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Word Meanings - RECURVE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To curve in an opposite or unusual direction; to bend back or down.

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  • RECURVE
    To curve in an opposite or unusual direction; to bend back or down.
  • DIVERTING
    Amusing; entertaining. -- Di*vert"ing*ly, adv. -- Di*vert"ing*ness, n.
  • DIVERTISSEMENT
    A short ballet, or other entertainment, between the acts of a play. Smart.
  • DIVERTIMENTO
    ) A light and pleasing composition.
  • DEFLECTABLE
    Capable of being deflected.
  • DEFLECTOR
    That which deflects, as a diaphragm in a furnace, or a come in a lamp .
  • DIVERGE
    Etym: 1. To extend from a common point in different directions; to tend from one point and recede from each other; to tend to spread apart; to turn aside or deviate ; -- opposed to converge; as, rays of light diverge as they proceed from the sun.
  • DIVERTISE
    To divert; to entertain. Dryden.
  • DEFLECTIONIZE
    To free from inflections. Deflectionized languages are said to be analytic. Earle.
  • DIVERGEMENT
    Divergence.
  • DIVERTICLE
    A diverticulum. (more info) 1. A turning; a byway; a bypath. Hales.
  • SWERVE
    OFries. swerva to creep, D. zwerven to swerve, to rope, OS. swerban to wipe off, MHG. swerben to be whirled, OHG. swerban to wipe off, Icel. sverfa to file, Goth. swaírban to wipe, and perhaps 1. To stray; to wander; to rope. A maid thitherward
  • DIVERTIVE
    Tending to divert; diverting; amusing; interesting. Things of a pleasant and divertive nature. Rogers.
  • DIVERTIBLE
    Capable of being diverted.
  • DIVERTISEMENT
    Diversion; amusement; recreation.
  • DEFLECT
    To cause to turn aside; to bend; as, rays of light are often deflected. Sitting with their knees deflected under them. Lord .
  • RECURVED
    Curved in an opposite or uncommon direction; bent back; as, a bird with a recurved bill; flowers with recurved petals.
  • DIVERTICULUM
    A blind tube branching out of a longer one.
  • DIVERTER
    One who, or that which, diverts, turns off, or pleases.
  • DIVERGENT
    Causing divergence of rays; as, a divergent lens. 3. Fig.: Disagreeing from something given; differing; as, a divergent statement. Divergent series. See Diverging series, under Diverging. (more info) 1. Receding farther and farther from each
  • INDIVERTIBLE
    Not to be diverted or turned aside. Lamb.
  • DIVERT
    turn aside; di- = dis- + vertere to turn. See Verse, and cf. 1. To turn aside; to turn off from any course or intended application; to deflect; as, to divert a river from its channel; to divert commerce from its usual course. That crude apple that
  • BEDSWERVER
    One who swerves from and is unfaithful to the marriage vow. Shak.
  • DEVIATE
    To go out of the way; to turn aside from a course or a method; to stray or go astray; to err; to digress; to diverge; to vary. Thus Pegasus, a nearer way to take, May boldly deviate from the common track. Pope. Syn. -- To swerve; stray; wander;

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