Need another word that means the same as “curves”? Find 20 synonyms and 30 related words for “curves” in this overview.
The synonyms of “Curves” are: curved shape, bend, curvature, bender, breaking ball, curve ball, curl, kink, cut, sheer, slew, slue, swerve, trend, veer, crook, twist, wind, arc, arch
According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, “curves” as a noun can have the following definitions:
| bend | A kind of knot used to join two ropes together or to tie a rope to another object e g a carrick bend. The van screeched round a bend. |
| breaking ball | The act of breaking something. |
| curvature | A numerical quantity expressing curvature. The curvature of the earth. |
| curve ball | Curved segment (of a road or river or railroad track etc. |
| curved shape | A line on a graph representing data. |
According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, “curves” as a verb can have the following definitions:
| arc | Form an arch or curve. The outage was caused by a bad switch that arced. |
| arch | Have the curved shape of an arch. Her back arches. |
| crook | Bend or cause to bend. He crooked his index finger. |
| curl | Play the Scottish game of curling. Her fingers curled round the microphone. |
| cut | Cut down on make a reduction in. His opponent cut upward toward his chin. |
| kink | Form a curl curve or kink. The river kinks violently in a right angle. |
| sheer | Cause to sheer. She sheered her car around the obstacle. |
| slew | Of an electronic device undergo slewing. The Renault slewed from side to side in the snow. |
| slue | Move obliquely or sideways, usually in an uncontrolled manner. |
| swerve | Change or cause to change direction abruptly. O Hara swerved the motorcycle round the corner. |
| trend | Turn sharply; change direction abruptly. The Richelieu River trending southward to Lake Champlain. |
| twist | Twist suddenly so as to sprain. Twist the dough into a braid. |
| veer | Turn sharply; change direction abruptly. The motorbike veered to the right. |
| wind | Catch the scent of get wind of. The birds could not have seen us or winded us. |
| arc | A shape or structure resembling an arc. His transformation provides the emotional arc of the story. |
| bent | A special way of doing something. A bent cop. |
| bow | A decorative ribbon tied in a bow. He bowed before the King. |
| circle | Something in the shape of a circle. Draw a circle with a compass. |
| circular | Having a circular shape. The reality of standard English rests on the circular argument that that is good which good users use. |
| concave | Curving inward. Concave lenses. |
| convex | (of a polygon) not having any interior angles greater than 180°. A convex lens. |
| cycloid | A curve (resembling a series of arches) traced by a point on a circle being rolled along a straight line. |
| dome | A thing shaped like a dome. The dome of the sky. |
| ellipse | A regular oval shape, traced by a point moving in a plane so that the sum of its distances from two other points (the foci) is constant, or resulting when a cone is cut by an oblique plane which does not intersect the base. The sums of the distances from the foci to any point on an ellipse is constant. |
| elliptical | Characterized by extreme economy of expression or omission of superfluous elements- H.O.Taylor. She had completely misunderstood his elliptical declaration. |
| epicycloid | A curve traced by a point on the circumference of a circle rolling on the exterior of another circle. |
| geometry | A particular system of geometry. The geometry of spiders webs. |
| glide | The activity of flying a glider. Students learning to glide. |
| hyperbola | The pair of hyperbolas formed by the intersection of a plane with two equal cones on opposite sides of the same vertex. |
| hyperbolic | Denoting trigonometrical functions defined with reference to a hyperbola rather than a circle. A hyperbolic style. |
| oval | A body object or design with an oval shape or outline. Her smooth oval face. |
| ovoid | An ovoid body or surface. |
| parabolic | Of or expressed in parables. Parabolic teaching. |
| peristyle | A space such as a court or porch that is surrounded or edged by a peristyle. |
| radius | A circular region whose area is indicated by the length of its radius. Brian carefully radiused all the sharp edges and corners. |
| rounded | Having a smooth, curved surface. His large rounded stomach. |
| shaped | Shaped to fit by or as if by altering the contours of a pliable mass as by work or effort. Her oval shaped face. |
| sinuous | Having many curves and turns. The sinuous grace of a cat. |
| slide | Plaything consisting of a sloping chute down which children can slide. The violinist was indulgent with his swoops and slides. |
| smoothly | Without problems or difficulties. Everything seemed to be going smoothly. |
| swoop | A swooping or snatching movement or action. Armed police swooped on a flat after a tip off. |
| tangent | A straight line or plane that touches a curve or curved surface at a point, but if extended does not cross it at that point. This curve is tangent to the average cost curve. |
| twist | A dance with a twisting movement of the body popular in the 1960s. Barrels with a 1 24 inch twist. |
| winding | The act of winding or twisting. A winding country road. |
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