Curb

Definition: Curb

Curb

Noun

1. An edge between a sidewalk and a roadway consisting of a line of curbstones (usually forming part of a gutter).

2. A horse's bit with an attached chain or strap to check the horse.

3. A stock exchange in New York.

4. The act of restraining power or action or limiting excess; "his common sense is a bridle to his quick temper".

Verb

1. Lessen the intensity of; temper; hold in restraint; hold or keep within limits; "moderate your alcohol intake" "hold your tongue"; "hold your temper"; "control your anger".

2. To put down by force or authority; "suppress a nascent uprising", "stamp down on littering" "conquer one's desires".

3. Keep to the curb; "curb your dogs".

4. Place restrictions on; "curtail drinking in school".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "curb" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Note: Curb \Curb\, transitive verb. [imperfect & past participle. Curbed; Curbing.]. (references)

Building & Civil Engineering

Food & Agriculture

Mining

Sports & Leisure

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CURB

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Synonyms: Curb

Angularity

Platonic bodies; cube, rhomboid; tetrahedron, pentahedron, hexahedron, octahedron, dodecahedron, icosahedron, eicosahedron; prism, pyramid; parallelopiped; curb roof, gambrel roof, mansard roof.

Dissuasion

Cohibition; (restraint); curb; (means of restraint); check; (hindrance).

Moderation

Tranquilize, pacify, assuage, appease, swag, lull, soothe, compose, still, calm, calm down, cool, quiet, hush, quell, sober, pacify, tame, damp, lay, allay, rebate, slacken, smooth, alleviate, rock to sleep, deaden, smooth, throw cold water on, throw a wet blanket over, turn off; slake; curb; (restrain); tame; (subjugate); smooth over; pour oil on the waves, pour oil on the troubled waters; pour balm into, mattre de l'eau dans son vin.

Prison

Yoke, collar, halter, harness; muzzle, gag, bit, brake, curb, snaffle, bridle; rein, reins; bearing rein; martingale; leading string; tether, picket, band, guy, chain; cord; (fastening); cavesson, hackamore, headstall, jaquima, lines, ribbons.

Restraint

Verb: restrain, check; put under restraint, lay under restraint; enthral, enthrall, inthral, inthrall, bethral, bethrall; restrict; debar; (hinder); constrain; coerce; (compel); curb, control; hold back, hold from, hold in, hold in check, hold within bounds, keep back, keep from, keep in, keep in check, keep within bounds; hold in leash, hold in leading strings; withhold.

Curb; (means of restraint); lettres de cachet.

Slowness

Retard, relax; slacken, check, moderate, rein in, curb; reef; strike sail, shorten sail, take in sail; put on the drag, apply the brake; clip the wings; reduce the speed; slacken speed, slacken one's pace; lose ground.

Crosswords: Curb

Romanian (curved).

Women: You can't live with them, can't leave 'em on the curb when you're done with them (Moonlighting; writing credit: Glenn Gordon Caron)

We can walk to the curb from here (Annie Hall; writing credit: Woody Allen ; Marshall Brickman)

Hanging off the curb, looking all disturbed (Buffalo Stance; performing artist: Neneh Cherry)

Curb Your Enthusiasm (2000)

Larry David: Curb Your Enthusiasm (1999)

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Books

• Car Hops and Curb Service: A History of American Drive-In Restaurants 1920-1960 (reference)

• Curb in Eden (reference)

• Curb Rights: A Foundation for Free Enterprise in Urban Transit (reference)

• Cuss Control: The Complete Book on How to Curb Your Cursing (reference)

• Helping Colombia Fix Its Plan to Curb Drug Trafficking, Violence, and Insurgency [DOWNLOAD: PDF] (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Curb Dogs:Freestyle 1 (reference)

• Curb Your Enthusiasm (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Curb Your Dogma (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

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Aerial view of contour buffer strips on highly erodible cropland in Winneshiek County in northeast Iowa. Strips of green alfalfa help curb erosion by providing breaks from the more erodible corn fields. Credit: Tim McCabe.

Can you beat it for preempted curb space?. Credit: Library of Congress.

Am I going to let that bird curb my act?. Credit: Library of Congress.

