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Sinker vs Curve - What's the difference?

sinker | curve |

As nouns the difference between sinker and curve

is that sinker is a weight used in fishing to cause the line or net to sink while curve is a gentle bend, such as in a road.

As an adjective curve is

bent without angles; crooked; curved.

As a verb curve is

to bend; to crook.

sinker

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (fishing) A weight used in fishing to cause the line or net to sink
    • Hook the sinker onto this loop.
  • (baseball) Any of several high speed pitches that have a downward motion near the plate; a two-seam fastball, a split-finger fastball, or a forkball
    • His sinkers drew one ground ball after another.
  • (construction) Sinker nail, used for framing in current construction.
  • (slang) A doughnut; a biscuit.
  • * 1926 , Edna Ferber, Show Boat: A Novel , page 268
    • Of the fifty cents, ten went for the glassy shoeshine; twenty-five for a boutonniere; ten for coffee and sinkers at the Cockeyed Bakery.
  • * 2001 , Gerald J. Prokopowicz, All for the Regiment: The Army of the Ohio, 1861-1862 , page 148
    • they improvised by opening a barrel of flour and letting each man dump in a quart of water (if he had one) and scoop out a handful of dough to bake into rock-hard sinkers .
  • * 2003 , William W. Johnstone, Ambush Of The Mountain Man , page 168
    • "Gonna have to dip them sinkers in coffee to get 'em soft enough to chew," Jason Biggs said, grinning.
  • In knitting machines, one of the thin plates, blades, or other devices, that depress the loops upon or between the needles.

    • See also

    * (baseball pitches) curveball, slider, cut fastball, two-seam fastball, split-finger fastball, screwball, knuckleball

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    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.