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/ˈkæm.bə/ · noun
A slight convexity, arching or curvature of a surface of a road, beam, roof, ship's deck etc., so that liquids will flow off the sides..
From end to end, just behind the houses, ran the broad gravel walk, with its emphatic camber and its metal-edged gutters where a child's ball would come to rest and the first few plane leaves, dusty but still green, were already falling, since the summer had been so hot and rainless all through.
The track was stony with a grassy camber up the middle.
Again we were stricken of our palsy, slowed down, re-accelerated, and there, at last, were the few huts of a hamlet, with the lorry, lying at an angle in the road's camber, outside a tea-shop.
Even a small camber one way caused the whole outfit to list alarmingly.
Because he cambered the tires too much, he had less control on the turns.
Use camber when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Camber means A slight convexity, arching or curvature of a surface of a road, beam, roof, ship's deck etc., so that liquids will flow off the sides..
Common synonyms include crossfall, cant, bank.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
From end to end, just behind the houses, ran the broad gravel walk, with its emphatic camber and its metal-edged gutters where a child's ball would come to rest and the first few plane leaves, dusty but still green, were already falling, since the summer had been so hot and rainless all through.
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