Curb street brokers and Broad exchange, New York. Credit: Library of Congress.

Curb market, Broad Street, New York, N.Y. Credit: Library of Congress.

Broad Street and the curb brokers, New York City. Credit: Library of Congress.

Curb service, Newport News, Virginia. Credit: Library of Congress.

Farmers sitting on curb and bumpers of car, Saturday afternoon, Steele, Missouri. Credit: Library of Congress.

The Curb market, Broad St. Credit: Library of Congress.

Curb & clean up after your dog please. Credit: Library of Congress.

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This well has not in front the large blue flagging stone, which serves as a curb for all the wells of Belgium

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Health

As the new vaccine work indicates (see Pursuing an Anti-amyloid Vaccine), in some circumstances, inflammation – stepping up the activity of brain microglial cells – might actually help curb amyloid accumulation. (references)

Urinary Problems—If you suffer from urinary leakage or urinary incontinence, such as an inability to get to the toilet in time or losing control when you sneeze, laugh, or step off a curb, be sure to consult your doctor. (references)

Business

To counteract illegal copying of software products, companies such as Software Publisher Association (SPA) and Software Legal S.A. are working on solutions to curb down piracy. (references)

Software Legal, an organization that represents software designers as well as developers in Argentina, managed to curb software piracy by signing agreements with trade associations. (references)

However, in an effort to curb money laundering, the Government prohibited foreign direct investors from obtaining ownership in real estate not connected with other investment activities. (references)

Civil Liberties

Belarus

The authorities continued efforts to curb the role of foreign clergy. (references)

Jordan

The amendment was viewed widely as an effort to curb the influence of campus Islamists. (references)

Pakistan

Beginning in midyear, the Government undertook a major effort to curb religious extremism and address the intimidation of religious minorities. (references)

Economic History

Uzbekistan

The curb or black market for foreign currency is active, but illegal. (references)

Finland

Since then, the major aim of the government's fiscal policy has been to curb the growth of debt. (references)

Ghana

Increased fiscal and monetary discipline was imposed to curb inflation and to focus on priorities. (references)

Human Rights

Pakistan

In urban Sindh, the CPLC committees helped to curb some excesses, but complaints of large-scale police abuses persist. (references)

Brazil

In late 2000, the Sao Paulo Secretary of Security signed a resolution creating a Special Commission that seeks to curb excessive use of police force. (references)

Dominican Republic

For example, on May 11, police allegedly shot 26-year-old Ruben Dario Paniagua in the head as he sat on the curb in front of his house reading the newspaper with his 10-year-old brother. (references)

Political Economy

Pakistan

In midyear the Government undertook a major effort to curb religious extremism. (references)

UKRAINE

In September 2000, general parameters for future state-debt policies (specifically 2001-2004) were issued to help curb the growing foreign debt. (references)

CHINA

To curb surplus production in 2000, the government allowed grain and cotton prices to fall by more than 20 percent, bringing domestic prices closer to international levels. (references)

Political Rights

Malaysia

The Parliament in 1995 amended its rules to strengthen the power of the Speaker and curb parliamentary procedures heavily used by the opposition. (references)

Travel

Cote D'ivoire

Walk close to the curb. (references)

Uzbekistan

Since the national currency, the soum, is not convertible there is a regulated rate of exchange offered at exchange booths (785 soum/dollar in April 2001) and a curb market exchange rate (about 900 soum/dollar) . It is illegal to exchange money except at authorized currency exchange offices and violation of this law is a punishable offense. (references)

Women

Nigeria

The Federal Government publicly opposes female genital mutilation (FGM), which is condemned widely by international health experts as damaging to both physical and psychological health; however, it has taken no legal action to curb the practice. (references)

Worker Rights

Australia

The primary curb on union power is the abolition of closed shops and union demarcations. (references)

Moldova

This pattern has become so well known that one foreign adoption service registered as an NGO and organized a "foster-an-orphan" program in order to help curb the practice. (references)

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "curb": after hours market curb ♦ at the curb ♦ Curb bit ♦ curb cut ♦ curb demand ♦ curb exchange ♦ curb market ♦ Curb pins ♦ Curb plate ♦ curb roof ♦ Deck curb ♦ put a curb on ♦ to the curb ♦ wide curb lane. Additional references.

