English-Dutch translations for curve

• curve
  Er is niet langer sprake van een curve, maar van een vrije val. This is no longer a curved line: it is free fall.
  Wij moeten de curve voor blijven, niet erachteraan lopen, dus wij zullen dit zo snel mogelijk doen! We need to be ahead of the curve, not behind the curve, so as soon as possible it shall be!
  Het welzijn van mensen kan niet eenvoudigweg worden uitgedrukt in een indicator of een curve. People's well-being cannot simply be expressed as an index or a curve.
• afbuigen
• bocht
• buigen
  Snelle inspanningen zijn noodzakelijk om de mondiale emissiecurve voldoende snel om te kunnen buigen. Rapid action is required to enable us to change the Earth's emissions curve to a downwards trend quickly.
• figuur
• kromme
  De vragen gaan eerder over kromme komkommers, pruimtabak en andere alledaagse zaken. The questions instead tend to concern curved cucumbers, snuff and other everyday matters.
  Ten aanzien van de kwaliteitsnormen waarover al veel is gezegd, kan ik zeggen dat ik de discussie in de pers ken en op de hoogte ben van de discussie over de kromme komkommers. With regard to quality standards, about which much has already been said, I am aware of the discussion in the press and also the talk about curved cucumbers.
• krommen
• kromming
• kromte
• plooien
• rondingen

Definition of curve

• Bent without angles; crooked; curved
• A gentle bend, such as in a road
• A simple figure containing no straight portions and no angles; a curved line
• A grading system based on the scale of performance of a group used to normalize a right-skewed grade distribution into a bell curve, so that more can receive higher grades, regardless of their actual knowledge of the subject
• A continuous map from a one-dimensional space to a multidimensional space
• An algebraic curve; a polynomial relation of the planar coordinates
• The attractive shape of a woman's body
• To bend; to crook
• To cause to swerve from a straight course
• To bend or turn gradually from a given direction
• To grade on a curve (bell curve of a normal distribution
• To reject, to turn down romantic advances

Examples

• a curve line
• a curve surface
• You should slow down when approaching a curve
• She scribbled a curve on the paper
• The teacher was nice and graded the test on a curve
• to curve a line
• to curve a pipe
• to curve a ball in pitching it
• the road curves to the right
• The teacher will curve the test
• I was once curved three times by the same woman

Related words

• curved
• recurve
• curveball
• curvet
• incurve
• curve bend over
• Curve of Spee
• Curve of Wilson
• curve sketching