All camber synonyms
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C c verb camber
- bend β When you bend, you move the top part of your body downwards and forwards. Plants and trees also bend.
- arc β An arc is a smoothly curving line or movement.
- flex β to bend, as a part of the body: He flexed his arms to show off his muscles.
- crouch β If you are crouching, your legs are bent under you so that you are close to the ground and leaning forward slightly.
- veer β to change direction or turn about or aside; shift, turn, or change from one course, position, inclination, etc., to another: The speaker kept veering from his main topic. The car veered off the road.
- tilt β to furnish with a tilt.
- buckle β A buckle is a piece of metal or plastic attached to one end of a belt or strap, which is used to fasten it.
- stoop β to bend the head and shoulders, or the body generally, forward and downward from an erect position: to stoop over a desk.
- lean β to incline or bend from a vertical position: She leaned out the window.
- twist β to combine, as two or more strands or threads, by winding together; intertwine.
- curl β If you have curls, your hair is in the form of tight curves and spirals.
- angle β An angle is the difference in direction between two lines or surfaces. Angles are measured in degrees.
- bridge β A bridge is a structure that is built over a railway, river, or road so that people or vehicles can cross from one side to the other.
- span β the act of causing a spinning or whirling motion.
- form β external appearance of a clearly defined area, as distinguished from color or material; configuration: a triangular form.
- stretch β to draw out or extend (oneself, a body, limbs, wings, etc.) to the full length or extent (often followed by out): to stretch oneself out on the ground.
- hump β a rounded protuberance, especially a fleshy protuberance on the back, as that due to abnormal curvature of the spine in humans, or that normally present in certain animals, as the camel or bison.
- bow β When you bow to someone, you briefly bend your body towards them as a formal way of greeting them or showing respect.
- hook β a curved or angular piece of metal or other hard substance for catching, pulling, holding, or suspending something.
- shape β Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers, Europe.
- bend β When you bend, you move the top part of your body downwards and forwards. Plants and trees also bend.
- round β having a flat, circular surface, as a disk.
- hunch β to thrust out or up in a hump; arch: to hunch one's back.
- slope β to have or take an inclined or oblique direction or angle considered with reference to a vertical or horizontal plane; slant.
- incline β to deviate from the vertical or horizontal; slant.
- slant β to veer or angle away from a given level or line, especially from a horizontal; slope.
- cant β a salient angle.
- pitch β to smear or cover with pitch.
- swerve β to turn aside abruptly in movement or direction; deviate suddenly from the straight or direct course.
- pervert β to affect with perversion.
- deform β If something deforms a person's body or something else, it causes it to have an unnatural shape. In technical English, you can also say that the second thing deforms.
- zigzag β a line, course, or progression characterized by sharp turns first to one side and then to the other.
- crook β A crook is a dishonest person or a criminal.
- verge β the edge, rim, or margin of something: the verge of a desert; to operate on the verge of fraud.
- droop β to sag, sink, bend, or hang down, as from weakness, exhaustion, or lack of support.
- yaw β to deviate temporarily from a straight course, as a ship.
noun camber
- leaning β the act or state of leaning; inclination: The tower has a pronounced lean.
- trajectory β the curve described by a projectile, rocket, or the like in its flight.
- contour β You can refer to the general shape or outline of an object as its contours.
- catenary β the curve assumed by a heavy uniform flexible cord hanging freely from two points. When symmetrical about the y-axis and intersecting it at y = a, the equation is y = a cosh x/a
- incurvate β curved, especially inward.
- incurvation β curved, especially inward.
- sinuosity β Often, sinuosities. a curve, bend, or turn: a sinuosity of the road.
- gradient β the degree of inclination, or the rate of ascent or descent, in a highway, railroad, etc.
- rake β inclination or slope away from the perpendicular or the horizontal.
- diagonal β A diagonal line or movement goes in a sloping direction, for example, from one corner of a square across to the opposite corner.
- grade β a degree or step in a scale, as of rank, advancement, quality, value, or intensity: the best grade of paper.
- declination β the angular distance, esp in degrees, of a star, planet, etc, from the celestial equator measured north (positive) or south (negative) along the great circle passing through the celestial poles and the body
- ramp β a wild onion, Allium tricoccum, of the amaryllis family, of eastern North America, having flat leaves and rounded clusters of whitish flowers; eaten raw or used as a flavoring in cooked foods.
- inclination β a disposition or bent, especially of the mind or will; a liking or preference: Much against his inclination, he was forced to resign.