[{"Bold_text": "noun", "List Items": ["a continuously bending line, without angles.", "the act or extent of curving.", "any curved outline, form, thing, or part.", "a curved section of a road, path, hallway, etc.", "Railroads.a curved section of track: in the U.S. the curve is often expressed as the central angle, measured in degrees, of a curved section of track subtended by a chord 100 feet (30 meters) longdegree of curve.", "Baseball. curveball(def) curveball(def).the path followed by a ball pitched as a curveball:The curve on that ball was nasty!", "curveball(def) curveball(def).", "the path followed by a ball pitched as a curveball:The curve on that ball was nasty!", "a graphic representation of the variations effected in something by the influence of changing conditions; graph .", "Mathematics.a collection of points whose coordinates are continuous functions of a single independent variable.", "a misleading or deceptive trick; cheat ; deception .", "Education.a grading system based on the scale of performance, so that those performing better relative to others in the group, regardless of their actual knowledge of the subject, receive high grades:Compare absolute(def10) absolute(def10).The new English professor grades on a curve.", "a curved guide used in drafting."]}, {"Bold_text": "verb (used with object)", "List Items": ["to bend in a curve; cause to take the course of a curve.", "to grade on a curve."]}, {"Bold_text": "verb (used without object)", "List Items": ["to bend in a curve; take the course of a curve.", "Baseball.to pitch a curveball :After two forkballs, Stewart curved to Hernandez for a called strike."]}, {"Bold_text": "adjective", "List Items": ["having the shape of a curve; curved."]}]