Beginning with "curb": curb-bit, curb-chain, curb-stone.

Albanian

mbaj nën fre, fre kali (bit), buzë (bank, border, brim, edge, hem, lip, margin, rim, ring, selvage, Selvedge, skirt, verge, welt). (various references)

Arabic 

‏كابح (restraint, spoiler), ‏كبح (arrest, bridle, check, contain, control, hamper, hinder, hold, hold back, inhibit, inhibition, keep back, keep down, keep under control, leash, master, press, prevent, rein, repress, repression, restrain, restraint, steady, subdual, subdue, suppress, suppression, tame, withhold), ‏لجام (bridle, rein), ‏قيود (bands, bonds, chains, constraint, constriction, handcuffs, manacles, qualifications, shacks, squeeze, trammels), ‏حاجز البئر, ‏تطويق (circling, embracing, encirclement, enclosure, ringing, surrounding). (various references)

Bulgarian 

юзда (bridle, rein), решетка пред камина (fender), обуздаване (bridle, repression, restraint), обуздавам (bit, bridle, chastise, hamshackle, harness, leash, manage, quell, rein in, repress, restrain, school, smother, steady), бордюр (curbstone, edge-stone, frieze, kerb, kerbstone, list). (various references)

Chinese 

遏制 (Containment, Curbed, Curbing), 路邊 (roadside, wayside). (various references)

Czech

uzda (bridle, rein), udržovat v přijatelných mezích, udidlo (bit), omezit (abate, circumscribe, confine, constrict, curtail, cut back, cut down, decrease, deflate, limit, narrow, prune, restrict, retrench, scale down, terminate, trammel), omezení (abatement, check, circumscription, constriction, cut, cutback, limit, limitation, limitations, restraint, restriction, termination, trammels), okraj chodníku, krotit (constrain, hamshackle, restrain, tame), držet na uzdì (rein). (various references)

Danish

saede (buttocks, ischium, moulded seat, nates, seat, tube seat), sænkekassekrans, kindkaede til bidsler, kantsten (curbstone, edging, kerb, raised kerb, upstanding kerb), hasespat, fortovskant (curbstone, edging, kerb). (various references)

Dutch

zitting van de glasbuis of glaspot (tube seat), waaier (fan), verhoogde band (curbstone, edging, kerb), trottoirband (curbstone, edging, kerb, raised kerb, upstanding kerb), stoeprand (curbstone, edging, kerb), steunhoekijzer, schampstrook (curbstone, edging, kerb), schamprand (curbstone, edging, kerb), schampkant (curbstone, edging, kerb), reebeen, opsluitband (curbstone, edging, kerb), kinketting, kantopsluiting (curbstone, edging, kerb), dakopstand, beschermingshoekijzer. (various references)

Farsi 

فرونشاندن (Appease, Calm, Extinguish, Infix, Lull, Pacify, Quash, Quell, Quench, Relieve, Remit, Repress, Sate, Slack, Soften, Stanch, Stifle, Suppress, Tranquilize), محدودکردن (Bound, Compass, Confine, Cramp, Dam, Gag, Impale, Limit, Narrow, Qualify, Quantify, Restrict, Stint, Straiten, Terminate), لبه پیاده رو, تحت کنترل دراوردن (Subject), زنجیر (Bond, Catena, Hobble, Link, Manacle, Sling, Tow), جلوگیری (Blockage, Interdict, Obstruction, Preservation, Prevention, Restraint, Restriction, Snub, Stoppage, Suppression), دارای دیواره یاحایل کردن , بازداشت (Deterrence, Stoppage). (various references)

Finnish

side (band, bandage, binding, bond, tie), pitää aisoissa (keep in check, keep within bounds), jänispatti, hillitä (calm, check, control, hold back, master, repress, restrain, suppress). (various references)

French

gourmette. (various references)

German

zügeln (bridle, chasten, check, hold in, keep in, pull in, quell, rein in, restrain, rule, school, tame, to curb), Bordstein (curbstone, kerb, kerbstone), Randstein (curbstone, kerb, kerbstone), bordkante (kerb). (various references)

Greek 

κράσπεδο (causeway, edging, flounce, fringe, furbelow, hem, skirt, wayside, welt), συγκρατώ (bottle up, check, clip, contain, control, govern, hold, hold back, hold in, hold together, keep down, keep in, restrain), χαλιναγωγώ (bit, bridle, rein). (various references)

Hebrew 

מעצור (balk, baulk, block, brake, check, hindrance, inhibition, jam, obstacle, rein, restraint, stopper, trammel), מדרכה (footway, kerb, pavement, sidewalk), למתג (bridle, rein, restrain, toggle), לרתום (bind, bridle, harness, hitch, team), לרסן (bridle, restrain), רסן (bridle, check, rein, restraint), רסון (bridling, harnessing, restraint). (various references)

Hungarian

zabla (bit, snaffle, snaffle bit), járdaszegély (curbside, curb-stone, kerb, kerb stone). (various references)

Indonesian

mengekang (bridle, pull in the reins, trammel), menahan (bate, bridle, detain, endure, keep back, retain, weather, withhold, withstand), membatasi (abridge, border, bound, curtail, define, form the border of, limit, restrict), birai (banister, low wall). (various references)

Italian

barbazzale. (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

縁石 . (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

えんせき (a relative, banquet, dinner party, distant relative, matting, relatives). (various references)

Korean 

커브. (various references)

Manx

streeaney (bridle, check, contain, containment, control, rein, restrain, retard, retardation), smaghtey (castigate, chasten, chastening, check, checking, control, discipline, manage, master, repression, suppress), cur cribban er, cribbey (contract, shrink, shrinkage), cribban (kerb, tether), clagh oirragh. (various references)

Norwegian

fortauskant (kerb), dempe (dim, fade, quell). (various references)

Pig Latin

urbcay.(various references)

Portuguese

cercadura de passeio (curbstone, edging, kerb), curva (bend, bent, crook, curve, flexion, knee, meander, turn, turnabout, turning, twist, winding), curvaça, inibir (inhibit), beira (bank shore, board, border, brink, edge, flange, flap, front, margin, rim, side, tip, verge), esparavão (spavin, string halt), esparvão, barbela (barb, beard, dewlap), guia (cicerone, clue, conductor, director, fountainhead, guidance, guide book, guidebook, handbook, leader, leadership, mastermind, oracle, pathfinder, principle, rudder, waybill), suporte da rodela (tube seat), lancil (curbstone, edging, kerb), limitação (accouchement, barrier, bond, calaboose, circumscription, confinement, cramp, limitation, narrowness, prison, qualification, reservation, reserve, restraint, restriction, retrenchment, stint), meio-fio (kerb), parapeito (breastwork, mound, rail, rampart, traverse), rebordo (flange, fold, ledge, offset, rim, shoulder), refrear (bit, bottle, bridle, coerce, refrain, repress, restrain, rule, tutor), restringir (abridge, astrict, bind, check, confine, contract, cork, cramp, hedge, inhibit, limit, manacle, narrow, put a lid on, qualify, restrain, restrict, retrench, scant, skimp, specialize), freio (bit, brake, bridle, restraint, restraints, shoe, snaffle). (various references)

