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Tortuous vs Curving - What's the difference?

tortuous | curving |

As adjectives the difference between tortuous and curving

is that tortuous is twisted; having many turns; convoluted while curving is that curves or curve.

As a verb curving is

present participle of lang=en.

As a noun curving is

the action of the verb to curve.

tortuous

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Twisted; having many turns; convoluted.
  • * 2007 October 6, “Slogging on the Home Front”, editorial in ,
    • It still takes almost half a year for the average veteran’s claim for disability benefits to be decided in a tortuous process that can involve four separate hearings.
  • * Macaulay
    • The badger made his dark and tortuous hole on the side of every hill where the copsewood grew thick.
  • (obsolete) injurious; tortious
  • (astrology) oblique; applied to the six signs of the zodiac (from Capricorn to Gemini) that ascend most rapidly and obliquely
  • * Skeat
    • Infortunate ascendent tortuous .

    Usage notes

    * This term has strongly negative connotations, perhaps transferred from the similar-sounding adjective torturous . * Not to be confused with the legal term tortious .

    curving

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The action of the verb to curve .

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • That curves or curve.
    • a curving path