CURVING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does curving mean? 

• CURVING (adjective)
  The adjective CURVING has 1 sense:

1. having or marked by a curve or smoothly rounded bend

  Familiarity information: CURVING used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CURVING (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Having or marked by a curve or smoothly rounded bend

Synonyms:

curved; curving

Context example:

his curved lips suggested a smile but his eyes were hard

Similar:

arced; arched; arching; arciform; arcuate; bowed (forming or resembling an arch)

curvilineal; curvilinear (characterized by or following a curved line)

eellike (resembling an eel in being long and thin and sinuous)

falcate; falciform; sickle-shaped (curved like a sickle)

curvey; curvy (having curves)

flexuous (having turns or windings)

hooked; hooklike (having or resembling a hook (especially in the ability to grasp and hold))

incurvate; incurved (bent into or having an inward curve)

recurvate; recurved (curved backward or inward)

semicircular (curved into a half circle)

serpentine; snakelike; snaky (resembling a serpent in form)

sinuate; sinuous; wiggly (curved or curving in and out)

sinusoidal (having a succession of waves or curves)

upcurved (curving upward)

 Context examples 

The image features many long, curving and linear fractures in the moon's bright ice shell.

(NASA Issues 'Remastered' View of Jupiter's Moon Europa, NASA)

It was impossible, from that position, to see the fall, but I could see the curving path which winds over the shoulder of the hill and leads to it.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The hair was peculiar, plastered down in front in a long, curving wisp over his massive forehead.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The house was a fair-sized one, standing back from the road, with a curving drive which was banked with high evergreen shrubs.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Below, was the heavy jowl of the sensualist curving in a broad crease over his cravat.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Between the two an open glade stretched, silvered in the moonshine, with the river curving across the lower end of it.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Its lower jaw extends beyond its upper one, curving upward.

(Boxer, NCI Thesaurus)

The paw, with rigid claws curving like talons, shot under the tender belly and came back with a swift ripping movement.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Here, in a clearing upon the green slope of a hill, stood a long, low, stone house, approached by a curving drive running through the fields.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Specific symptoms include: • Difficulty walking • Muscle weakness • Speech problems • Involuntary eye movements • Scoliosis (curving of the spine to one side) • Heart palpitations, from the heart disease which can happen along with Friedreich's ataxia

(Friedreich's Ataxia, NIH: National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke)