English vs curve

English

adj
  • English-language; of or pertaining to the language, descended from Anglo-Saxon, which developed in England. 

  • Of or pertaining to England. 

  • Of or pertaining to the people of England (to Englishmen and Englishwomen). 

  • Of or pertaining to the avoirdupois system of measure. 

  • Denoting a vertical orientation of the barn doors. 

  • Non-Amish, so named for speaking English rather than a variety of German. 

noun
  • Facility with the English language, ability to employ English correctly and idiomatically. 

  • The people of England, Englishmen and Englishwomen. 

  • Spin or sidespin given to a ball, especially in pool or billiards. 

  • A clear and readily understandable expression of some idea in English. 

  • The English term or expression for some thing or idea. 

  • The non-Amish, people outside the Amish faith and community. 

  • The English text or phrasing of some spoken or written communication. 

  • Synonym of language arts, the class dedicated to improving primary and secondary school students' mastery of English and the material taught in such classes. 

name
  • A town, the county seat of Crawford County, Indiana; named for Indiana statesman William Hayden English. 

  • A variety, dialect, or idiolect of spoken and or written English. 

  • The language originating in England but now spoken in all parts of the British Isles, the Commonwealth of Nations, North America, and other parts of the world. 

  • A male or female given name 

  • English language, literature, composition as a subject of study 

  • An English surname originally denoting a non-Celtic or non-Danish person in Britain. 

curve

noun
  • 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. 

  • An algebraic curve; a polynomial relation of the planar coordinates. 

  • A one-dimensional figure of non-zero length; the graph of a continuous map from a one-dimensional space. 

  • A one-dimensional continuum. 

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

  • A gentle bend, such as in a road. 

  • The attractive shape of a woman's body. 

  • A continuous map from a one-dimensional space to a multidimensional space. 

verb
  • To bend; to crook. 

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

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

  • To bend or turn gradually from a given direction. 

  • To cause to swerve from a straight course. 

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