I. noun
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learning curve
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Everyone in the centre has been through a very steep learning curve they had to learn very quickly .
steep learning curve (= they had to learn very quickly )
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Everyone in the centre has been through a very steep learning curve .
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■ ADJECTIVE
aggregate
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In the extreme case where the aggregate supply curve is vertical, the increased money supply will simply lead to higher prices.
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The aggregate supply curve slope can be explained along rational expectations lines due to misperceptions of prices.
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The variable we are interested in here is the variable which has caused the shift in the aggregate demand curve .
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What is the shape of the aggregate supply curve ?
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Referring back to the aggregate supply curve derivation in Fig. 10-5, it is that is usually attributed to the Keynesians.
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This aggregate supply curve is of fundamental importance to the macroeconomic policy conclusions often drawn from the rational expectations hypothesis.
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Thus a rise in real government expenditure shifts the aggregate demand curve to the right.
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As noted above, there can be exceptions to the vertical aggregate supply curve when changes are unanticipated.
gentle
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The cures include starting the clubhead back low to the turf on a gentle curve .
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Long gentle curves as the asphalt clefts the wilderness.
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It was a two-storey white house nestling just within the last gentle curve up to the headland.
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The clubhead must start on a gentle curve low to the turf. 4.
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They were placed in a gentle curve , about twenty traps in all, facing the outgoing tide.
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The low sun touched the gentle white curves of the plateau with gold and bathed them in undeserved serenity.
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Cut away and down behind the bud in a gentle curve .
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Even such gentle curves require impressive magnets.
marginal
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But when the average cost curve is falling the marginal cost curve lies below average cost.
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This is reflected in the model by a declining marginal cost curve .
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Since there are no production externalities, this marginal private cost curve is also the marginal social cost curve.
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This will result in a downward displacement of the marginal cost curve from to.
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In turn this will move producers back down their marginal cost curves and alter the net-of-tax price producers require.
normal
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This is the Normal or Gaussian curve and represents the distribution of events due to chance.
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Our performance appraisal policy is clear: employee ratings have to conform to a normal bell curve .
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But, because of the statistical properties of the normal curve of distribution, they do have a large effect at the extremes.
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Exhibit 9. 1 shows the so-called normal yield curve , where long-term rates are higher than short-term rates.
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These grades have to conform to the normal curve of distribution.
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Chance variations have a natural spread across the normal curve as explained above, for practical purposes.
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The ordinate scaling is derived by dividing the area beneath a normal distribution curve into columnar segments of equal area.
smooth
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The yield curve is a smooth curve through those points.
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If the fish is suspended in open water with no obstacles around, the lines are smooth curves .
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The basic idea is that a few parameters are turned into a smooth curve by a standardised computation.
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The higher the resolution, the smoother the curves and the sharper the lines become.
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The more points you use, the smoother the curve will be.
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On a smooth curve , both the values and the slopes at neighbouring time points are close together.
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This is rather like being able to draw a straight line tangent at any point on a smooth curve .
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Where the septum meets the body wall it does so in a smooth curve .
steep
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That steep yield curve has turned into political temptation.
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Like many new ventures, ProTech has had a steep learning curve .
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But as the plane climbed in a steep curve above the Sussex countryside it was rocked by a sudden explosion.
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Steve Jobs had eliminated the crank of a steep learning curve , but replaced it with a new crank-insufficient memory and storage.
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With a steep L curve and a shallow I curve, the effect on aggregate demand will be much greater.
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Incoherence, ugliness, and a steep learning curve were indicators that a machine was powerful.
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Redraw the three diagrams of Figure 18.2 with a steeper L curve and a shallower I curve.
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These steep growth curves are set to continue.
■ NOUN
ball
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Some guys can hit a curve ball .
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Her professor had begun the course with an intellectual curve ball .
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About the time this outcry was gathering momentum, a curve ball landed like a left hook.
calibration
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When a sample with an unknown level of that element is analysed its concentration can be plotted on the calibration curve .
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A universal calibration curve is then obtained by plotting against V R for a given carrier solvent and a fixed temperature.
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This section then describes some validation parameters including accuracy and precision, random errors, calibration curves and noise.
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In converting radiocarbon results to calendar dates, the wiggles in the calibration curve are the real problem.
