English words for 'The condition of being benthivorous'
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adv
verb
noun
- a circular segment of a curve
- a long staff with one end being hook shaped
- someone who has committed a crime or has been legally convicted of a crime
- A bent or curved part; a curving piece or portion (of anything).
- A bishop's standard staff of office.
- A bending of the knee; a genuflection.
- A specialized staff with a semi-circular bend (a "hook") at one end used by shepherds to control their herds.
- A pothook.
- An artifice; a trick; a contrivance.
- A person who steals, lies, cheats or does other dishonest or illegal things; a criminal.
- A bend; turn; curve; curvature; a flexure.
- (music) A small tube, usually curved, applied to a trumpet, horn, etc., to change its pitch or key.
adj
verb
- bend or cause to bend
- extend in curves and turns
- form an arch or curve
- form a curl, curve, or kink
- turn sharply; change direction abruptly
- (transitive) To bend; to crook.
- (transitive) To grade on a curve (bell curve of a normal distribution).
- (intransitive) To bend or turn gradually from a given direction.
- (transitive) To cause to swerve from a straight course.
- (transitive, slang) To reject, to turn down romantic advances.
noun
- a pitch of a baseball that is thrown with spin so that its path curves as it approaches the batter
- curved segment (of a road or river or railroad track etc.)
- a line on a graph representing data
- the trace of a point whose direction of motion changes
- the property possessed by the curving of a line or surface
- (informal, usually in the plural) The attractive shape of a woman's body.
- (algebraic geometry) An algebraic curve; a polynomial relation of the planar coordinates.
- (analytic geometry) A continuous map from a one-dimensional space to a multidimensional space.
- (topology) A one-dimensional continuum.
- (geometry) A one-dimensional figure of non-zero length; the graph of a continuous map from a one-dimensional space.
- A gentle bend, such as in a road.
- A simple figure containing no straight portions and no angles; a curved line.
- (nonstandard, by extension) A grading system where all raw scores are raised by a set amount of points.
- 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.
noun
- the condition of being varied
- the act of introducing variety (especially in investments or in the variety of goods and services offered)
- The act, or the result, of diversifying.
- A corporate strategy in which a company acquires or establishes a business other than that of its current product.
- (finance) An investment strategy involving investing in a range of assets with differing features in order to reduce specific risk.
noun
- the condition of being varied
- the act of introducing variety (especially in investments or in the variety of goods and services offered)
- The act, or the result, of diversifying.
- A corporate strategy in which a company acquires or establishes a business other than that of its current product.
- (finance) An investment strategy involving investing in a range of assets with differing features in order to reduce specific risk.
verb
noun
- a circular segment of a curve
- a long staff with one end being hook shaped
- someone who has committed a crime or has been legally convicted of a crime
- A bent or curved part; a curving piece or portion (of anything).
- A bishop's standard staff of office.
- A bending of the knee; a genuflection.
- A specialized staff with a semi-circular bend (a "hook") at one end used by shepherds to control their herds.
- A pothook.
- An artifice; a trick; a contrivance.
- A person who steals, lies, cheats or does other dishonest or illegal things; a criminal.
- A bend; turn; curve; curvature; a flexure.
- (music) A small tube, usually curved, applied to a trumpet, horn, etc., to change its pitch or key.
adj
verb
- bend or cause to bend
- extend in curves and turns
- form an arch or curve
- form a curl, curve, or kink
- turn sharply; change direction abruptly
- (transitive) To bend; to crook.
- (transitive) To grade on a curve (bell curve of a normal distribution).
- (intransitive) To bend or turn gradually from a given direction.
- (transitive) To cause to swerve from a straight course.
- (transitive, slang) To reject, to turn down romantic advances.
noun
- a pitch of a baseball that is thrown with spin so that its path curves as it approaches the batter
- curved segment (of a road or river or railroad track etc.)
- a line on a graph representing data
- the trace of a point whose direction of motion changes
- the property possessed by the curving of a line or surface
- (informal, usually in the plural) The attractive shape of a woman's body.
- (algebraic geometry) An algebraic curve; a polynomial relation of the planar coordinates.
- (analytic geometry) A continuous map from a one-dimensional space to a multidimensional space.
- (topology) A one-dimensional continuum.
- (geometry) A one-dimensional figure of non-zero length; the graph of a continuous map from a one-dimensional space.
- A gentle bend, such as in a road.
- A simple figure containing no straight portions and no angles; a curved line.
- (nonstandard, by extension) A grading system where all raw scores are raised by a set amount of points.
- 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.