Difference between Kink and Curve

What is the difference between Kink and Curve?

Kink as a noun is a tight curl, twist, or bend in a length of thin material, hair etc. while Curve as a noun is a gentle bend, such as in a road.

Kink

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A tight curl, twist, or bend in a length of thin material, hair etc. A difficulty or flaw that is likely to impede operation, as in a plan or system. Peculiarity or deviation in sexual behaviour or taste. A positive 1-soliton solution to the Sine–Gordon equation

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To form a kink. To be formed into a kink.

Curve

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Bent without angles; crooked; curved.

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A gentle bend, such as in a road.A simple figure containing no straight portions and no angles; a curved line.A continuous map from a one-dimensional space to a multidimensional space.A one-dimensional figure of non-zero length; the graph of a continuous map from a one-dimensional space.An algebraic curve; a polynomial relation of the planar coordinates.A one-dimensional continuum.(informal, usually in plural curves) The attractive shape of a woman's body.

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To bend; to crook.To cause to swerve from a straight course.To bend or turn gradually from a given direction.

Example sentence: We really want our kids, and our youth, to understand that one, knowledge is power, and two, you don't have to be shy about being educated, and being ahead of the learning curve.

We hope you now know whether to use Kink or Curve in your sentence.

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