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Aggregating activity of the samples was measured over the linear portion of the calibration curve obtained with synthetic platelet activating factor.
cost
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But when the average cost curve is falling the marginal cost curve lies below average cost.
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The total cost curve increases at a decreasing rate over some range and then begins to increase at an increasing rate.
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But when the average cost curve is falling the marginal cost curve lies below average cost.
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Also, riskier firms will have cost curves that are higher to begin with.
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It is an average cost curve for citizens for a constant level of output.
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In particular, let the average cost curves for firms in one country lie everywhere below those in the other.
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In Figure 2.7 two alternative average cost curves are shown.
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This is reflected in the model by a declining marginal cost curve .
demand
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Problem of an unstable demand Accurate monetary control requires the authorities to be able to predict the demand curve for money.
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Graphically, the intersection of the supply curve and the demand curve for the product will indicate the equilibrium point.
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Unfortunately, the demand curve may shift unpredictably, making control very difficult.
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That is. factors which cause supply to shift are distinct from factors which shift the demand curve .
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Thus sign; the membership demand curve is negatively sloped for and positively sloped for, as shown in Fig. 1.
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A downsloping demand curve for the various resources.
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The variable we are interested in here is the variable which has caused the shift in the aggregate demand curve .
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Why does a demand curve slope downward?
experience
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The experience curve reflects the mix of all these forms of learning.
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How might knowledge of the experience curve be used strategically?
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These were calculated with both companies facing 75 percent experience curves and discount rates of 15 percent.
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This was due not only to economies of scale but also to what came to be known as the experience curve .
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Cost-leadership policies do not, therefore, depend for their success upon some crude belief in the experience curve .
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It is also worth bearing in mind that the experience curve does not apply only to single products.
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In such situations an assessment of the slope of the experience curve is vital in determining the likely profitability of new investments.
indifference
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Consider an indifference curve in space.
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For a competitive equilibrium, this line must be tangent to the individual's indifference curve .
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Three examples of such indifference curves are illustrated by and in Figure 6.4.
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Any such level of output will put the median voter on a higher indifference curve than would the reversion level.
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The equilibrium allocation for the median voter shifts from point E° on indifference curve I 1 to E 1 on I 2.
learning
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The human relationships are very intense and therefore the learning curve is accelerated.
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It is a profitable business but there is evidence of some slack time, perhaps this is a learning curve effect.
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No country can allow a government a learning curve and survive.
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But they also have a steep learning curve for the uninitiated, which is something to consider before taking the plunge.
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The problems are often more difficult but the learning curve is rapid.
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However, both will have started their long journey up the learning curve .
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Everyone in the Administration Centre has been through a very steep learning curve .
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Those who don't keep rolling on the learning curve get left way behind.
supply
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If, however, the authorities were to control interest rates, the supply curve might become downward sloping.
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Why does the supply curve slope upward?
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Banks will merely supply whatever is demanded: in this case the supply curve is the same as the demand curve.
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Graphically, the intersection of the supply curve and the demand curve for the product will indicate the equilibrium point.
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With the downward-sloping supply curve , higher interest rates lead to lower demand and lower supply.
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By polluting, that is, by creating spillover costs, the firm enjoys lower production costs and the supply curve 5.
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What is the shape of the aggregate supply curve ?
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This means that as firms leave an industry. the supply curve will shift to the left.
yield
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But the yield curve is abnormally steep.
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Since there are many different categories of debt issues, there are many different possible types of yield curves .
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The yield curve is a smooth curve through those points.
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Each category of debt will have its own yield curve relationships.
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The difference between short and long rates has produced a yield curve that has rarely been steeper.
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Exhibit 9. 1 shows the so-called normal yield curve , where long-term rates are higher than short-term rates.
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That steep yield curve has turned into political temptation.
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A positive yield curve represents the normal condition of the capital markets.
■ VERB
form
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You will gradually bring these needles back to working position to form the curve lower edge above the hem.
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Join the highest point of each strip with a chalk line to form a curve .
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Each curve of reduced modulus is shifted with respect to the curve at T o until all fit together forming one master curve.
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Draw a line with chalk to connect these points to form the top curve .
plot
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When a sample with an unknown level of that element is analysed its concentration can be plotted on the calibration curve .
