic and not the same as the concept given above.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Curve."
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
In Physics, a curve is a set of elements which are ordered (thus one-dimensional, and not self-intersecting); and with distance values measured pairwise between its elements allowing the identification of certain subsets as topological neighborhood, and of the whole curve as a connected topological space.The elements of a curve may be ordered
Accordingly, for any two distinct elements of a curve, one can distintinguish the remaining elements into those between, and those not between the given two; and one distinguishes
- either by the distance values as well; provided that for every element P there are two elements, A and Z, with d( Z, A ) > d( Z, P ) ≥ d( P, A ), such that for any two elements J and K with d( Z, A ) > d( Z, J ) ≥ d( J, A ) and d( Z, A ) > d( Z, K ) ≥ d( K, A ) holds: if d( K, A ) > d( J, A ) then d( Z, J ) > d( Z, K )
- or in reference to measures other than distance values; for instance in case of a trajectory: the duration measured pairwise between its elements
- or directly in reference to the observational contents of the elements; e.g. for a worldline.
The connectedness of the curve is then established if for any two elements A and Q and for each element B between A and Q there exists an element N between B and Q (where A does not belong to the set between B and Q which also contains N) such that for each element P between N and Q (where B does not belong to the set between N and Q which also contains P) holds that d( P, Q ) < d( B, N ) < d( B, Q ).
- closed curves, for which each element is between any other two. (Also: for any three elements, A, P, and Z, every fourth element Q either belongs to the set of elements between A and Z which contains P as well; or else Q belongs to the set of elements between A and Z which does not contain P.); and
- open curves, each element of which is not between at least one particular pair of elements. In particular:
- open curves with two ends which have precisely two elements (its two ends, separately) not between any pair of elements,
- infinite open curves with one end, which have precisely one element (its one end) not between any pair of elements, or
- unbounded infinite open curves, each element of which is between certain pairs of elements (and not between certain other pairs of elements).
In topology applicable to physics, a (simple) curve C is correspondigly either of the following topological spaces with at most two boundary elements (ends):
- a simple closed curve, i.e. without ends: if for any three elements of C there are at least two distinct closed sets which have exactly these three elements as boundary; and for any two such closed sets, their complements relative to C are not disjoint; or
- a simple open curve, with two ends: if C is a closed subset, with nonempty interior, of a simple closed curve; or
- a simple open curve, with one end: i.e. obtained by removing one of the ends from a simple closed curve with two ends; or
- a simple open curve, without ends: i.e. obtained by removing both ends from a simple closed curve with two ends.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Curve (physics)."
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
| S-d curve | English | Strength-duration curve | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonyms: CurveSynonyms: bend (n), bender (n), breaking ball (n), curvature (n), curve ball (n), curved shape (n), arc (v), arch (v), crook (v), curl (v), cut (v), kink (v), sheer (v), slew (v), slue (v), swerve (v), trend (v), veer (v), wind (v). (additional references) |
| Antonym: straight line (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Concavity | Valley, vale, dale, dell, dingle, combe, bottom, slade, strath, glade, grove, glen, cave, cavern, cove; grot, grotto; alcove, cul-de-sac; gully; arch; (curve); bay; (of the sea). |
