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 |
long-billed marsh wren Cistothorus palustris | American wren that inhabits tall reed beds |
sedge wren short-billed marsh wren Cistothorus platensis | small American wren inhabiting wet sedgy meadows |
hadrosaur hadrosaurus duck-billed dinosaur | any of numerous large bipedal ornithischian dinosaurs having a horny duck-like bill and webbed feet, may have been partly aquatic |
black-billed cuckoo Coccyzus erythropthalmus | North American cuckoo, builds a nest and rears its own young |
ivorybill ivory-billed woodpecker Campephilus principalis | large black-and-white woodpecker of southern United States and Cuba having an ivory bill, nearly extinct |
platypus duckbill duckbilled platypus duck-billed platypus Ornithorhynchus anatinus | small densely furred aquatic monotreme of Australia and Tasmania having a broad bill and tail and webbed feet, only species in the family Ornithorhynchidae |
boatbill boat-billed heron broadbill Cochlearius cochlearius | tropical American heron related to night herons |
razorbill razor-billed auk Alca torda | black-and-white northern Atlantic auk having a compressed sharp-edged bill |
thick-billed murre Uria lomvia | a variety of murre |
pied-billed grebe Podilymbus podiceps | American grebe having a black-banded whitish bill |
bend curve | curved segment (of a road or river or railroad track etc.) |
blind curve blind bend | a curve or bend in the road that you cannot see around as you are driving |
curvature curve | the property possessed by the curving of a line or surface |
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 |
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) |
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 |
sine curve sinusoid | the curve of ysin x |
curl curve kink | form a curl, curve, or kink, the cigar smoke curled up at the ceiling |
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 |
crook curve | bend or cause to bend, He crooked his index finger, the road curved sharply |
arch curve arc | form an arch or curve, her back arches, her hips curve nicely |
wind twist curve | extend in curves and turns, The road winds around the lake, the path twisted through the forest |
billed | having a beak or bill as specified, a thick-billed bird, a long-billed cap |
duckbill duck-billed | having a beak resembling that of a duck, a duck-billed dinosaur |
short-beaked short-billed | having a short beak |
stout-billed | having a strong beak |
straight-billed | having a straight beak |
thick-billed | having a thick beak |