Romanian

comprima (compress, condense, constrain, hold, jam, pack, repress, sack, squash), zãbalã (bit, cannon bit), struni (bridle, restrain), strunã (bit, Catling, chord, cord, rein, string), opri (abate, abstain, arrest, balk, bar, baulk, break, bring to, bring to a stop, call off, circumvent, clog, collar, contain, cut off, deflate, delay, discontinue, end, estop, forbear, forbid, foreclose, halt, hinder, hold, inhibit, interdict, keep back, phase out, prohibit, pull up, put a stopper on, put out, quench, restrain, retain, shut out, snag, staunch, stay, stem, stop, strangle, subside, taboo, withhold), modera (dilute, diminish, moderate, reduce, regulate, temper), margine (abutment, bank, border, bounds, brim, brink, compass, edge, edging, end, extremity, fringe, kerb, ledge, limit, list, Marge, margin, outskirts, periphery, precinct, rim, seam, termination, tether, verge), mãsura (admeasure, estimate, fathom, gauge, measure, measure off, measure out, mensurate, mete out, overshoot the mark, survey), frâu (bridle, rein, reins, restraint, ribbon), frâna (arrest, check, hamper, hinder, lock, put on the brake), bordurã (binding, border, curb-stone, edging, flange, frame, fringe, kerb, ledge, list, margin, trimming), înstruna, înfrânge (bear down, beat down, best, break, defeat, foil, knock, master, overcome, overmatch, overpower, pip, stifle, vanquish, worsen, worst), înfrâna (bridle, refrain, restrain, tame, vanquish), îmblânzi (daunt, domesticate, gentle, humanize, manage, mellow, milden, pacify, propitiate, reclaim, subdue, tame, train). (various references)

Russian 

узда (bridle), обуздывать обочина, обуздывать, обочина тротуара. (various references)

Scottish

caisg (check, quell, quench, restrain, stop). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

uzda (bridle, rein), obuzdavanje (fetters), obuzdati (chasten, control, keep in, leash, rein, rein in, restrain, school), ivičnjak (roadside). (various references)

Spanish

bordillo (keratin, kerb, kerbstone, sidewalk), brocal (curbstone, edging, extruded kerb of coated materials, kerb, parapet). (various references)

Swedish

trottoarkant (curbstone, kerb, kerbstone). (various references)

Turkish

zapt etmek, uzak tutmak (hold at bay, hold off, keep apart, keep at bay, keep away, keep off, keep out, stand off), kaldırım kenarı, gemlemek (check, fit the bit), gem vurmak (bridle, fit the bit, rein back), gem (bit, bridle, gag bit), frenlemek (bottle up, brake, bridle, check, contain, govern, keep in, rein back, restrain, retard), fren (brake, break), at ayağındaki şişlik. (various references)

Ukrainian

стримувати (abate, bound, bridle, chasten, check, coerce, constrain, contain, control, deter, dominate, hold in, inhibit, moderate, pocket, rein, restrain, stay, stop, suppress, swaddle, swallow, temper), узбіччя (roadside), уздечка, шори (blind, goggles), край тротуару, загнуздати, приборкувати (chasten, check, halter, harness, mortify, refrain). (various references)

Vietnamese 

thành giếng, sự nén lại (repression), sự kìm lại, sự hạn chế bờ giếng. (various references)

Welsh

ffrwyno (bridle). (various references)

coercere, coercitus, coercui, cohibebant, cohibebo, cohibere, cohibita, compescor, conpescens, conpescuit, freno, inhibere, refrenantem. (various references)

courbe. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "curb": curbable, curbed, curber, curbers, curbing, curbings, curbs, curbside, curbsides, curbstone, curbstones. (additional references)

Words ending with "curb": uncurb, wellcurb. (additional references)

Words containing "curb": cucurbit, cucurbits, uncurbed, uncurbing, uncurbs, wellcurbs. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Curb" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: carb, Carbh, caur, cerb, churb, Corb, Corob, courbe, crub, Cruibh, cruz, cubb, Cubr, cubry, cuib, cuir, cumb, cura, curbe, curby, curc, curf, curn, curo, curx, furb, kurb, lurb, nurb, purb, scurb, surb, ucjba, Ucrb, urb. (additional references)

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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: bur, cub, cur, rub, urb.

+1 letter: crumb, cuber, curbs, scrub.

+2 letters: brucin, brunch, bucker, buckra, cherub, crumbs, crumby, cubers, cumber, curbed, curber, lubric, rubace, rubric, scrubs, uncurb.

+3 letters: becrust, becurse, becurst, bescour, blucher, bouncer, brucine, brucins, buckers, buckler, buckram, buckras, burdock, butcher, butyric, caribou, cherubs, clubber, clumber, crumbed, crumber, crumble, crumbly, crumbum, cudbear, cumbers, curable, curably, curbers, curbing, obscure, roebuck, rubaces, rubidic, rubrics, runback, scrubby, suberic, subrace, unbrace, uncurbs.