All halfmoon synonyms

noun halfmoon

• curve — A curve is a smooth, gradually bending line, for example part of the edge of a circle.
• arch — An arch is a structure that is curved at the top and is supported on either side by a pillar, post, or wall.
• trajectory — the curve described by a projectile, rocket, or the like in its flight.
• arc — An arc is a smoothly curving line or movement.
• contour — You can refer to the general shape or outline of an object as its contours.
• loop — a hot bloom of pasty consistency, to be worked under a hammer or in rolls.
• curvature — The curvature of something is its curved shape, especially when this shape is part of the circumference of a circle.
• bow — When you bow to someone, you briefly bend your body towards them as a formal way of greeting them or showing respect.
• crescent — A crescent is a curved shape that is wider in the middle than at its ends, like the shape of the moon during its first and last quarters. It is the most important symbol of the Islamic faith.
• round — having a flat, circular surface, as a disk.
• bend — When you bend, you move the top part of your body downwards and forwards. Plants and trees also bend.
• half-moon — the ship in which Henry Hudson made his voyage to explore America in 1609.
• curve — A curve is a smooth, gradually bending line, for example part of the edge of a circle.
• meniscus — a crescent or a crescent-shaped body.
• sickle — an implement for cutting grain, grass, etc., consisting of a curved, hooklike blade mounted in a short handle.
• swerve — to turn aside abruptly in movement or direction; deviate suddenly from the straight or direct course.
• sweep — to move or remove (dust, dirt, etc.) with or as if with a broom, brush, or the like.
• hairpin — a slender U -shaped piece of wire, shell, etc., used by women to fasten up the hair or hold a headdress.
• crook — A crook is a dishonest person or a criminal.
• whorl — a circular arrangement of like parts, as leaves or flowers, around a point on an axis; verticil.
• ambit — The ambit of something is its range or extent.
• concavity — the state or quality of being concave
• circle — A circle is a shape consisting of a curved line completely surrounding an area. Every part of the line is the same distance from the centre of the area.
• quirk — a peculiarity of action, behavior, or personality; mannerism: He is full of strange quirks.
• festoon — a string or chain of flowers, foliage, ribbon, etc., suspended in a curve between two points.
• bight — a wide indentation of a shoreline, or the body of water bounded by such a curve
• compass — A compass is an instrument that you use for finding directions. It has a dial and a magnetic needle that always points to the north.
• circumference — The circumference of a circle, place, or round object is the distance around its edge.
• turn — to cause to move around on an axis or about a center; rotate: to turn a wheel.
• circuit — An electrical circuit is a complete route which an electric current can flow around.
• vault — the act of vaulting.
• chord — A chord is a number of musical notes played or sung at the same time with a pleasing effect.
• horseshoe — a U -shaped metal plate, plain or with calks, nailed to a horse's hoof to protect it from being injured by hard or rough surfaces.
• hyperbola — the set of points in a plane whose distances to two fixed points in the plane have a constant difference; a curve consisting of two distinct and similar branches, formed by the intersection of a plane with a right circular cone when the plane makes a greater angle with the base than does the generator of the cone. Equation: x 2 /a 2 − y 2 /b 2 = ±1.
• ogee — a double curve, resembling the letter S, formed by the union of a concave and a convex line.
• helix — a spiral.
• flexure — the act of flexing or bending.
• curlicue — Curlicues are decorative twists and curls, usually carved or made with a pen.
• parabola — a plane curve formed by the intersection of a right circular cone with a plane parallel to a generator of the cone; the set of points in a plane that are equidistant from a fixed line and a fixed point in the same plane or in a parallel plane. Equation: y 2 = 2 px or x 2 = 2 py.
• camber — A camber is a gradual downward slope from the centre of a road to each side of it.
• catenary — the curve assumed by a heavy uniform flexible cord hanging freely from two points. When symmetrical about the y-axis and intersecting it at y = a, the equation is y = a cosh x/a
• incurvate — curved, especially inward.
• incurvation — curved, especially inward.
• sinuosity — Often, sinuosities. a curve, bend, or turn: a sinuosity of the road.
• satellite — Astronomy. a natural body that revolves around a planet; a moon.
• pumpkin — a large, edible, orange-yellow fruit borne by a coarse, decumbent vine, Cucurbita pepo, of the gourd family.
• planetoid — an asteroid.
• blow one's own horn — If you blow your own horn, you boast about yourself.
• demilune — an outwork in front of a fort, shaped like a crescent moon
• lune — a line for securing a hawk.