different between sinker vs curve

English

Etymology

sink +? -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?s??k?(?)/
• Rhymes: -??k?(?)

Noun

sinker (plural sinkers)

1. One who sinks something.
   • 1999, David Frank, J.B. McLachlan: A Biography

     McLachlan's value as a coal miner was enhanced by the specialized skill he learned as a shaft-sinker.

2. (fishing) A weight used in fishing to cause the line or net to sink.

   Hook the sinker onto this loop.

3. (baseball) Any of several high speed pitches that have a downward motion near the plate; a two-seam fastball, a split-finger fastball, or a forkball.

   His sinkers drew one ground ball after another.

4. (construction) Sinker nail, used for framing in current construction.
5. (slang) A doughnut; a biscuit.
   • 1926, Edna Ferber, Show Boat: A Novel, page 268

     Of the fifty cents, ten went for the glassy shoeshine; twenty-five for a boutonniere; ten for coffee and sinkers at the Cockeyed Bakery.

   • 2001, Gerald J. Prokopowicz, All for the Regiment: The Army of the Ohio, 1861-1862, page 148

     they improvised by opening a barrel of flour and letting each man dump in a quart of water (if he had one) and scoop out a handful of dough to bake into rock-hard sinkers.

   • 2003, William W. Johnstone, Ambush Of The Mountain Man, page 168

     "Gonna have to dip them sinkers in coffee to get 'em soft enough to chew," Jason Biggs said, grinning.

6. In knitting machines, one of the thin plates, blades, or other devices, that depress the loops upon or between the needles.

Translations

See also

• (baseball pitches): curveball, slider, cut fastball, two-seam fastball, split-finger fastball, screwball, knuckleball

Anagrams

• Ikners, Kerins, Kiners, Kinser, Kisner, Kreins, Kriens, Rinkes, Serkin, inkers, reinks, reskin

Spanish

Noun

sinker m (plural sinkers or sinker)

1. (baseball) sinker

English

Etymology

From Latin curvus (“bent, curved”). Doublet of curb.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /k??v/, [?k???v]
• (General American) IPA^(key): /k?v/, [?k??v]
• Rhymes: -??(?)v

Adjective

curve

1. (obsolete) Bent without angles; crooked; curved.

Translations

Noun

curve (plural curves)

1. A gentle bend, such as in a road.

2. A simple figure containing no straight portions and no angles; a curved line.

3. A grading system based on the scale of performance of a group used to normalize a right-skewed grade distribution (with more lower scores) into a bell curve, so that more can receive higher grades, regardless of their actual knowledge of the subject.

4. (analytic geometry) A continuous map from a one-dimensional space to a multidimensional space.
5. (geometry) A one-dimensional figure of non-zero length; the graph of a continuous map from a one-dimensional space.
6. (algebraic geometry) An algebraic curve; a polynomial relation of the planar coordinates.
7. (topology) A one-dimensional continuum.
8. (informal, usually in the plural) The attractive shape of a woman's body.

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

curve (third-person singular simple present curves, present participle curving, simple past and past participle curved)

1. (transitive) To bend; to crook.

2. (transitive) To cause to swerve from a straight course.

3. (intransitive) To bend or turn gradually from a given direction.

4. (transitive) To grade on a curve (bell curve of a normal distribution).

5. (transitive) (slang) To reject, to turn down romantic advances.

Translations

Anagrams

• cruve

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin curvus (“bent, curved”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?k?r.v?/
• Hyphenation: cur?ve

Noun

curve f (plural curven or curves, diminutive curvetje n)

1. curve: curved line

   Synonym: kromme

Derived terms

Italian

Adjective

curve

1. feminine plural of curvo

Noun

curve f

1. plural of curva

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?kur.u?e/, [?k?ru??]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?kur.ve/, [?kurv?]

Adjective

curve

1. vocative masculine singular of curvus

Portuguese

Verb

curve

1. first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of curvar
2. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of curvar
3. third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of curvar
4. third-person singular (você) negative imperative of curvar

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?kurve]

Noun

curve f

1. plural of curv?

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ku?be/, [?ku?.??e]

Verb

curve

1. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of curvar.
2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of curvar.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of curvar.