(a.) Bent without angles; crooked; curved; as, a curve line; a curve surface.
(a.) A bending without angles; that which is bent; a flexure; as, a curve in a railway or canal.
(a.) A line described according to some low, and having no finite portion of it a straight line.
(a.) To bend; to crook; as, to curve a line; to curve a pipe; to cause to swerve from a straight course; as, to curve a ball in pitching it.
(v. i.) To bend or turn gradually from a given direction; as, the road curves to the right.
Example Sentences:
(1) As a consequence, similar response curves were obtained for urine specimens containing morphine or barbiturates.
(2) When the data correlating DHT with protein synthesis using both labelling techniques were combined, the curves were parallel and a strong correlation was noted between DHT and protein synthesis over a wide range of values (P less than 0.001).
(3) These observations were confirmed by the killing curves in pooled serum obtained at peak and trough levels.
(4) However, there was no statistically significant difference in mean areas under the LH and FSH curves in the GnRH-treated groups.
(5) Regression curves indicate that although all three types of pulmonary edema can be characterized by slightly different slopes, the differences are statistically insignificant.
(6) In the cannulated group, significant decreases (P less than 0.05) in the area under the elimination curve (AUC), the volume of distribution at steady-state (Vdss) and the mean residence time (MRT) were observed.
(7) The reproducibility of the killing-curve method suggests that at least two different concentrations should be used and that a decrease in viable counts below 2 log10 after 24 hours does not exclude a synergistic action.
(8) The curve of mitoses peaked at the same time as that of TK activity but was only 68% as extensive.
(9) The effect of these drugs was estimated from the cell growth curve and DNA histogram determined by flow cytometry.
(10) However, there was not a relationship between the contraction curve of the gallbladder and the bile flow into the duodenum.
(11) The total "dose" to the tissue of individual metabolites was determined by the area under the curve (AUC).
(12) However, those studies used partial maximal expiratory flow volume (PMEFV) curves to assess lung function.
(13) Blood gas variables produced from a computed in vivo oxygen dissociation curve, PaeO2, P95 and C(a-x)O2, were introduced in the University Hospital of Wales in 1986.
(14) They were more irregularly curved and consisted of various substances.
(15) The duration of action correlated with the elimination half-life of the drug (r = 0.87; P less than 0.003) and area under the plasma concentration curve (r = 0.72; P less than 0.03).
(16) The slope of the thermal inactivation curve of enterotoxin A in beef bouillon (initial pH 6.2) was found to be approximately 27.8 C (50 F) with three different concentrations of toxin.
(17) A relatively new method of estimating that date and constructing a corresponding Kaplan Meier curve is presented.
(18) To know the relation between the signal intensity and sodium concentration, sodium concentration--signal intensity curve was obtained using phantoms with various sodium concentrations (0.05-1.0%).
(19) In testing the contribution of the long, curved stem to the torsional stability of uncemented prostheses by comparing it with other stems, the long, curved stem was the most stable, followed by a shorter straight stem, and a short, proximally curved stem.
(20) After using the OK method to obtain a distance curve for height, we introduce a new method (VADK) to derive velocity and acceleration curves from the fitted distance curve.
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?