cursive
1: having successive letter joined together; "cursive script" n : rapid handwriting in which letters are set down in full and cursively connected within words without lifting the writing implement fro...
cursive script
1: rapid handwriting in which letters are set down in full and cursively connected within words without lifting the writing implement from the paper [syn: {longhand}, {running hand}, {cursive}]
cursor
1: (computer science) indicator consisting of a movable spot of light (an icon) on a visual display; moving the cursor allows the user to point to commands or screen positions [syn: {pointer}]
cursorial
1: (of limbs and feet) adapted for running [ant: {fossorial}]
cursorily
1: without taking pains; "he looked cursorily through the magazine" [syn: {quickly}]
Cursorius
1: coursers [syn: {genus Cursorius}]
Cursorius cursor
1: courser of desert and semidesert regions of the Old World [syn: {cream-colored courser}]
cursory
1: hasty and without attention to detail; not thorough; "a casual (or cursory) inspection failed to reveal the house's structural flaws"; "a passing glance"; "perfunctory courtesy" [syn: {casual}, {pa...
curt
1: marked by rude or peremptory shortness; "try to cultivate a less brusque manner"; "a curt reply"; "the salesgirl was very short with him" [syn: {brusque}, {brusk}, {short(p)}] 2: brief and to the p...
curtail
1: place restrictions on; "curtail drinking in school" [syn: {restrict}, {curb}, {cut back}] 2: terminate or abbreviate before its intended or proper end or its full extent; "My speech was cut short";...
curtailment
1: the temporal property of being cut short 2: the act of withholding or withdrawing some book or writing from publication or circulation; "a suppression of the newspaper" [syn: {suppression}] 3: the ...
curtain
1: hanging cloth used as a blind (especially for a window) [syn: {drape}, {drapery}, {mantle}, {pall}] 2: any barrier to communication or vision; "a curtain of secrecy"; "a curtain of trees" v : provi...
curtain call
1: an appearance by actors or performers at the end of the concert or play in order to acknowledge the applause of the audience [syn: {bow}]
curtain raiser
1: any preliminary activity 2: a short play presented before the main play
curtain raising
1: the first performance (as of a theatrical production); "the opening received good critical reviews" [syn: {opening}, {opening night}]
curtained
1: furnished or concealed with curtains or draperies; "a curtained alcove" [ant: {curtainless}]
curtainless
1: not provided with curtains; "blank, curtainless windows stared back at her" [syn: {uncurtained}] [ant: {curtained}]
curtal
1: (obsolete) cut short; "a dog with a curtal tail"
curtilage
1: the enclosed land around a house or other building; "it was a small house with almost no yard" [syn: {yard}, {grounds}]
Curtis
1: English botanical writer and publisher (1746-1799) [syn: {William Curtis}]
Curtisia
1: a large evergreen tree of South Africa [syn: {genus Curtisia}]
Curtiss
1: United States industrialist and aviation pioneer (1878-1930) [syn: {Glenn Curtiss}, {Glenn Hammond Curtiss}]
curtly
1: in a curt, abrupt and discourteous manner; "he told me curtly to get on with it"; "he talked short with everyone"; "he said shortly that he didn't like it" [syn: {short}, {shortly}]
curtness
1: an abrupt discourteous manner [syn: {abruptness}, {brusqueness}, {gruffness}, {shortness}]
curtsey
1: bending at the knees; a gesture of respect made by women [syn: {curtsy}] v : a gesture of respectful greeting, for women [syn: {curtsy}]
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curtsy
1: bending at the knees; a gesture of respect made by women [syn: {curtsey}] v 1: a gesture of respectful greeting, for women [syn: {curtsey}] 2: make a curtsy; usually done only by girls and women; a...
curvaceous
1: (of a woman's body) having a large bosom and pleasing curves; "Hollywood seems full of curvaceous blondes"; "a curvy young woman in a tight dress" [syn: {bosomy}, {busty}, {buxom}, {curvy}, {full-b...
curvaceously
1: in a curvaceous way; "his date was curvaceously beguiling" [syn: {buxomly}]
curvaceousness
1: the quality of having a well-rounded body [syn: {shapeliness}, {voluptuousness}]
curvature
1: (medicine) a curving or bending; often abnormal; "curvature of the spine" 2: the rate of change (at a point) of the angle between a curve and a tangent to the curve 3: the property possessed by the...
curve
1: the trace of a point whose direction of motion changes [syn: {curved shape}] [ant: {straight line}] 2: a line on a graph representing data 3: a baseball thrown with spin so that its path curves as ...
curve ball
1: a baseball thrown with spin so that its path curves as it approach the batter [syn: {curve}, {breaking ball}, {bender}]
curved
1: not straight; having or marked by a curve or smoothly rounded bend; "the curved tusks of a walrus"; "his curved lips suggested a smile but his eyes were hard" [syn: {curving}] [ant: {straight}]
curved shape
1: the trace of a point whose direction of motion changes [syn: {curve}] [ant: {straight line}]
curvet
1: a light leap by a horse in which both hind legs leave the ground before the forelegs come down [syn: {vaulting}] v : perform a leap where both hind legs come off the ground, of a horse [also: {curv...
curvey
1: having curves; "a settee with only one curvy end" [syn: {curvy}]
curvilineal
1: characterized by or following a curved line; "curvilinear tracery"; "curvilinear motion" [syn: {curvilinear}]
curvilinear
1: characterized by or following a curved line; "curvilinear tracery"; "curvilinear motion" [syn: {curvilineal}]
curvilinear correlation
1: any correlation in which the rates of change of the variables is not constant [syn: {nonlinear correlation}, {skew correlation}]
curvilinear regression
1: the relation between variables when the regression equation is nonlinear (quadratic or higher order)
curving
1: not straight; having or marked by a curve or smoothly rounded bend; "the curved tusks of a walrus"; "his curved lips suggested a smile but his eyes were hard" [syn: {curved}] [ant: {straight}]
curvy
1: having curves; "a settee with only one curvy end" [syn: {curvey}] 2: (of a woman's body) having a large bosom and pleasing curves; "Hollywood seems full of curvaceous blondes"; "a curvy young woman...
Cusco
1: a town in the Andes in southern Peru; formerly the capital of the Inca empire [syn: {Cuzco}]
cuscus
1: woolly-haired monkey-like arboreal marsupial of New Guinea and northern Australia
Cuscuta
1: genus of twining leafless parasitic herbs lacking chlorophyll: dodder [syn: {genus Cuscuta}]
Cuscuta gronovii
1: leafless parasitic vine with dense clusters of small white bell-shaped flowers on orange-yellow stems that twine around clover or flax [syn: {love vine}]
cush-cush
1: tropical American yam with small yellow-skinned edible tubers [syn: {Dioscorea trifida}]
cushat
1: Eurasian pigeon with white patches on wings and neck [syn: {wood pigeon}, {ringdove}, {Columba palumbus}]
cushaw
1: plant bearing squash having globose to ovoid fruit with variously striped gray and green and white warty rinds [syn: {Cucurbita mixta}, {Cucurbita argyrosperma}] 2: globose or ovoid squash with str...
Cushing
1: United States neurologist noted for his study of the brain and pituitary gland and who identified Cushing's syndrome (1869-1939) [syn: {Harvey Cushing}, {Harvery Williams Cushing}]
Cushing's disease
1: a glandular disorder caused by excessive ACTH resulting in greater than normal functioning of the adrenal gland; characterized by obesity [syn: {hyperadrenalism}]
Cushing's syndrome
1: a glandular disorder caused by excessive cortisol [syn: {hyperadrenocorticism}]
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