curve curve ball
breaking ball
bender | a pitch of a baseball that is thrown with spin so that its path curves as it approaches the batter |
| inside loop | a loop consisting of a climb followed by inverted flight followed by a dive that returns to horizontal flight |
knee bend
squat squatting | exercising by repeatedly assuming a crouching position with the knees bent, strengthens the leg muscles |
| inside job | some transgression committed with the assistance of someone trusted by the victim, the police decided that the crime was an inside job |
bend
curve | curved segment (of a road or river or railroad track etc.) |
| bend bend dexter | diagonal line traversing a shield from the upper right corner to the lower left |
blind curve
blind bend | a curve or bend in the road that you cannot see around as you are driving |
| carrick bend | a knot used to connect the ends of two large ropes or hawsers |
| fisherman's bend | a knot for tying a line to a spar or ring |
| hairpin bend | a U-shaped bend in a road |
| hawser bend | a knot uniting the ends of two lines |
| inside caliper | caliper for measuring inside dimensions (the size of a cavity or hole), points on its legs curve outward |
| inside clinch | a clinch with the end of the line inside the loop |
sheet bend
becket bend
weaver's knot
weaver's hitch | a hitch used for temporarily tying a rope to the middle of another rope (or to an eye) |
| curvature curve | the property possessed by the curving of a line or surface |
| inside track | a favorable position in a competition, the boss's son had the inside track for that job |
normal curve
bell-shaped curve
Gaussian curve
Gaussian shape | a symmetrical curve representing the normal distribution |
regression line
regression curve | a smooth curve fitted to the set of paired data in regression analysis, for linear regression the curve is a straight line |
details
inside information | true confidential information, after the trial he gave us the real details |
bar sinister
bend sinister | a mark of bastardy, lines from top right to bottom left |
frequencyesponse curve
frequencyesponse characteristic | (electronics) a graph of frequency response with signal amplitude or gain plotted against frequency |
| curve | a line on a graph representing data |
characteristic curve
characterisic function | (electronics) graph showing how a particular characteristic of a device varies with other parameters |
| Laffer curve | a graph purporting to show the relation between tax rates and government income, income increases as tax rates increase up to an optimum beyond which income declines |
| learning curve | a graph showing the rate of learning (especially a graph showing the amount recalled as a function of the number of attempts to recall) |
bending
bend | movement that causes the formation of a curve |
inside
interior | the inner or enclosed surface of something |
| inside interior | the region that is inside of something |
| Big Bend | a triangular area in southwestern Texas on the Mexican border, formed by a bend in the Rio Grande |
| Big Bend National Park | a large national park in Texas featuring mountains and desert and canyons and wildlife |
| South Bend | a city in northern Indiana |
| Bend | a town in central Oregon at the eastern foot of the Cascade Range |
Inland Passage
Inside Passage | a naturally protected waterway from Seattle to Skagway in southeastern Alaska |
| inside track | the inner side of a curved racecourse |
| exponential curve | a graph of an exponential function |
curve
curved shape | the trace of a point whose direction of motion changes |
| closed curve | a curve (such as a circle) having no endpoints |
simple closed curve
Jordan curve | a closed curve that does not intersect itself |
bend crook
twist turn | a circular segment of a curve, a bend in the road, a crook in the path |
fold
crease plication
flexure
crimp
bend | an angular or rounded shape made by folding, a fold in the napkin, a crease in his trousers, a plication on her blouse, a flexure of the colon, a bend of his elbow |
sine curve
sinusoid | the curve of ysin x |
decompression sickness
aeroembolism air embolism gas embolism caisson disease
bends | pain resulting from rapid change in pressure |
fall over backwards
bend over backwards | try very hard to please someone, She falls over backwards when she sees her mother-in-law |
curl
curve
kink | form a curl, curve, or kink, the cigar smoke curled up at the ceiling |
flex bend
deform twist turn b | cause (a plastic object) to assume a crooked or angular form, bend the rod, twist the dough into a braid, the strong man could turn an iron bar |
| flex bend | bend a joint, flex your wrists, bend your knees |
| bend | change direction, The road bends |
swerve
sheer
curve
trend
veer
slue
slew
cut | turn sharply, change direction abruptly, The car cut to the left at the intersection, The motorbike veered to the right |
| deflect bend turn away | turn from a straight course, fixed direction, or line of interest |
crook
curve | bend or cause to bend, He crooked his index finger, the road curved sharply |