adj bent without angles; crooked; curved; as, a curve line; a curve surface.
2. curve ·vi to bend or turn gradually from a given direction; as, the road curves to the right.
3. curve ·adj a bending without angles; that which is bent; a flexure; as, a curve in a railway or canal.
4. curve ·adj a line described according to some low, and having no finite portion of it a straight line.
5. curve ·adj 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.