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  "dictype": "WikiDicScrap",
  "error": false,
  "code": 200,
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    "type": "wiki",
    "pronunciations": {
      "phonetic": [
        "kərv"
      ],
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          "lang": "Audio (US)",
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          "lang": "Audio (US)",
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    "meansorg": {
      "etymologies": [
        "Attested since the 1690s, from Latin curvus (“bent, curved”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to bend, curve, turn”) + *-wós. Doublet of curb, shrink, carcer, and cancer."
      ],
      "typelist": [
        {
          "name": "Adjective",
          "meanlist": [
            {
              "mean": "(obsolete) Bent without angles; crooked; curved.\na curve line\na curve surface"
            }
          ]
        },
        {
          "name": "Noun",
          "meanlist": [
            {
              "mean": "A gentle bend, such as in a road.\nYou should slow down when approaching a curve."
            },
            {
              "mean": "A simple figure containing no straight portions and no angles; a curved line.\nShe scribbled a curve on the paper."
            },
            {
              "mean": "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.\nThe teacher was nice and graded the test on a curve."
            },
            {
              "mean": "(analytic geometry) A continuous map from a one-dimensional space to a multidimensional space."
            },
            {
              "mean": "(geometry) A one-dimensional figure of non-zero length; the graph of a continuous map from a one-dimensional space."
            },
            {
              "mean": "(algebraic geometry) An algebraic curve; a polynomial relation of the planar coordinates."
            },
            {
              "mean": "(topology) A one-dimensional continuum."
            },
            {
              "mean": "(informal, usually in the plural) The attractive shape of a woman's body."
            }
          ]
        },
        {
          "name": "Verb",
          "meanlist": [
            {
              "mean": "(transitive) To bend; to crook.\nto curve a line\nto curve a pipe"
            },
            {
              "mean": "(transitive) To cause to swerve from a straight course.\nto curve a ball in pitching it"
            },
            {
              "mean": "(intransitive) To bend or turn gradually from a given direction.\nthe road curves to the right"
            },
            {
              "mean": "(transitive) To grade on a curve (bell curve of a normal distribution).\nThe teacher will curve the test."
            },
            {
              "mean": "(transitive) (slang) To reject, to turn down romantic advances.\nI was once curved three times by the same woman."
            }
          ]
        }
      ]
    },
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      "etymologies": [
        ""
      ],
      "typelist": [
        {
          "name": "형용사",
          "meanlist": [
            {
              "mean": ""
            }
          ]
        },
        {
          "name": "명사",
          "meanlist": [
            {
              "mean": ""
            },
            {
              "mean": ""
            },
            {
              "mean": ""
            },
            {
              "mean": ""
            },
            {
              "mean": ""
            },
            {
              "mean": ""
            },
            {
              "mean": ""
            },
            {
              "mean": ""
            }
          ]
        },
        {
          "name": "동사.",
          "meanlist": [
            {
              "mean": ""
            },
            {
              "mean": ""
            },
            {
              "mean": ""
            },
            {
              "mean": ""
            },
            {
              "mean": ""
            }
          ]
        }
      ]
    }
  }
}