Curvature | Verb: be curved; Adjective: curve, sweep, sway, swag, sag; deviate; curl, turn; reenter. |
Sine curve; spline, spline curve, spline function; obliquity. | |
Render curved; Adjective: flex, bend, curve, incurvate; inflect; deflect, scatter; refract (light); crook; turn, round, arch, arcuate, arch over, concamerate; bow, curl, recurve, frizzle. | |
Deviation | Verb: alter one's course, deviate, depart from, turn, trend; bend, curve; swerve, heel, bear off; gybe, wear. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
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Screenplays | I memorised every line, every curve. I came across time for you Sarah, I love you, I always have (The Terminator; writing credit: James Cameron and Gale Anne Hurd, Harlan Ellison) Forget about the curve ball Ricky, give him the heater (Major League; writing credit: David S. Ward) Yeah, but it didn't curve. (61*; writing credit: Hank Steinberg) | |
Lyrics | Swervin all on the curve with a virgin (Take it to Da House; performing artist: Trick Daddy) | |
Clever | God grades on the cross, not the curve. (references; author: unknown) A smile is a curve that sets things straight. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Dead Man's Curve (1928) Dangerous Curve Ahead (1921) Around Tynsborough Curve (1899) Eden's Curve (2002) The Learning Curve (2001) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Epidemic curve for 54 symptomatic cases of acute pulmonary histoplasmosis in members of a wagon train. Bar graph. Am J Med 71:759. Credit: CDC. |  | "Bell Curve" (movie) by Jerry Thornhill. Use the up arrow key to see inside. |
 | Lackluster comet LINEAR (C/1999 S4) unexpectedly threw astronomers a curve. Using the Hubble ... Credit: NASA. |  | Engraved plan of the ship's hull lines, midships section and curve of displacement, published in the book: "The Stevens Ironclad Battery", in 1874. It represents the ship's ultimate planned configuration, with a monitor-type armored extension around the hull at the waterline. The original volume is held by the Navy Department Library. Credit: NAVY. |
 | Pennsylvania Railroad. Horse shoe curve, Allegheny Mountains. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Train rounding a curve. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Curve to be straightened, near Oak Grove, Mo. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Williams, Arizona. A fireman watching a diesel freight train as it goes around a curve in the mountains on the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railroad between Winslow and Seligman, Arizona. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Fargo, Oklahoma. Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe train rounding a curve. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Santa Fe R.R. freight train rounding a curve between Ash Fork and Gleed, Arizona. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Blue Curve" by Jaime Krayger Commentary: "Dale Chihuly show at Grounds for Sculpture, Hamilton, NJ USA." | "Highway Curve" by Luis Alves Commentary: "Highway curve. Taken while driving (don't try this at home). :-) --------------------------- Notice: You can use this image, but please send me an e-mail if you use it, I really like to know when and where it's used, thanks :-)." |
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Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | The corners of her mouth had that curve of habitual anguish, which is seen in the condemned and in the hopelessly sick |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Curve the floss around each tooth and gently scrape from below the gum to the top of the tooth several times. (references) | |
These may include tests to measure the curve of the cornea and the size and shape of the eye. For patients who will receive an IOL, this information helps your doctor choose the right type of IOL. Also, doctors may ask you not to eat or drink anything after midnight the morning of your surgery. (references) | ||
