different between cambre vs camber

English

Noun

cambre (plural cambres)

1. Obsolete form of camber.
   • 1858, Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, page #613:

     To the southward of this is another entrance which opens into a port or cambre for boats and lumps, and then into a smaller basin?de?flot for the smaller steamers, and for the loading of lighters with provisions, &c.

2. Alternative spelling of cambré

Anagrams

• camber, cembra

French

Verb

cambre

1. first-person singular present indicative of cambrer
2. third-person singular present indicative of cambrer
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of cambrer
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of cambrer
5. second-person singular imperative of cambrer

Italian

Noun

cambre f

1. plural of cambra

Old French

Noun

cambre f (oblique plural cambres, nominative singular cambre, nominative plural cambres)

1. Alternative form of chambre

English

Alternative forms

• cambre (chiefly obsolete)

Etymology

From Old French cambre (“bent”), from Latin camurum, from camur (“arched”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?kæm.b?/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?kæm.b?/

Noun

camber (uncountable)

1. A slight convexity, arching or curvature of a surface of a road, beam, roof, ship's deck etc., so that liquids will flow off the sides.
   • 2004, Alan Hollinghurst, The Line of Beauty, Bloomsbury, 2005, Chapter 1

     From end to end, just behind the houses, ran the broad gravel walk, with its emphatic camber and its metal-edged gutters where a child's ball would come to rest and the first few plane leaves, dusty but still green, were already falling, since the summer had been so hot and rainless all through.

2. The slope of a curved road created to minimize the effect of centrifugal force.
3. (architecture) An upward concavity in the underside of a beam, girder, or lintel; also, a slight upward concavity in a straight arch.
4. (automotive) The alignment on the roll axis of the wheels of a road vehicle, where positive camber signifies that the wheels are closer together at the bottom than the top.
5. (aviation) The curvature of an airfoil.
6. (nautical) A small enclosed dock in which timber for masts (etc.) is kept to weather.

Translations

Verb

camber (third-person singular simple present cambers, present participle cambering, simple past and past participle cambered)

1. To curve upwards in the middle.
2. To adjust the camber of the wheels of a vehicle.

   Because he cambered the tires too much, he had less control on the turns.

Translations

Anagrams

• Cambre, cambre, cambré, cembra