Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive & intransitive verb To curve (something) backward or downward or become curved backward or downward.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To curve back; turn backward. Also
recurvate . - To be recurved.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To curve in an opposite or unusual direction; to bend back or down.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To
curve again, torebend . - verb To
curve back on itself.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb curve or bend (something) back or down
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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In connection with the proper classification to be assigned to those borderline loop-tented arch cases where an appendage or spike is thrusting out from the recurve, it is necessary to remember that _an appendage or a spike abutting upon a recurve at right angles in the space between the shoulders of a loop on the outside is considered to spoil the recurve_.
The Science of Fingerprints Classification and Uses United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation 1933
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A mountain muley with a a recurve is about as dream hunt as it gets.
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A mountain muley with a a recurve is about as dream hunt as it gets.
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The recurve is great for bowfishing but if you really want to succed with deer and turkeys get a 60-70 lb compound with 80% let off.
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The recurve is great for bowfishing but if you really want to succed with deer and turkeys get a 60-70 lb compound with 80% let off.
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(A male and female archer compete in recurve or compound disciplines.)
Diver Troy Dumais wins two medals, athlete of the week award 2010
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My recurve is only a thirty: that one's a total girl bow.)
i'll be home and i'll be free coalescent 2007
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So you know, whether this thing heads -- remains inland and stays like say in Western South Carolina, and dumps a ton of rain in the mountains and causes some flooding there, or whether it actually curve -- continues to recurve, which is what we think it might actually do, and then head out to sea, that would be the best case scenario.
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Also, since most hurricanes begin to "recurve" toward the northeast upon reaching our latitude, such a storm usually passes by to the east (Hazel didn't), placing us in its less intense western, or left-hand semi-circle.
Otto may form, but tropical season slowing? Don Lipman 2010
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We have several deer mounts ranging in size from spike (first recurve kill) to a large 3 x 4 blacktail.
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