Economic History | Ecuador | Cosmetics have an elastic demand curve, which makes consumers very price sensitive. (references) |
Jordan | The Ministry of Finance will be issuing bonds of differing maturities in 2002, lengthening the yield curve. (references) | |
Jordan | These quotes provide the basis for the benchmark yield curve published daily on the Central Bank reuters pages and in the local Arabic Newspapers. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Suzanne Somers | I went into therapy. I think you've got to look at your life, and you've got to say this is the curve I've been dealt. So, therefore, keep what you like about yourself and fix what is broken. |
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| "Curve" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 94.19% of the time. "Curve" is used about 2,114 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 94.19% | 1,991 | 4,316 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 3.36% | 71 | 39,674 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 1.84% | 39 | 55,036 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.61% | 13 | 97,576 |
| Total | 100.00% | 2,114 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "curve": abnormal curve ♦ Algebraic curve ♦ altitude curve ♦ Area Under Curve ♦ ascending curve ♦ Axis of a curve ♦ Bézier curve ♦ basic curve ♦ bathtub curve ♦ bell curve ♦ bezier curve ♦ blind curve ♦ break away curve ♦ Caustic curve ♦ cavitation curve ♦ Center of a curve ♦ Center of curvature of a curve ♦ characteristic curve ♦ Class of a curve ♦ cumulative frequency curve ♦ curve ball ♦ curve modeling ♦ curve modelling ♦ curve of pursuit ♦ Curve of quickest descent ♦ curve of righting arms ♦ curve of sines ♦ curve of statical stability ♦ curve or surface ♦ curve out ♦ curve piece ♦ curve skewed to the left ♦ curve skewed to the right ♦ curve smoothing ♦ curve template ♦ Curve tracing ♦ Deficiency of a curve ♦ Degree of a curve ♦ demand curve ♦ depth curve ♦ descending curve ♦ Diametral curve ♦ Dioptric curve ♦ disruption of flow curve ♦ double Pareto curve ♦ Elastic curve ♦ Environmental Kuznet's Curve ♦ Equation of a curve ♦ Expansion curve ♦ Exponential curve ♦ Foliate curve ♦ formed datum curve ♦ Funicular curve ♦ gaussian curve ♦ Geodetic curve ♦ Geometrical curve ♦ GZ curve ♦ hairpin curve ♦ hairpin curve bend ♦ indexed curve ♦ inside curve ♦ Intrinsic equation of a curve ♦ Isolated point of a curve ♦ J shaped curve ♦ Laffer curve ♦ learning curve ♦ lift curve slope ♦ Logarithmic curve ♦ Lorenz curve ♦ Loxodromic curve ♦ make a curve in the side of ♦ moderately asymmetrical frequency curve ♦ Moore's Curve ♦ muscle curve ♦ nagative skewness curve ♦ neutral curve ♦ normal curve ♦ organic description of a curve ♦ osculating circle of a curve ♦ Paracentric curve ♦ parametric curve ♦ Pareto curve ♦ Pearson curve ♦ pedal curve ♦ Philipps curve ♦ plane curve ♦ positive skewness curve ♦ power curve ♦ Production possibility curve ♦ radioactive decay curve ♦ recurring curve ♦ regression curve ♦ reverse curve ♦ right angled curve grid ♦ righting lever curve ♦ ROC Curve ♦ set out a curve ♦ sigmoid curve ♦ sine curve ♦ singular point in a curve ♦ sketched datum curve. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "curve": curve-edged, curve-fit, curve-fitting, curve-shaped, curve-veined. | |
Ending with "curve": experience-curve, test-curve, v-curve. | |
Containing "curve": s-curve distortion. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
curve | 8,016 | curve workout | 123 |
curve for woman | 3,823 | curve fitness for woman | 123 |
curve gym | 434 | yield curve | 113 |
curve international | 408 | curve diet | 105 |
curve fitness | 406 | curve for woman fitness center | 102 |
curve fitness center | 405 | natural curve | 100 |
amateur curve | 330 | curve weight loss | 95 |
altoona curve | 275 | dangerous curve | 95 |
curve exercise | 253 | club curve | 82 |
real woman have curve | 237 | curve exercise woman | 78 |
the bell curve | 222 | american curve magazine | 71 |
