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Curve vs Swerve - What's the difference?

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As verbs the difference between curve and swerve

is that curve is to bend; to crook while swerve is to stray; to wander; to rove.

As an adjective curve

is bent without angles; crooked; curved.

As a noun curve

is a gentle bend, such as in a road.

curve

English

Adjective

  • (obsolete) Bent without angles; crooked; curved.
    • a curve line
    a curve surface

    Noun

    (wikipedia curve) (en noun)
  • A gentle bend, such as in a road.
    • You should slow down when approaching a curve .
  • A simple figure containing no straight portions and no angles; a curved line.
    • She scribbled a curve on the paper.
  • A grading system based on the scale of performance of a group used to normalize a right-skewed grade distribution (with more lower scores) into a bell curve, so that more can receive higher grades, regardless of their actual knowledge of the subject.
    • The teacher was nice and graded the test on a curve
  • (analytic geometry) A continuous map from a one-dimensional space to a multidimensional space.
  • (geometry) A one-dimensional figure of non-zero length; the graph of a continuous map from a one-dimensional space.
  • (algebraic geometry) An algebraic curve; a polynomial relation of the planar coordinates.
  • (topology) A one-dimensional continuum.
  • (informal, usually in plural) The attractive shape of a woman's body.

    • Derived terms

    * algebraic curve * * closed curve * cosine curve * curvaceous * curvy * dragon curve * elliptic curve * learning curve * Lissajous curve * Jordan curve * multicurve * nonsimple curve * open curve * pedal curve * plane curve * pursuit curve * simple curve * sine curve * space curve * spherical curve

    Verb

    (curv)
  • To bend; to crook.
    • to curve a line
    to curve a pipe
  • To cause to swerve from a straight course.
    • to curve a ball in pitching it
  • To bend or turn gradually from a given direction.
    • the road curves to the right
  • To grade on a curve (bell curve of a normal distribution).
    • The teacher will curve the test.

    swerve

    English

    Verb

    (swerv)
  • To stray; to wander; to rove.
  • * Sir Philip Sidney
    • A maid thitherward did run, / To catch her sparrow which from her did swerve .
  • To go out of a straight line; to deflect.
  • * Sir Philip Sidney
    • The point [of the sword] swerved .
  • To wander from any line prescribed, or from a rule or duty; to depart from what is established by law, duty, custom, or the like; to deviate.
  • * Book of Common Prayer
    • I swerve not from thy commandments.
  • * Clarendon
    • They swerve from the strict letter of the law.
  • * Atterbury
    • many who, through the contagion of evil example, swerve exceedingly from the rules of their holy religion
  • To bend; to incline.
  • * Milton
    • The battle swerved .
  • To climb or move upward by winding or turning.
  • * Dryden
    • The tree was high; / Yet nimbly up from bough to bough I swerved .
  • To turn aside or deviate to avoid impact.
  • of a projectile, to travel in a curved line
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2011 , date=January 8 , author=Chris Bevan , title=Arsenal 1 - 1 Leeds , work=BBC citation , page= , passage=Snodgrass also saw a free-kick swerve just wide before Arsenal, with Walcott and Fabregas by now off the bench, turned their vastly superior possession into chances in the closing moments}}

    Related terms

    * swarf