Synonyms for curve
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1. curve

   In some cases a thing is spoken of as bent where the parts make an angle; but oftener to bend is understood to be to draw to or through a curve; as, to bend a bow. To submit or yield is to bend the mind humbly to another's wishes. To incline or influence is to bend another's wishes toward our own; to persuade is to draw them quite over. To warp is to bend silently through the whole fiber, as a board in the sun. To crook is to bend irregularly, as a crooked stick. Deflect, deviate, and diverge are said of any turning away; deviate commonly of a slight and gradual movement, diverge of a more sharp and decided one. To bias is to cut across the texture, or incline to one side; in figurative use always with an unfavorable import. Mold is a stronger work than bend; we may bend by a superior force that which still resists the constraint; as, a bent bow; we mold something plastic entirely to some desired form.

   Synonyms:
   bend, bias, bow, crook, deflect, deviate, diverge, incline, influence, mold, persuade, stoop, submit, turn, twine, twist, warp, yield

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1. curveverb

   Synonyms:
   incurve, bend, inflex, falcate, arcuate

   Antonyms:
   straighten, unbend, rectilineate

2. curvenoun

   Synonyms:
   incurvation, flexion, deflexion

   Antonyms:
   rigidity, inelasticity, inflexibility, rectilinearity

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1. curve, curved shapenoun

   the trace of a point whose direction of motion changes

   Synonyms:
   bender, bend, curved shape, breaking ball, curvature, curve ball

   Antonyms:
   straight line

2. curvenoun

   a line on a graph representing data

   Synonyms:
   bender, bend, curved shape, breaking ball, curvature, curve ball

   Antonyms:
   straight line

3. curve, curve ball, breaking ball, bendernoun

   a pitch of a baseball that is thrown with spin so that its path curves as it approaches the batter

   Synonyms:
   booze-up, toot, bender, carousal, carouse, curvature, bend, curve ball, curved shape, breaking ball

   Antonyms:
   straight line

4. curvature, curvenoun

   the property possessed by the curving of a line or surface

   Synonyms:
   bender, bend, curved shape, breaking ball, curvature, curve ball

   Antonyms:
   straight line

5. bend, curveverb

   curved segment (of a road or river or railroad track etc.)

   Synonyms:
   turn, flexure, plication, breaking ball, twist, bend, bend dexter, crease, curvature, crimp, bending, fold, bender, crook, curve ball, curved shape

   Antonyms:
   straight line

6. swerve, sheer, curve, trend, veer, slue, slew, cutverb

   turn sharply; change direction abruptly

   "The car cut to the left at the intersection"; "The motorbike veered to the right"

   Synonyms:
   foreshorten, veer, bring down, wind, turn off, edit out, arch, twist, hack, trim down, write out, prune, thin, kink, cut, rationalize, trim back, trim, ignore, swerve, shorten, crook, edit, thin out, cut down, skip, abridge, reduce, rationalise, arc, contract, burn, dilute, switch off, sheer, make out, geld, slew, disregard, tailor, cut off, turn out, snub, slue, slide, issue, cut back, abbreviate, trend, curl, slip, skid

   Antonyms:
   straight line

7. wind, twist, curveverb

   extend in curves and turns

   "The road winds around the lake"; "the path twisted through the forest"

   Synonyms:
   bend, wriggle, wrick, wind, deform, nose, meander, hoist, thread, arch, twist, veer, rick, kink, worm, roll, lift, flex, convolute, writhe, scent, wrench, wind up, wrap, turn, sheer, wander, sophisticate, trend, sprain, swerve, slew, twist around, twine, distort, wrestle, wreathe, arc, squirm, slue, crook, weave, pervert, curl, cut

   Antonyms:
   straight line

8. arch, curve, arcverb

   form an arch or curve

   "her back arches"; "her hips curve nicely"

   Synonyms:
   trend, twist, sheer, kink, slue, arc, wind, veer, cut, slew, curl, crook, arch, swerve

   Antonyms:
   straight line

9. crook, curveverb

   bend or cause to bend

   "He crooked his index finger"; "the road curved sharply"

   Synonyms:
   trend, twist, sheer, kink, slue, arc, wind, veer, cut, slew, curl, crook, arch, swerve

   Antonyms:
   straight line

10. curl, curve, kinkverb

    form a curl, curve, or kink

    "the cigar smoke curled up at the ceiling"

    Synonyms:
    wave, arc, curl up, sheer, slew, loop, twist, slue, curl, frizz, arch, crimp, cut, swerve, wind, crape, trend, kink up, coil, kink, crook, frizzle, veer, draw in

    Antonyms:
    straight line

Matched Categories

1. • Bend
   • Change Surface
   • Line
   • Pitch
   • Shape

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1. curvenoun

   Synonyms:
   bend, flexure, CURVATURE

2. curve

   Synonyms:
   n. a. bend, crook, inflect

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1. curveverb

   Synonyms:
   bend, crook, turn, inflect, deflect, deviate, wind

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1. List of paraphrases for "curve":

   curved, bend, curves, curvature, graph, bulge, plot, sag, line, plotted, pattern, contoured

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1. Phyllis Diller:

   A smile is a curve that sets everything straight.

2. Christine Lagarde:

   So, what we have said is, the IMF thinks that it is better to make sure that the data are absolutely confirmed, that there is no uncertainty, neither on the front of price stability, nor on the front of employment and unemployment, before it actually makes that move, and that would call for being in the curve, rather than necessarily ahead of the curve or indeed behind the curve.

3. Oystein Berentsen:

   The flat curve is related to the shale oil boom. The back of the curve is broken because of producers selling as soon as curve prices edge up. They need the cash, especially shale and medium-sized producers.

4. Link Starbureiy:

   We can see that taxes are important in Life, not because of greed, but because Nature's way of dealing with insecurity is to bound residues to an algebraic curve.

5. Robin Green:

   That's the whole thing with the hog. It's you and 80 wild horses under your butt, just sitting on 10 square inches where the rubber meets the road. That hurricane gale wind whipping you in the face, leaning into a curve you can feel that gravity wanting to suck you down into it and what do you do Give it a little more gas. Pure centrifugal force. You can see yourself hurtling ass end over teakettle into oblivion.