[
  {
    "word": "curve",
    "phonetic": "/k\u025c\u02d0v/",
    "phonetics": [
      {
        "text": "/k\u025c\u02d0v/",
        "audio": ""
      },
      {
        "text": "/k\u025dv/",
        "audio": "https://api.dictionaryapi.dev/media/pronunciations/en/curve-us.mp3",
        "sourceUrl": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=840692",
        "license": {
          "name": "BY-SA 3.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0"
        }
      }
    ],
    "meanings": [
      {
        "partOfSpeech": "noun",
        "definitions": [
          {
            "definition": "A gentle bend, such as in a road.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": [],
            "example": "You should slow down when approaching a curve."
          },
          {
            "definition": "A simple figure containing no straight portions and no angles; a curved line.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": [],
            "example": "She scribbled a curve on the paper."
          },
          {
            "definition": "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.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": [],
            "example": "The teacher was nice and graded the test on a curve."
          },
          {
            "definition": "A continuous map from a one-dimensional space to a multidimensional space.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "A one-dimensional figure of non-zero length; the graph of a continuous map from a one-dimensional space.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "An algebraic curve; a polynomial relation of the planar coordinates.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "A one-dimensional continuum.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "(usually in the plural) The attractive shape of a woman's body.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          }
        ],
        "synonyms": [],
        "antonyms": []
      },
      {
        "partOfSpeech": "verb",
        "definitions": [
          {
            "definition": "To bend; to crook.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": [],
            "example": "to curve a line"
          },
          {
            "definition": "To cause to swerve from a straight course.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": [],
            "example": "to curve a ball in pitching it"
          },
          {
            "definition": "To bend or turn gradually from a given direction.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": [],
            "example": "the road curves to the right"
          },
          {
            "definition": "To grade on a curve (bell curve of a normal distribution).",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": [],
            "example": "The teacher will curve the test."
          },
          {
            "definition": "To reject, to turn down romantic advances.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": [],
            "example": "I was once curved three times by the same woman."
          }
        ],
        "synonyms": [],
        "antonyms": []
      },
      {
        "partOfSpeech": "adjective",
        "definitions": [
          {
            "definition": "Bent without angles; crooked; curved.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": [],
            "example": "a curve line"
          }
        ],
        "synonyms": [],
        "antonyms": []
      }
    ],
    "license": {
      "name": "CC BY-SA 3.0",
      "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0"
    },
    "sourceUrls": [
      "https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/curve"
    ]
  }
]