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Companies often use details of education to plot out salary curves and promotion prospects.
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Data plotting above the standard curve were considered to represent uplifted Bunter Shale section.
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We therefore also plotted individual dose-response curves of log plasma gastrin against the basal-subtracted acid output.
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For your heading-tape quantity, you will need to plot the curve as below and double the measurement.
produce
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The difference between short and long rates has produced a yield curve that has rarely been steeper.
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This would produce exponential curves , which do not fit the data, particularly in the first 3 months after radiotherapy.
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This compensatory effect produces a steady power curve .
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Combinations of the two movements produce diagonals and curves .
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Restricting the data to the related papers listed in Table 9 does, however, produce a straight-line curve , Figure 13.
shift
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In other words, an increase in expected inflation of 5 percentage points shifts the Phillips curve upwards by 5 percentage points.
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An unfavorable change in consumer preferences will cause demand to decrease, shifting the curve to the left.
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Although changes in performance arise as a result of supply side factors, they manifest themselves as shifts in demand curve .
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That is. factors which cause supply to shift are distinct from factors which shift the demand curve .
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Thus a rise in real government expenditure shifts the aggregate demand curve to the right.
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An increase in supply shifts the curve to the right; a decrease in supply shifts it to the left.
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However this fall in the net wage also shifts the supply curves of labour from S1 to S2.
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Each curve of reduced modulus is shifted with respect to the curve at T o until all fit together forming one master curve.
show
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Two clear cases show that a curve fit can mislead.
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Partial melt values shown on curves .
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Plots a and c show only the curves for.
throw
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Just when you thought you had it all figured out, it threw you a curve like this.
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He expects to profit from the high strike mostly when he throws his overhand curve which breaks late into the strike zone.
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The flushing models have thrown a curve to geophysicists trying to work out how this cycle has come about.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
ahead of the game/curve
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Belmont city leaders have never been ahead of the curve in environmental matters.
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Businesses that want to stay ahead of the curve find trend research crucial.
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It just shows how desperate New Yorkers are to be ahead of the curve.
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Reagan was ahead of the curve in his sensible discussion of the economics of Social Security.
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The successful programs I know of in college football stay ahead of the game.
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Then again, some major thinkers are way ahead of the curve.
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This talk gave me another view of Mike-a little guy who had once been ahead of the game.
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Customers seem to like the car's curves and angles.
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From the balcony, you could see the long curve of the shoreline.
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He lost control of the car on a sharp curve .
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I rounded the curve looking for a place to pull over.
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Morgan was killed when he lost control of his car in a curve .
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Will was killed when he lost control of his car in a curve .
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A few follow gracefully some yards behind, dancing in ever-widening curves, waltzing in circles at the curbs.
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Above them were fields of blazing stars and on some of the curves Marge caught a glimpse of moonlight on rolling surf.
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He expects to profit from the high strike mostly when he throws his overhand curve which breaks late into the strike zone.
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Ileal motility was measured by integrating the area under the pressure-time curve , during 1 minute periods, using computer software.
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These subtle curves encourage air to flow under the board which gives extra lift and better acceleration.
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This means that as firms leave an industry. the supply curve will shift to the left.
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This time around, the computerisation curve has flattened out, so the electronics industry has been hit as hard as any.
II. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
around
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They stepped off the pavement outside and crossed over to another group of shops that curved around the square.
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His finger was tantalisingly curving around her mouth ... parting it ... and he was kissing her gently, almost without pressure.
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The heart chakra, for example, has been seen in terms of a river curving around a conical hill with a church.
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This occurred just after I took a turning and found myself on a road curving around the edge of a hill.
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The pews curved around in the new style.
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The route then curves around to head south towards Grizedale Tarn.
away
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His route curved away in a graceful sweep ahead of him.
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His mind kept curving away , the way a golf ball curves when it's sliced or hooked.
back
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So, we don't have to have one of our three-dimensional universe curved back on itself.
down
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With hands in sleeves, the old man looked extremely Oriental, long moustaches curving down from the upper lip.
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And the plant continues to bring the cost curves down .
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The corridor curved down and appeared to twist, as if heading back into the ground.
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He then ignored both of them, walking to the stairs that curved down into the room and taking the luggage up.
gently
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Here, Bruder has created a front which is gently curved in plan, and intended to attract visitors into the building.