learning curve | 191 | curve for woman gym | 70 |
corina curve | 189 | curve health club | 62 |
curve chrome | 188 | curve perfume | 61 |
curve magazine | 180 | curve for women.com | 61 |
ball curve throw | 163 | curve exercise program | 59 |
curve ball | 162 | horseshoe curve | 54 |
curve franchise | 149 | franchise curve for woman | 53 |
american curve | 149 | normal curve | 51 |
curve woman | 127 | curve cologne | 50 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "curve"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | vijë e lakuar, përkul (bend, crook, decline, double, flex, hunch, incline, inflect, overarch, warp, weigh down), marr kthesë (corner, turn), lakore (curved line), lakoj (bend, crook, decline, inflect), kurbë, kthesë (bend, bow, circumvolution, crook, elbow, flexure, jar, offset, oxbow, sinuosity, slew, switch, turn, turn round, turnabout, twist, volte-face, wheel, wheeling, wind), grafik (bend, chart, curvature, diagram, graph, graphic, graphical). (various references) | |
Arabic | منحنى (bent, bowed), منعطف في الطريق, منعطف (bend, bight, kink, serpentine, turn, turning, twist), تقوس (arch, bend, bow, hog, sweep), إنحنى (bend, bend over, bent, bow, crouch, dip, double up, droop, duck, hunch, incline, low bow, recline, sag, stoop, tip), إنسجام (accord, accordance, agreement, concert, concord, concordance, conformity, congruence, consonance, correspondence, exaltation, harmony, smoothness, sympathy, symphony, unison, unity). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | кривка, крива (graph, sweep), график (graph, plot), отбелязвам на диаграма, огъвам (bend, flex, strain), образувам дъга, завой (bend, crook, elbow, flexure, hook, return, sinuosity, sweep, tortuousity, turn, turning, wind, winding), изкривяване (collapse, contortion, curvature, deformation, sag, twist), изкривявам се (sag), изкривявам (contort, distort, skew, tilt, twist), извит (arched, bended, cranked, crooked, curly, curved, falcate, falciform, flexous, hooked, incurved, kinky, meandering, round, tortile, tortuous, twisted), извивка (bend, convolution, crook, flection, flexion, fold, incurvation, indentation, kink, return, sinuosity, sweep, tortuousity, twine, twist, wave, wind, winding), извивам (bend, convolve, curl, elbow, incurve, pull round, recurve, screw, turn, twine, twist, wreathe, wring, writhe), дъга (arc, bow, catenary, clapboard, quadrant, rainbow, stave, tug), диаграма (chart, diagram, graph, pattern, plan, plot, schema, scheme, sheet, tabulation). (various references) | |
Chinese | 曲线 (curves, Curvilineal, Curvilinear), 彎曲 (bend, bent, warp, wind). (various references) | |
Czech | zatáèka (bend, corner, roundabout, turn, turning), zakřivit, tvořit oblouk, toèit se (go round, revolve, rotate, swim, swirl, turn, twirl, twist, veer, whiffle), ohyb (bend, bent, crook, elbow, flex, offset, turn), ohnout (bow, bow down, crook, decline, flex, incurve), oblouk (arc, arch, archway, bow, span), křivka (graph, undulation). (various references) | |
Danish | sving (bend), kurve (road curve, turn). (various references) | |
Dutch | curve (bend), kromme (bend), bocht (bend, golf, gulf, refuse, rubbish, turn, waste). (various references) | |
Esperanto | kurbo (bend). (various references) | |
Farsi | پیچ (Bolt, Buckle, Knee, Loop, Meander, Ramp, Rick, Screw, Twine, Twist, Vis, Vortex, Whorl), چیزکج , خطمنحنی , خطخمیده انحناء . (various references) | |
Finnish | käyrä (bent, crooked, curved, diagram, graph). (various references) | |
French | virage (horizontal curve), courbure (curvature), courbe (curl, curved). (various references) | |
German | Kurve (bend, corner, graph, trajectory, turn, twist), Linie (line, outline, rank, route, trace), Krümmung (bend, bending, crook, curvature, figure, flexion, meander, turn), bogen (arc, arch, bend, bow, bulge, detour, quire, scallop, sheet, sheet of paper, slur, span, sweep, swerve, tie, turn). (various references) | |
Greek | καμπύλη (sweep), στροφή (bend, stanza, stave, turn, turning, turnover, twiddle, twist, verticil, wind, winding, wrest). (various references) | |
Hebrew | מפתל (bend, lay, twist), לעקם (bend, contort, distort, flex, twist, warp), לכופף (bend, crook, flex), לכפוף (bend, bow down, compel, incline, stoop, subject), להתעקם (be bent, buckle, wriggle), פתול (bend, coil, corded, kink, meander, torsion, twist, wrick), עקומה, חמוק (bend). (various references) | |
Hungarian | kanyar (bend, corner, curvature, loop, turning, twist, wimple), hajlat (bend, bight, camber, crook, elbow, run, shoulder, sinus, valley). (various references) | |
Indonesian | mencembungkan, membelengkik, bengkang (crooked), belokan. (various references) | |
Italian | curva (bend, bent, bow, turn, turning, twist). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 湾曲. (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | そり (arch, curvature, sled, sleigh, warp), きょくせん (polar), まがりめ (a corner, bend, bend in the road, turn, turning point), わんきょく (bend, crook), カーヴ , カーブ (curve ball). (various references) | |
Korean | 곡선 (curves, Curvilineal, Curvilinear). (various references) | |
Manx | lhoobey (arching, bend, bow, coil, coiling, curl up, double over, flex, hunch, incurvate, inflect, inflexion, loop, looping, sag, squirm, stoop, stooping, twine, winding, wriggle, writhe), lhoob (bend, coil, convolution, flexion, gulf, hank, hoop, link, rabbit snare, shackle, snare, staple clasp, stitch, twine, twine of snake, twirl), cruill (cowed person, cringe, cringe of person). (various references) | |
Norwegian | sving (bend), kurve (bend). (various references) | |
Papiamen | lorada (bend), birada (bend). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | urvecay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | curva (bend, bent, crook, flexion, knee, meander, turn, turnabout, turning, twist, winding). (various references) | |
Portuguese Brazilian | curva. (various references) | |
Romanian | curburã (bend, bent, buckle, camber, crack, crook, curvature, flexion, flexure, sweep), curbã (curvature, turn, twist, wind), curba (bend, camber, hunch, incurve, inflect), cotiturã (bend, bent, crook, double, elbow, meander, turn, turning, twist, wind, winding), cot (bend, crack, crook, cubit, curvature, elbow, Ell, knee, knuckle, loop, meander, sweep, turn, turning, twist, winding), se arcui (spring), arc (arc, arch, bow, limb, prop, spring, vault), îndoi (bend, bow, cockle, crease, crook, crouch, dog's-ear, double, draw, ear-mark, fold, hunch, inflect, ply, redouble, stoop, tuck in). (various references) | |
Russian | сгибаться (bend, bow down), характеристика (biased exponent, character reference, characteristic, characteristics, characterization, feature, pattern, performance, records, specification, testimonial), кривая линия, кривая (curl of the lips), кривизна (curvature, flection, flexion, flexure, incurvation, twist, wryness), гнуть (bend, flex, inflect), закругление, изгибаться (bend, wriggle), изгибать кривая, изгибать (bend, bend down), изгиб (arc, bend, crook, curvature, double, flection, flexure, incurvation, inflection, meanders, offset, twist, wriggle). (various references) | |
Scottish | faoch. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | vijugati (meander, snake, twist, wind), vijuga (bend, circumvolution, twist, whorl, winding), pregib (bend), okuka (bend, quirk, turning), oblina (roundness), krivina (bend, camber, curvature, flexure, sinuosity, sinus), kriva, iskriviti (bend, contort, distort, spring, turn aside, warp, wry). (various references) | |
Spanish | curva (bend, contour, crook, hook, loop, turn, upswing, wind). (various references) | |
Sranan | boktu (bend), beni (bend). (various references) | |
Swedish | kurva (bend, trace), kröka (arch, bend, crook, curl, hunch, inflect), båge (arc, arch, bow, frame, rim, slur, tie, wicket). (various references) | |
