(v. t.) To guide and manage, or restrain, as with a curb; to bend to one's will; to subject; to subdue; to restrain; to confine; to keep in check.
(v. t.) To furnish wich a curb, as a well; also, to restrain by a curb, as a bank of earth.
(v. i.) To bend; to crouch; to cringe.
(n.) That which curbs, restrains, or subdues; a check or hindrance; esp., a chain or strap attached to the upper part of the branches of a bit, and capable of being drawn tightly against the lower jaw of the horse.
(n.) An assemblage of three or more pieces of timber, or a metal member, forming a frame around an opening, and serving to maintain the integrity of that opening; also, a ring of stone serving a similar purpose, as at the eye of a dome.
(n.) A frame or wall round the mouth of a well; also, a frame within a well to prevent the earth caving in.
(n.) A curbstone.
(n.) A swelling on the back part of the hind leg of a horse, just behind the lowest part of the hock joint, generally causing lameness.
Example Sentences:
(1) Preemployment screening methods have been ineffective in predicting those at risk, and in curbing the impact of back problems in industry.
(2) Nick Nuttall, a spokesman for UNEP, said the latest findings should encourage more governments to follow moves by some politicians to invest billions of dollars in clean energy and efficiency as a way of curbing greenhouse gases.
(3) "I want to talk about Curb Your Enthusiasm instead, and the paintings of Chagall, the music of Amy Winehouse and Woody Allen films."
(4) If all households curbed their expenditures, total consumption would fall, and so, too, would demand for labour.
(5) But Frank argues the disastrous attempt at curbing markets through currency reform in 2009 has shown the cost of turning back from change.
(6) Most of the world's leading economies have set out pledges to curb their emissions, but these pledges fall far short of the action the IPCC has said is needed.
(7) Iran has vowed to retaliate against the ISA extension, passed unanimously on Thursday, saying it violated last year’s agreement with six major powers to curb its nuclear programme in return for lifting of international financial sanctions.
(8) The two men appear to be discussing Tusk's fallout with Cameron over the latter's proposals to curb access to benefits: "What the fuck are they on about with these benefits?"
(9) The debut of the film – before an audience of business journalists, film critics and a smattering of Wonga customers – comes before a grilling by MPs in Westminster on Tuesday as calls grow for tighter curbs on payday lenders.
(10) Even before the then Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher had put climate change on the international political map with a landmark speech in 1988, the company was doing ground-breaking work into photovoltaic solar panels, wave power and domestic energy efficiency as part of a wider drive to understand how greenhouse gas emissions could be curbed.
(11) More than 30 state and city legislatures, from Hawaii to New York, have discussed or proposed curbs on sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs) ranging from bans in schools to cuts in portion sizes and a sales tax.
(12) Also in the Lords amongst the phalanx of red leather benches is a solitary seat curbed by an armrest provided for a perpetually drunken Lord (hence the saying?)
(13) Curb them, now | Owen Jones Read more The inquiry followed findings by the education charity the Sutton Trust in 2016, which showed that the UK’s most high-profile jobs – from the entertainment industry to politics and journalism – were disproportionately populated by alumni of private schools and Oxbridge .
(14) He said the use of “overwhelming force” he witnessed was counterproductive and at odds with a new approach to policing football fans that had largely succeeded in curbing violence.
(15) The factors responsible for curbing the infection have not yet been specifically defined.
(16) An equimolar mixture of D-glucose and 3-OMG (5.55 mM each) was more effective than 11.1 mM D-glucose or 3-OMG alone in curbing hexose transport or reversing hexose starvation induced increases in transport.
(17) In Brusselson Tuesday, there was talk of imposing restrictions on capital movements from Russia and of curbs on exports of defence and energy technology.
(18) Opponents of action to curb climate change have cited the pause as a reason to reject urgent cuts in carbon emissions.
(19) A system of identity checks for all, including British citizens, would have to be introduced to enforce the government's moves to curb access for illegal migrants to privately rented housing and to tackle alleged health tourists, leading immigration lawyers have told the home secretary.
(20) Despite a cramping, high-concept production set in a psychiatric ward, Richardson gave us a Richard resembling a monstrous child whose ravening will had yet to be curbed by social custom.
Curvy
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Nobody would be able to tell, because while I’m certainly not fat, I’m quite curvy with a big bottom and I really don’t look as if I have an eating disorder.
(2) It’s not about a token nod to curvy girls …”, Cosmo ‘s editor, Bronwyn McCahon, explains in her campaign launch letter : “Showcasing body diversity at both ends of the spectrum has become part of Cosmo’s DNA.
(3) You’ll probably get a clothes chain asking you to design a range for “curvy” women … I got some free clothing in Australia – that was amazing.
(4) For example, Klein recently told a clothing store clerk she’d just had a baby even though her son was already more than a year old because nothing in the boutique fit her curvy body.
(5) Barbie finally becomes a real girl – with more realistic figure and skin colours Read more Barbie has released three new Barbie body shapes: tall, curvy and petite.
(6) Have curvy women only appeared in the past five years?
(7) By controlling confounding effects due to redundancy, the possibility that the outcomes might be related to the balance of linear and curvi-linear target features was strengthened.
(8) Once they decide what type of measurement best fits their customer (straight bodied, curvy, etc) they hire a fit model, who is usually a size four or six to fit the sample on.
(9) Photograph: Barbie After a survey on the fashion desk, we have decided that we particularly like the vibe of Everyday Chic Curvy Barbie, who has boldly teamed distressed cropped jeans with lace-up black brogues.
(10) These opposing actions are in competition at different dose levels of thyroxine, and may contribute not only to augmentation or suppression of thyrotrophin, but also to the curvi-linear pattern of fall.
(11) Overall, Lululemon's good profits close out a bad year for curvy women.
(12) It looks like a modernist sculpture, but the curvy abstract forms are functional, housing terraces-cum-lookouts with dramatic views of the coastline.
(13) She said: “I’m pretty lucky that I only get comments like this occasionally but I have many curvy blogger friends who have this happen all the time, either publicly or by email, so I hear about it very frequently.” And she says the sewing blogger community is generally very body positive.
(14) Now girls can finally see themselves reflected in the toys, can imagine their own beautiful brown eyed, blue haired, curvy, stylish selves sitting in the Ferrari and pulling up next to their dream home in a climate where many women are being more mindful of what imagery they pass on to their daughters, and rejecting the kind of beauty that Barbie has come to represent and “reflect”.
(15) Ring or curvi-linear calcification in not a reliable sign of a cyst.
(16) Calcified cyst walls appear as fine, even, curvi-linear lines, Dense, irregular and extensive calcification indicates a solid tumour.
(17) Brown skin, brown eyes, full lips, curvy waist and that different shaped nose.
(18) Both cholesterol and phospholipid outputs were coupled to biliary bile salt output in a curvi-linear relationship which could be fitted by rectangular hyperbolae, in the animals fed with different plant steroids.
(19) Hers is not a label specifically aimed at curvy or plus-sized women, but at all women.
(20) What about – dare I say it – women who are both short and curvy?