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CURVING
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Having or marked by a curve or smoothly rounded bend
Example:
his curved lips suggested a smile but his eyes were hard
Synonyms:
curved; curving
Classified under:
Similar:
arced; arched; arching; arciform; arcuate; bowed (forming or resembling an arch)
curvilineal; curvilinear (characterized by or following a curved line)
eellike (resembling an eel in being long and thin and sinuous)
falcate; falciform; sickle-shaped (curved like a sickle)
flexuous (having turns or windings)
hooked; hooklike (having or resembling a hook (especially in the ability to grasp and hold))
incurvate; incurved (bent into or having an inward curve)
recurvate; recurved (curved backward or inward)
semicircular (curved into a half circle)
serpentine; snakelike; snaky (resembling a serpent in form)
sinuate; sinuous; wiggly (curved or curving in and out)
sinusoidal (having a succession of waves or curves)
upcurved (curving upward)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
-ing form of the verb curve
Context examples:
It is characterized by the formation of arborizing and curving capillaries.
(Chicken-Wire Vasculature, NCI Thesaurus)
The building was of grey, lichen-blotched stone, with a high central portion and two curving wings, like the claws of a crab, thrown out on each side.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The day had been dull and overcast, but the sun now burst through the clouds, a welcome omen, and shone upon the curving beach where together we had dared the lords of the harem and slain the holluschickie.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
Then Buck took to rushing, as though for the throat, when, suddenly drawing back his head and curving in from the side, he would drive his shoulder at the shoulder of Spitz, as a ram by which to overthrow him.
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
Modern improvements have altered the place; but it was the last house at the bottom of a narrow street, curving down hill to the river, with some stairs at the end, where people took boat.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
It ended in a curving staircase, with the commissionnaire’s lodge in the passage at the bottom.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Holmes led the way up the curving, uncarpeted stair.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
In front was an open plain, sloping slightly upwards and dotted with clumps of tree-ferns, the whole curving before us until it ended in a long, whale-backed ridge.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
She might have been five-and-thirty years of age, with aquiline nose, firm yet sensitive mouth, dark curving brows, and deep-set eyes which shone and sparkled with a shifting brilliancy.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
If we chose to roll upon our right sides, the whole weald lay in front of us, with the North Downs curving away in olive-green folds, with here and there the snow-white rift of a chalk-pit; if we turned upon our left, we overlooked the huge blue stretch of the Channel.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
