curve

Etymology
Attested since the 1690s, from, ultimately from +. .

Adjective

 * 1)  Bent without angles; crooked; curved.

Noun

 * 1) A gentle bend, such as in a road.
 * 2) A simple figure containing no straight portions and no angles; a curved line.
 * 3) A grading system based on the scale of performance of a group used to normalize a right-skewed grade distribution (with more lower scores) into a bell curve, so that more can receive higher grades, regardless of their actual knowledge of the subject.
 * 4)  A continuous map from a one-dimensional space to a multidimensional space.
 * 5)  A one-dimensional figure of non-zero length; the graph of a continuous map from a one-dimensional space.
 * 6)  An algebraic curve; a polynomial relation of the planar coordinates.
 * 7)  A one-dimensional continuum.
 * 8)  The attractive shape of a woman's body.
 * 1)  An algebraic curve; a polynomial relation of the planar coordinates.
 * 2)  A one-dimensional continuum.
 * 3)  The attractive shape of a woman's body.

Translations

 * Afrikaans: kurwe
 * Arabic: منحنى
 * Armenian:
 * Basque:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 彎
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:, ,
 * Esperanto: kurbo, kurbiĝo, sinuo, ĝirejo, vojturno
 * Estonian:
 * Finnish:, ,
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * Georgian:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: καμπή
 * Hebrew: עקימה
 * Higaonon: likoliko
 * Hindi: ,
 * Hungarian:, , , , ,
 * Ido:
 * Indonesian:
 * Ingrian: mutka
 * Irish: cuar
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Khmer:
 * Korean:
 * Latin:, curvāmen, flexus
 * Latvian: līkums
 * Lithuanian: linkis, vingis
 * Macedonian: сви́ок
 * Maori: ānau, kapu
 * Marathi: वळण
 * Mongolian:
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Nynorsk: kurve
 * Old English: byġe
 * Ottoman Turkish: كوشه
 * Persian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:, ,
 * Sanskrit:
 * Scottish Gaelic: bogha, lùb
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Telugu:
 * Thai:
 * Turkish:
 * Vietnamese: khúc quanh
 * Yiddish: אויסבייג


 * Albanian:
 * Arabic:
 * Armenian:
 * Bulgarian: крива линия
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 曲線
 * Mandarin:
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian:
 * Finnish:
 * Galician:
 * Georgian:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew:
 * Hungarian: görbe/íves/ívelt/kanyargó vonal
 * Irish: cuar
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Khmer:
 * Korean:
 * Maori: ānau
 * Mongolian:
 * Navajo: ahééʼídzoh
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Nynorsk: kurve
 * Persian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili: mchirizo
 * Tagalog: kilo, guhit na kilo
 * Thai:
 * Turkish:
 * Vietnamese: đường cong


 * Afrikaans: kurwe
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Esperanto: kurbo
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * Georgian: წირი, მრუდი
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hungarian:, ,
 * Icelandic:
 * Ido:
 * Indonesian:
 * Irish: cuar
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Latvian: līkne
 * Lithuanian: kreivė
 * Macedonian: кри́ва
 * Navajo: ahééʼídzoh
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Nynorsk: kurve
 * Persian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:, linie curbă, linie curbată
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic: bogha, lùb
 * Slovene: krivulja
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: kilo
 * Turkish:
 * Zazaki:


 * Afrikaans: kurwe
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 曲線
 * Danish: kurver
 * Dutch: ,
 * Finnish:, kurvit
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek:, καμπύλες
 * Hebrew: חיטובים
 * Hindi:
 * Hungarian: idomok,
 * Italian:
 * Macedonian: о́блина, о́блини
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: (usually plural: изги́бы)
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: облине, облѝна
 * Roman: ,
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: ,
 * Telugu: వంపులు, వొంపులు
 * Turkish:

Verb

 * 1)  To bend; to crook.
 * 2)  To cause to swerve from a straight course.
 * 3)  To bend or turn gradually from a given direction.
 * 4)  To grade on a curve (bell curve of a normal distribution).
 * 5)   To reject, to turn down romantic advances.
 * 1)  To bend or turn gradually from a given direction.
 * 2)  To grade on a curve (bell curve of a normal distribution).
 * 3)   To reject, to turn down romantic advances.
 * 1)   To reject, to turn down romantic advances.
 * 1)   To reject, to turn down romantic advances.

Translations

 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Catalan: ,
 * Dutch:, ,
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * Georgian: ღუნვა
 * German: ,
 * Hindi:
 * Hungarian:, ,
 * Irish: cuar
 * Italian:
 * Korean:
 * Macedonian: ви́тка, сви́ткува, искри́вува
 * Middle English: croken
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Russian: ,
 * Scottish Gaelic: crom, lùb
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swedish: ,
 * Turkish:, ,


 * Hungarian: ,
 * Portuguese:


 * Bulgarian: извивам се
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * Galician:
 * Georgian: გაღუნვა
 * Hungarian:, , ,
 * Ido:
 * Irish: cuar,, cor,
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Khmer:
 * Korean:
 * Macedonian: се и́звива
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: ,
 * Scottish Gaelic: lùb
 * Swedish:
 * Turkish:


 * Indonesian:

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) curve
 * 2)  standards

Etymology
Borrowed from.