Concave is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for CONCAVE in dictionary:

VERB:
• to curve inward
• To make hollow or concave.
• make concave
NOUN:
• A hollow; an arched vault; a cavity; a recess.
• A curved sheath or breasting for a revolving cylinder or roll.
ADJECTIVE:
• curved inward
• having an outline or surface that curves inwards like the interior of a circle or sphere
• curving inwards
• Hollow and curved or rounded; vaulted; -- said of the interior of a curved surface or line, as of the curve of the of the inner surface of an eggshell, in opposition to convex; as, a concave mirror; the concave arch of the sky.
• Hollow; void of contents.
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to make concave (curving inward)

Words related to CONCAVE

concaved16 concavely19 concaveness18 concaves15 concaving17 invexed18

Words that contain CONCAVE

concaved16 concaves15 biconcave18 concavely19 concaveness18 concavenesses20

How to use CONCAVE in a sentence

• Peetka roused himself, pulled out of his shirt a concave stone and a little woody-looking knot.
• Peetka was hammering a fragment of it into powder, with his heavy clasp-knife, on the concave stone.
• Suddenly the fugitive was within a concave semi-circle of men who were awaiting him firmly, and a convex semi-circle following his footsteps in irregular pursuit.
• Above five gross per day are ground of convex and concave glasses in one shop.
• The concave cast-iron plate is preferable, as it increases the range of the shot.
• In these are concave places in which the preparation is deposited, and the dangerous beasts are thus kept at a great distance.
• Night or day, on the surface or submerged, only one time, a kind of motionless electric high noon, existed within those concave walls of gleaming cream-white enamel.
• The blocks are small and badly cut, the stone courses being concave, to offer a better resistance to downward thrust and to shocks of earthquake.
• They are either convex or concave, according to the kind of sight requiring them.
• A few points, brighter than the rest, particularly in its concave part, revealed the presence of lofty mountains, probably the Himalayahs.
• Soon he thought he could discern an irregular pink crescent, with the concave side downwards, somewhere in the blackness beyond the bows.
• Bard for sawing staves concave on one side and convex on the other.
• Its fundamental doctrine is that the surface of the earth on which we live is the inside of a hollow sphere, and therefore concave, instead of convex, as generally supposed.
• The sublime concave of the dome, with the four arms of the great cross of equal size, will be all at once grasped by the eye.
• The blocks are small, and badly cut, the stone courses being concave to offer a better resistance to downward thrust and to shocks of earthquake.
• The land worn away at one point is often deposited, in the form of a bar or tongue of land, in the concave of the next bend.
• The back of the little rail is very concave, or hollow.
• Behind him the cliff rose upwards, in front and, to his right, and left a concave wall, straight down to the beach.
• While you are so doing the concave shell will suddenly assume a strongly convex appearance.
• The head was formed like the concave of a crescent, with an eye near the end of each point, and a small orifice just behind each eye, like an ear.
• Some had a kind of concave, cylindrical, stiff black cap, which appeared to be a great ornament among them, and, we thought, was only worn by men of note or warriors.

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