Turkish | viraj (bend, twist), kavisli şey, kavis çizmek, kavis (arc, arch, bow, camber, loop, winding), kıvrım (bend, convolution, crease, Crimp, flection, flexion, fold, frizz, hook, meander, plait, plat, sinuosity, sweep, twine, twirl, twist, undulation, volute), eğri (aslant, aslope, awry, bent, cambered, cockeyed, crooked, graph, oblique, out of the straight, sinuous, skew, skewed, slanting, sloping, slouching, slouchy, tortuous, trajectory, untrue, warped, wry), eğmek (bend, bow, buckle, cant, contort, decline, droop, flex, incline, incurve, inflect, ply, slant, spring, stoop, sway, tilt, warp), eğilmek (bend, bow, buckle, cant over, dip, double, double up, droop, duck, fall down, hang, hang over, incline, lean, sag, spring, stoop, strain, tilt, tip, warp, yield), dönemeç (bend, elbow, hook, sweep, turning, turnout, twist, wind, winding, zag), bükmek (bend, buckle, contort, crook, curl, curl up, distort, double, entwine, entwist, flex, fold, fold down, hook, inflect, intwine, spring, strand, throw, twine, twist, wind up, wrench, wrest, wring), bükülmek (bend, crook, curl up, fold, spring, twine, twist, wind). (various references) | |
Turkmen | gyюyk, epmek (fold), epilmek (bend, wrinkle 2). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | крива, кривизна (anfractuosity, bending, bent, bulging, camber, curvature, flection, flexion, hogging), гнутися, гнути (bend, bow, buckle), вигинатися (camber, elbow), вигин (arc, bend, camber, crook, elbow, twist), згинатися (bend down, crook, double up, hog, vault), згинати (crook, double in, flex, fold, inflect, overbend), лекало. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | chỗ quanh co (detour), đường vòng, đường cong. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | curva, curvi, curvus, flectamus, flectat, flectebant, flectebat, flectebatur, flecteret, flecteris, flectet, flectetur, flectitur, flecto, flexis, flexo, flexuram, flexus, incurvo, inflecto inflexi inflectum, luna, sinu, sinum, sinus. (various references) |
| Old French | 900-1400 | courbe. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Acts Chapter 28, Verse 13 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Oqen perielqonteV kathnthsamen eiV rhgion kai meta mian hmeran epigenomenou notou deuteraioi hlqomen eiV potiolouV |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Inde circumlegentes devenimus Regium et post unum diem flante austro secunda die venimus Puteolos |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | Fro thennus we seiliden aboute, and camen to Regyum; and aftir oo dai, while the south blew, in the secounde dai we camen to Puteolos. |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | And from thence we set a compasse and came to Regium. And after one daye the south wynde blewe and we came the next daye to Putiolus: |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | And from thence we fetched a compass, and came to Rhegium: and after one day the south wind blew, and we came the next day to Puteoli: |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | And from thence we made a circuit, and came to Rhegium: and after one day the south wind blew, and we came the next day to Puteoli: |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | And from there, going about in a curve, we came to Rhegium: and after one day a south wind came up and on the day after we came to Puteoli: |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Acts Chapter 28, Verse 13 |
| Albanian | Dhe, prej andej, duke lundruar afër bregut, arritëm në Rexho. Të nesërmen fryu juga dhe për dy ditë arritëm në Pocuoli. |
| Cebuano | Ug gikan didto mibordahi kami ug nahiabut sa Regio; ug usa ka adlaw tapus niini mihuros ang habagat, ug sa pagkasunod nga adlaw nahiabut kami sa Puteoli. |
| Croatian | Odande ploveæi uz obalu, stigosmo u Regij. Sutradan okrenu južnjak te za dva dana stigosmo u Puteole. |
| Danish | Derfra sejlede vi videre og kom til Regium, og efter en Dags Forløb fik vi Søndenvind og kom den næste Dag til Puteoli. |
| Dutch | Van waar wij omvoeren, en kwamen aan te Regium; en alzo, na een dag, de wind zuid werd, kwamen wij den tweeden dag te Puteoli; |
