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Disappointment
A short heavy sword with a curved single-edged blade, once used as a weapon by sailors.
Engineer's warning to man on left side of cab when approaching curve
Not keeping up with expectations. Technically, any airspeed less than that for the maximum liftto-drag ratio, which is that portion of the power curve (a graphical plot of engine power vs. aircraft speed) at which the aircraft requires more power to go slower in steady level flight.
curved pieces of wood for made for a horse’s collar
sled with stout wooden curved runners up in fron and with a vertical stick, or horn, at each corneer, either hauled by a horse, dog or man. Used for carting wood and other heavy loads. Also, used for pleasure, passengers facing one side of the sleigh
a long curve in the coastline
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a.
A bending without angles; that which is bent; a flexure; as, a curve in a railway or canal.
v. t.
To cause to curvet.
a.
That can be passed over in a single course; -- said of a curve when the coordinates of the point on the curve can be expressed as rational algebraic functions of a single parameter /.
n.
The point in any figure opposite to, and farthest from, the base; the terminating point of some particular line or lines in a figure or a curve; the top, or the point opposite the base.
n.
A water wheel, commonly horizontal, variously constructed, but usually having a series of curved floats or buckets, against which the water acts by its impulse or reaction in flowing either outward from a central chamber, inward from an external casing, or from above downward, etc.; -- also called turbine wheel.
a.
Having the shape of a hook; being of a curved or hooked from; hooklike.
n.
To make a curvet; to leap; to bound.
imp. & p. p.
of Curve
imp. & p. p.
of Curvet
n.
The bound or leap of a horse; a curvet.
n.
A limited reciprocating motion of a particle of an elastic body or medium in alternately opposite directions from its position of equilibrium, when that equilibrium has been disturbed, as when a stretched cord or other body produces musical notes, or particles of air transmit sounds to the ear. The path of the particle may be in a straight line, in a circular arc, or in any curve whatever.
p. pr. & vb. n.
of Curvet
n.
A drum-shaped wheel with spirally curved partitions by which water is raised to the axis when the wheel revolves with the lower part of the circumference submerged, -- used for raising water, as for irrigation.
n.
The state of being curved.
n.
The curved plate in which the form is held in a type-revolving cylinder press.
a.
Bent without angles; crooked; curved; as, a curve line; a curve surface.
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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.
n.
A wind instrument of great antiquity, much used in war and military exercises, and of great value in the orchestra. In consists of a long metallic tube, curved (once or twice) into a convenient shape, and ending in a bell. Its scale in the lower octaves is limited to the first natural harmonics; but there are modern trumpets capable, by means of valves or pistons, of producing every tone within their compass, although at the expense of the true ringing quality of tone.
n.
One of foci of an ellipse, or other curve.
v. i.
To bend or turn gradually from a given direction; as, the road curves to the right.
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