Meaning of வளைவு in English

Any part of a curved line.
Usually a curved member made up of separate wedge-shaped solids, with the joints between them disposed in the direction of the radii of the curve; used to support the wall or other weight above an opening. In this sense arches are segmental, round (i. e., semicircular), or pointed.
A flat arch is a member constructed of stones cut into wedges or other shapes so as to support each other without rising in a curve.
Any place covered by an arch; an archway; as, to pass into the arch of a bridge.
Any curvature in the form of an arch; as, the arch of the aorta.
To cover with an arch or arches.
To form or bend into the shape of an arch.
To form into an arch; to curve.
A prefix signifying chief, as in archbuilder, archfiend.
Chief; eminent; greatest; principal.
Cunning or sly; sportively mischievous; roguish; as, an arch look, word, lad.
A chief.
A suffix meaning a ruler, as in monarch (a sole ruler).
of Arch
The arched part of a structure.
Hogging; -- opposed to sagging.
In an arch manner; with attractive slyness or roguishness; slyly; waggishly.
A way or passage under an arch.
Of or pertaining to an arc.
The act of bending or curving; incurvation; the state of being bent; crookedness.
A mode of propagating trees by bending branches to the ground, and covering the small shoots with earth; layering.
To strain or move out of a straight line; to crook by straining; to make crooked; to curve; to make ready for use by drawing into a curve; as, to bend a bow; to bend the knee.
To turn toward some certain point; to direct; to incline.
To apply closely or with interest; to direct.
To cause to yield; to render submissive; to subdue.
To fasten, as one rope to another, or as a sail to its yard or stay; or as a cable to the ring of an anchor.
To be moved or strained out of a straight line; to crook or be curving; to bow.
To jut over; to overhang.
To be inclined; to be directed.
To bow in prayer, or in token of submission.
A turn or deflection from a straight line or from the proper direction or normal position; a curve; a crook; as, a slight bend of the body; a bend in a road.
Turn; purpose; inclination; ends.
A knot by which one rope is fastened to another or to an anchor, spar, or post.
The best quality of sole leather; a butt. See Butt.
Hard, indurated clay; bind.
same as caisson disease. Usually referred to as the bends.
A band.
One of the honorable ordinaries, containing a third or a fifth part of the field. It crosses the field diagonally from the dexter chief to the sinister base.
Alt. of Curvant
Alt. of Curvated
The act of bending or crooking.
The act of curving, or the state of being bent or curved; a curving or bending, normal or abnormal, as of a line or surface from a rectilinear direction; a bend; a curve.
The amount of degree of bending of a mathematical curve, or the tendency at any point to depart from a tangent drawn to the curve at that point.
Bent without angles; crooked; curved; as, a curve line; a curve surface.
A bending without angles; that which is bent; a flexure; as, a curve in a railway or canal.
A line described according to some low, and having no finite portion of it a straight line.
To bend; to crook; as, to curve a line; to curve a pipe; to cause to swerve from a straight course; as, to curve a ball in pitching it.
To bend or turn gradually from a given direction; as, the road curves to the right.
The state of being curved.
A particular leap of a horse, when he raises both his fore legs at once, equally advanced, and, as his fore legs are falling, raises his hind legs, so that all his legs are in the air at once.
A prank; a frolic.
To make a curvet; to leap; to bound.
To leap and frisk; to frolic.
To cause to curvet.
of Curvet
Having a curved or crooked tail.
Having bent ribs.
Having curved teeth.
Consisting of, or bounded by, curved lines; as, a curvilinear figure.
Having a curved form.
In a curvilinear manner.
The state of being curvilinear or of being bounded by curved lines.
of Curve
Having a crooked beak, as the crossbill.
Distributed in a curved line, as leaves along a stem.
An arcograph.
The state of being curved; a bending in a regular form; crookedness.
of Ramp
Quality or state of being sinuous.
A bend, or a series of bends and turns; a winding, or a series of windings; a wave line; a curve.