Curb vs Avoid - What's the difference?
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(North America) A row of concrete along the edge of a road; a kerb (UK )
A raised margin along the edge of something, such as a well or the eye of a dome, as a strengthening.
Something that checks or restrains; a restraint.
* Denham
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A riding or driving bit for a horse that has rein action which amplifies the pressure in the mouth by leverage advantage placing pressure on the poll via the crown piece of the bridle and chin groove via a curb chain.
* Drayton
(North America) A sidewalk, covered or partially enclosed, bordering the airport terminal road system with an adjacent paved areas to permit vehicles to off-load or load passengers.
A swelling on the back part of the hind leg of a horse, just behind the lowest part of the hock joint, generally causing lameness.
To check, restrain or control.
* "Curb your dog."
* Prior
To rein in.
To furnish with a curb, as a well; to restrain by a curb, as a bank of earth.
To force to "bite the curb" (hit the pavement curb); see curb stomp.
To damage vehicle wheels or tires by running into or over a pavement curb.
To bend or curve.
* Holland
To crouch; to cringe.
* Shakespeare
To keep away from; to keep clear of; to endeavor not to meet; to shun; to abstain from.
:I try to avoid the company of gamblers.
*1526 , Bible , tr. William Tyndale, Matthew 4:
*:The devyllsayde unto hym: all these will I geve the, iff thou wilt faull doune and worship me. Then sayde Jesus unto hym. Avoyde Satan.
*Milton
*:What need a man forestall his date of grief, / And run to meet what he would most avoid ?
*Macaulay
*:He carefully avoided every act which could goad them into open hostility.
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, title= (obsolete) To make empty; to clear.
:(Wyclif)
To make void, to annul; to refute (especially a contract).
*Spenser
*:How can these grants of the king's be avoided ?
(legal) To defeat or evade; to invalidate. Thus, in a replication, the plaintiff may deny the defendant's plea, or confess it, and avoid it by stating new matter.
:(Blackstone)
(obsolete) To emit or throw out; to void; as, to avoid excretions.
:(Sir Thomas Browne)
(obsolete) To leave, evacuate; to leave as empty, to withdraw or come away from.
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*:Anone they encountred to gyders / and he with the reed shelde smote hym soo hard that he bare hym ouer to the erthe / There with anone came another Knyght of the castel / and he was smyten so sore that he auoyded his fadel
*Francis Bacon
*:Six of us only stayed, and the rest avoided the room.
(obsolete) To get rid of.
:(Shakespeare)
(obsolete) To retire; to withdraw, depart, go away.
(obsolete) To become void or vacant.
In transitive terms the difference between curb and avoid
is that curb is to bend or curve while avoid is to keep away from; to keep clear of; to endeavor not to meet; to shun; to abstain from.As a noun curb
is a row of concrete along the edge of a road; a kerb (UK.curb
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Alternative forms
* kerb (British)Noun
(en noun)- By these men, religion, that should be / The curb , is made the spur of tyranny.
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- He that before ran in the pastures wild / Felt the stiff curb control his angry jaws.
Derived terms
* curb appeal * curb service * roof curbVerb
(en verb)- Where pinching want must curb thy warm desires.
- crooked and curbed lines
- Virtue itself of vice must pardon beg, / Yea, curb and woo for leave to do him good.
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