| Finnish | ja sieltä me kierrettyämme saavuimme Reegioniin, ja kun yhden päivän perästä nousi etelätuuli, tulimme seuraavana päivänä Puteoliin. |
| French | De là, en suivant la côte, nous atteignîmes Reggio; et, le vent du midi s`étant levé le lendemain, nous fîmes en deux jours le trajet jusqu`à Pouzzoles, |
| German | Und da wir umschifften, kamen wir gen Rhegion; und nach einem Tage, da der Südwind sich erhob, kamen wir des andern Tages gen Puteoli. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Dari situ kami berlayar lagi menyusur pantai sampai di kota Regium. Besoknya angin mulai bertiup dari selatan, sehingga dalam dua hari kami sampai di kota Putioli. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Dari sana berlayarlah kami berbelok-belok dan sampailah ke Regium. Maka pada keesokan harinya turun angin selatan yang membawa kami, lalu pada lusanya kami tiba di Putioli. |
| Latvian | No turienes, gar piekrasti braucot, mçs nonâcâm Rçgijâ; un kad pçc vienas dienas sacçlâs dienvidu vçjð, mçs otrâ dienâ nonâcâm Puteolos. |
| Maori | Na ka awhio ake matou i reira, ka u ki Rekiuma: ka po tahi ka pa te tonga, a i te rua o nga ra ka u ki Puteori: |
| Norwegian | og efterat vi derfra hadde seilt rundt kysten, kom vi til Regium. Dagen efter blev det sønnenvind, så vi efter to dagers fart kom til Puteoli. |
| Portuguese | donde, costeando, viemos a Régio; e, soprando no dia seguinte o vento sul, chegamos em dois dias a Putéoli, |
| Rumanian | De acolo, am mers knainte pe lkngq coastq, wi am venit la Regio; iar a doua zi, fiindcq sufla vkntul de miazqzi, dupq douq zile, am venit la Puzole, |
| Russian | пФФХДБ ПФРМЩЧ, РТЙВЩМЙ Ч тЙЗЙА; Й ЛБЛ ЮЕТЕЪ ДЕОШ РПДХМ АЦОЩК ЧЕФЕТ, РТЙВЩМЙ ОБ ЧФПТПК ДЕОШ Ч рХФЕПМ, |
| Shuar | Tura Jíinkir nuyanka nayaantsa ayamach weri Rijiu péprunam jeamiaji. Nui kanarmiaji. Tura kashin anaria nase suut umpuunti Támiayi. Tuma asamtai Nú kashinkia Putiuri péprunam jeamiaji. |
| Swahili | Toka huko tuling`oa nanga, tukazunguka na kufika Regio. Baada ya siku moja, upepo ulianza kuvuma kutoka kusini, na baada ya siku mbili tulifika bandari ya Potioli. |
| Swedish | Därifrån foro vi längs kusten och kommo till Regium. Dagen därefter fingo vi sunnanvind, och vi kommo så redan på andra dagen till Puteoli. |
| Uma | Ngkai ree, kaliliu wo'o-makai mpewiwi' tahi', rata hi ngata Regium. Kamepulo-na, mewui ngolu' to lompe' ngkai selatan. Toe pai' mogasi pomako' kapal-kai, pai' ro'eo oti toe rata-makai hi ngata Putioli hi tana' Italia. Mana'u-makai ngkai kapal hi ree. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "curve": curveball, curveballed, curveballing, curveballs, curved, curvedly, curves, curvet, curveted, curveting, curvets, curvetted, curvetting, curvey. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "curve": decurve, incurve, outcurve, recurve, upcurve. (additional references) | |
Words containing "curve": decurved, decurves, incurved, incurves, outcurves, recurved, recurves, upcurved, upcurves. (additional references) | |
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"Curve" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Cerva, Cervl, Corve, corvee, corven, Corvey, courve, crev, cruf, Cuervo, Cueva, curbe, curee, curf, curfe, curft, Curme, Curva, Curvex, curvey, curvit, curvo, cuve, Lurrve, lurve, scurve, surve. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "curve" (pronounced ker"v) |
| 2 | -er" v | conserve, deserve, nerve, observe, oeuvre, preserve, reserve, serve, swerve, unnerve, verve. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-r-u-v" | |
-1 letter: cure, ecru. | |
-2 letters: cue, cur, ecu, rec, rev, rue. | |
-3 letters: er, re. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-r-u-v" | |
+1 letter: culver, curved, curves, curvet, curvey. | |
+2 letters: coverup, culvers, culvert, cursive, curvets, curvier, cutover, decurve, incurve, overcut, recurve, uncover, upcurve, verruca, voucher. | |
+3 letters: acervuli, avoucher, coverups, culverin, culverts, curative, cursives, curvedly, curveted, curviest, cutovers, decurved, decurves, i | |
