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Curb vs Roadside - What's the difference?

curb | roadside |

As nouns the difference between curb and roadside

is that curb is a row of concrete along the edge of a road; a kerb (UK while roadside is the area on either side of a road.

As a verb curb

is to check, restrain or control.

As an adjective roadside is

located next to (beside) a road.

curb

English

Alternative forms

* kerb (British)

Noun

(en noun)
  • (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
    • By these men, religion, that should be / The curb , is made the spur of tyranny.
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2012 , date=April 19 , author=Josh Halliday , title=Free speech haven or lawless cesspool – can the internet be civilised? , work=the Guardian citation , page= , passage=She maintains that the internet should face similar curbs to TV because young people are increasingly living online. "It's totally different, someone at Google watching the video from the comfort of their office in San Francisco to someone from a council house in London, where this video is happening right outside their front door."}}
  • 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
    • He that before ran in the pastures wild / Felt the stiff curb control his angry jaws.
  • (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.

    • Derived terms

    * curb appeal * curb service * roof curb

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To check, restrain or control.
  • * "Curb your dog."
  • * Prior
    • Where pinching want must curb thy warm desires.
  • 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
    • crooked and curbed lines
  • To crouch; to cringe.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Virtue itself of vice must pardon beg, / Yea, curb and woo for leave to do him good.

    Related terms

    * curvaceous * curvature * curve * curvy

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    roadside

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Located next to (beside) a road.
  • :The roadside stand did a good business just selling products to people who merely wanted directions.
  • * 2013 , Nicholas Watt and Nick Hopkins, Afghanistan bomb: UK to 'look carefully' at use of vehicles'' (in ''The Guardian , 1 May 2013)[http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/may/01/afghanistan-bombs-look-vehicles]
    • David Cameron has said the government will "look carefully" at the use of heavily armoured vehicles after three British soldiers were killed in Afghanistan by a roadside bomb while travelling in a Mastiff troop carrier.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The area on either side of a road.
  • :I pulled over to the roadside to check the map.

    • Derived terms

    *roadside hawk