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There, the palm-tree-lined beach curves gently around a wide bay.
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The beach here is spectacular, curving gently round the bay under a towering, wild headland.
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Start with arms outstretched and gently curve the body sideways.
round
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As it travels outwards, the fluid tends to curve round in the flow direction.
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From up here she could see where the village curved round to the Hotel Britannia.
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The river has curved round and Odd-Knut has drawn up a few metres from the edge of a very steep drop.
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Beside her, Luke stirred briefly, his hand curving round her waist to draw her closer, and unconsciously she stiffened.
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The road, curving round the sides of the hills, indulged in dizzying bends and steep gradients.
slightly
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The latest design has slightly curved jaws, so can be used more effectively on pipes.
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Rib chops are identified by the slightly curved rib bone and the presence of the rib-eye muscle outside of the curve.
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It was slightly curved at the end like a large claw.
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The adoral shields are curved slightly wing-like, with glassy beads embedded in the matrix.
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Her lips were curved slightly in a mild, private smile.
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The adoral shields are slightly curved large and occupying a large portion of the jaw proximal to the oral shield.
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Perhaps this is why straight lines do not suggest movement along their length as effectively as slightly curved ones.
then
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Start with arms outstretched then curve sideways, bringing the arm up and over as far as possible.
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The route then curves around to head south towards Grizedale Tarn.
up
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Inside the grounds the path continued, curving up between the overgrown rhododendrons in the direction of the house.
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Their gravitational attraction would thus curve up the universe to infinitely small size.
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Stairs of dark wood curved up from the hall, and the old treads creaked under their combined weight.
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The mattress - all curved up at the edges.
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However the groundsheet sides curve up well and my worries proved unfounded.
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A few miles further on, I took a left on to a B road which curved up even higher.
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Thick metal cables curved up from that helmet into the ducted roof as though the man had sprouted banded antlers.
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By curving up its abdomen it gives the false impression that it is about to strike with its tail.
■ NOUN
lip
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His lips didn't curve or pucker when he smiled.
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Her lips were curved slightly in a mild, private smile.
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They saw Ruth's crumpling face, and at once the lips curved upward, laughing, and sang louder.
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Gradually, reluctantly, his own lips curved , and then his eyes joined in, twinkling like glimmering black pools.
mouth
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At the thought of Penry she stretched, cat-like, her mouth curving in a dreamy smile.
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His mouth curved into a smile, but his face showed pain.
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Macready raised his stick, cruel mouth curving like a second scar, and a foot-long blade sprang out.
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The Duke was revelling in the occasion, his toothless mouth curved up in a great leer like the mask of comedy.
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And as this notion made his mouth curve upward in amusement at his optimism, he found what he was searching for.
road
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At one point the road suddenly curves and rises to the height of an eight-storey building.
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After ten minutes the road curved west and dipped down into a shallow ravine.
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A few miles further on, I took a left on to a B road which curved up even higher.
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This occurred just after I took a turning and found myself on a road curving around the edge of a hill.
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Where the road is curved away from the junction on both sides, very long and wide sight lines will be required.
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The road , curving round the sides of the hills, indulged in dizzying bends and steep gradients.
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The road curved , and I emerged from a copse to confront a splendid panorama.
smile
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At last his gaze came to rest on Maeve, and his eyes widened, and a smile curved his lips.
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A slight smile curved her mouth, relaxing the rigidity of her body.
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And felt the beginnings of a smile curve her lips.
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A smile curved her mouth, though, as she kicked off her shoes and went and lay down on her bed.
spine
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As they straighten, curve the spine and pull in the tummy, as if you have just received a blow.
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Ventral arm spins may be slightly flattened and in some the arm spine may be curved .
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Lying on your tummy, raise your head and shoulders, curving the spine , inch by inch.
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Slowly raise your head and shoulders, curving your spine , inch by inch, without straining.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a sandy beach curving gently around the bay
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Hurricane Gustav curved away from the Caribbean Islands and headed toward open ocean.
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The dusty white road curved away towards the mountains.
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The road curves to the left as you go up the hill.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A slight smile curved her mouth, relaxing the rigidity of her body.
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And then the Alouette was spinning like a top and curving off over the Aegean.