| Main Entry: | loop |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | circle, spiral |
Synonyms: |
arc, arch, begird, bend, bow, braid, coil, compass, connect, crook, curl, curve, curve around, encircle, encompass, fold, gird, girdle, join, knot, ring, roll, surround, tie together, turn, twist, wind around |
Antonyms: |
line |
| Main Entry: | looped |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | drunk |
Synonyms: |
bashed, befuddled, besotted, boozed up, buzzed, crapulent, crapulous, crocked, drunk as a skunk, drunken, feeling no pain, flushed, flying*, fuddled, glazed, groggy, half-seas over, high as a kite, high*, in, in one's cups, inebriate, inebriated, intoxicated, juiced, laced, liquored up, lit, lush, muddled, plastered, potted, seeing double, sloshed, sodden, stewed, stoned, tanked, three sheets to the wind, tight*, tipsy, totaled, under the influence, under the table, wasted* |
| Main Entry: | bend |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | form or cause a curve |
Synonyms: |
angle away, angle off, arch, bow, buckle, camber, careen, circle, contort, crimp, crinkle, crook, crouch, curl, deflect, deform, detour, double, droop, flex, genuflect, hook, incline, incurvate, lean, loop, pervert, round, spiral, stoop, swerve, tilt, turn, twist, veer, verge, warp, waver, wilt, wind, yaw, zigzag |
Antonyms: |
straighten |
| Main Entry: | bent |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | curved |
Synonyms: |
angled, arced, arched, arciform, bowed, contorted, crooked, curvilinear, doubled over, drooping, droopy, hooked, humped, hunched, inclined, limp, looped, round, rounded, sinuous, slouchy, slumped, stooped, twined, twisted, warped, wilted |
Antonyms: |
straight |
| Main Entry: | circle |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | go around, circumnavigate |
Synonyms: |
begird, belt, cincture, circuit, circulate, circumduct, circumscribe, coil, compass, curve, embrace, encircle, enclose, encompass, ensphere, envelop, gird, girdle, gyrate, gyre, hem in, loop, mill around, pivot, revolve, ring, roll, rotate, round, spiral, surround, tour, wheel, whirl, wind about |
| Main Entry: | coil |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | curl around, entwine |
Synonyms: |
convolute, convolve, corkscrew, fold, intertwine, intervolve, lap, loop, make serpentine, rotate, scroll, sinuate, snake, spiral, spire, turn, twine, twist, wind, wrap around, wreathe, writhe |
| Main Entry: | continuous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | constant, unending |
Synonyms: |
connected, consecutive, continued, day and night, endless, everlasting, extended, for ever and ever, interminable, looped, no end of, no end to, on a treadmill, perpetual, prolonged, regular, repeated, stable, steady, timeless, unbroken, unceasing, undivided, unfaltering, uninterrupted |
| Notes: | continually means 'repeatedly, with breaks in between' and continuously means 'without interruption, in an unbroken stream'; continual typically refers to time while continuous can refer to space as well as time |
Antonyms: |
ceasing, completed, discontinuous, ending, finished, halting, intermittent, interrupted, sporadic, stopping |
| Main Entry: | curly |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | looping, forming ringlets |
Synonyms: |
coiled, convoluted, corkscrew, crimped, crimpy, crinkling, crinkly, crisp, curled, curling, frizzed, frizzy, fuzzy, kinky, looped, permed, spiralled, waved, waving, wavy, winding, wound |
Antonyms: |
straight |
| Main Entry: | curve |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | bending in a shape or course |
Synonyms: |
arc, arch, bend, bow, buckle, bulge, coil, concave, convex, crook, crumple, curl, deviate, divert, gyrate, hook, incurve, inflect, loop, round, skew, snake, spiral, stoop, swerve, turn, twist, veer, wind, wreathe |
Antonyms: |
straighten |
| Main Entry: | curved |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | bowed, bent |
Synonyms: |
S-shaped, arced, arched, arciform, arrondi, biflected, circular, compass, crooked, curly, curvaceous, curvilinear, declinate, elliptical, enbowed, humped, incurvate, incurved, looped, loopy, round, rounded, serpentine, sigmoid, sinuous, skewed, snaky, sweeping, swirly, turned, twisted, twisting, twisty, wreathed |
Antonyms: |
straight |