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Curve (1 Occurrence)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (a.) Bent without angles; crooked; curved; as,
a curve line; a curve surface. 2. (n.) A bending without ...
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Quicken (16 Occurrences)
... 3. (v.) To shorten the radius of (a curve); to make (a curve) sharper; as, to
quicken the sheer, that is, to make its curve more pronounced. ...
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Bend (29 Occurrences)
... 1. (vt) To strain or move out of a straight line; to crook by straining; to make
crooked; to curve; to make ready for use by drawing into a curve; as, to bend ...
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Arch (24 Occurrences)
... n.) Usually a curved member made up of separate wedge-shaped solids, with the joints
between them disposed in the direction of the radii of the curve; used to ...
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Normal (3 Occurrences)
... 8. (n.) A straight line or plane drawn from any point of a curve or surface so
as to be perpendicular to the curve or surface at that point. ...
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Envelop (1 Occurrence)
... 5. (n.) A curve or surface which is tangent to each member of a system of curves
or surfaces, the form and position of the members of the system being allowed ...
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Element (1 Occurrence)
... 8. (n.) Sometimes a curve, or surface, or volume is considered as described by a
moving point, or curve, or surface, the latter being at any instant called an ...
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Bow (248 Occurrences)
... 5. (vt) To express by bowing; as, to bow one's thanks. 6. (vi) To bend; to curve. ...
11. (vt) Anything bent, or in the form of a curve, as the rainbow. 12. ...
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Curved (10 Occurrences)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary (imp. & pp) of Curve. Multi-Version Concordance
Curved (10 Occurrences). Revelation 14:14 And I saw a white ...
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Sweep (34 Occurrences)
... a compass. 17. (n.) Direction or departure of a curve, a road, an arch,
or the like, away from a rectilinear line. 18. (n.) One ...
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Bible Concordance

Curve (1 Occurrence)

Acts 28:13 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:
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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

1. (a.) Bent without angles; crooked; curved; as, a curve line; a curve surface.

2. (n.) A bending without angles; that which is bent; a flexure; as, a curve in a railway or canal.

3. (n.) A line described according to some low, and having no finite portion of it a straight line.

4. (v.) 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.

Greek

2949. kuma -- a wave
... wave. From kuo (to swell (with young), ie Bend, curve); a billow (as bursting or
toppling) -- wave. (kumata) -- 2 Occurrences. (kumaton) -- 3 Occurrences. ...
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Strong's Hebrew

2542. chammuq -- curving, curve
... 2541, 2542. chammuq. 2543 . curving, curve. Transliteration: chammuq Phonetic
Spelling: (kham-mook') Short Definition: curves. Word ...
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1354. gab -- a back
... From an unused root meaning to hollow or curve; the back (as rounded (compare gev
and guwph); by analogy, the top or rim, a boss, a vault, arch of eye, bulwarks ...
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3721. kaphaph -- to bend, bend down, be bent or bowed
... down (3), bowing (1). bow down self. A primitive root; to curve -- bow down
(self). 3720, 3721. kaphaph. 3722 . Strong's Numbers.
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404. akaph -- to press, urge
... root Definition to press, urge NASB Word Usage urges (1). crave. A primitive root;
apparently meaning to curve (as with a burden); to urge -- crave. 403, 404 ...
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6760. tsala -- to limp
... halt. A primitive root: probably to curve; used only as denominative from tsela',
to limp (as if one-sided) -- halt. see HEBREW tsela'. 6759, 6760. ...
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Library

The Call Intensified
... We have been to the various towns in this and the upper curve of the mountains,
but we have not reached the lower curve towns, or half of the many villages ...
/.../wilson-carmichael/things as they are/chapter xviii the call intensified.htm

Whether the Vestments of the Ministers are Fittingly Instituted in ...
... for which reason it has two crests; the "crozier," his pastoral care, whereby he
has to gather together the wayward (this is denoted by the curve at the head ...
/.../aquinas/summa theologica/whether the vestments of the.htm

The Arrest of the Body
... in the world will never discover any other way of bridging a space than these three,
the Lintel, the Round Arch, the Gable; they may vary the curve of the arch ...
/.../drummond/the lowell lectures on the ascent of man/chapter iii the arrest of.htm

The Paradoxes of Christianity
... the last moment. From the grand curve of our earth it could easily be inferred
that every inch of it was thus curved. It would seem ...
/.../chesterton/orthodoxy/vi the paradoxes of christianity.htm

There is a Definite Moment at which the Seed is Ripe...
... of penetration, as they are driven in, spite of all their weakness, that they bury
themselves up to the very hilt, leaving only the last long curve flat on the ...
/.../trotter/parables of the christ-life/section 6 there is a.htm

Christ's Birth
... It stood above the stone trough lying on the ground, to the right of the entrance,
where the cave makes a big curve towards the south. ...
/.../emmerich/the life of the blessed virgin mary/xi christs birth.htm

The Teen Boy and Missions
... Then the fellow whom he teaches to "throw a curve" in the vacant lot, or the
foreign-speaking boy, who can "shoot a basket," to whom he gives a half-hour ...
/.../alexander/the boy and the sunday school/xvi the teen boy and.htm

Fortified by this Knowledge against Heathen views, Let us Rather ...
... separate the people running down, ways. The place in the curve where the matrons
sit is called a chair. Therefore, on the contrary, it ...
/.../tertullian/the shows or de spectaculis/chapter iii fortified by this.htm

The New Testament Immediately Emancipated Itself from the ...
... The Apostolic Tradition of Doctrine and the New Testament."The curve of movement
of doctrine and life in the Church since the beginning of the third century ...
/.../harnack/the origin of the new testament/ 1 the new testament.htm

The Chain of Circumstance had Lengthened by Several Links Round ...
... unfortunate and tiresome!" said Sylvie, with a charming pout and upward look at
her lover, who promptly kissed the lips that made such a pretty curve of disdain ...
/.../corelli/the master-christian/xxxiii the chain of circumstance.htm

Subtopics

Curve

Related Terms

Quicken (16 Occurrences)

Bend (29 Occurrences)

Arch (24 Occurrences)

Normal (3 Occurrences)

Envelop (1 Occurrence)

Element (1 Occurrence)

Bow (248 Occurrences)

Curved (10 Occurrences)

Sweep (34 Occurrences)