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Definition of 'curl'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (v.t.) curl
to form into coils or ringlets, as the hair.

2.  curl
to form into a spiral or curved shape; coil.

3.  curl
to adorn with or as if with curls or ringlets.

4. (v.i.) curl
to grow in or form curls or ringlets, as the hair.

5.  curl
to become curved or undulated.

6.  curl
to coil.

7.  curl
to play the game of curling.

8.  curl
to move or progress in a curving direction or path.

9.  curl
curl up, to sit or lie down cozily:
to curl up with a good book.

10. (n.) curl
a coil or ringlet of hair.

11.  curl
anything of a spiral or curved shape.

12.  curl
a coil.

13.  curl
the act of curling or the state of being curled.

14.  curl
any disease of plants characterized by curling of the leaves.

15.  curl
a vector obtained from a given vector by taking its cross product with the vector whose coordinates are the partial derivative operators with respect to each coordinate.

16.  curl
the operation that produces this vector.

17.  curl
a forearm lift in which a weight is raised from the level of the thighs to the chest or shoulders while keeping the legs, upper arms, and shoulders taut.

Definition of 'curl'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (noun) coil, whorl, roll, curl, curlicue, ringlet, gyre, scroll
a round shape formed by a series of concentric circles (as formed by leaves or flower petals)

2. (noun) Curl, Robert Curl, Robert F. Curl, Robert Floyd Curl Jr.
American chemist who with Richard Smalley and Harold Kroto discovered fullerenes and opened a new branch of chemistry (born in 1933)

3. (verb) lock, curl, ringlet, whorl
a strand or cluster of hair

4. (verb) curl, curve, kink
form a curl, curve, or kink
"the cigar smoke curled up at the ceiling"

5. (verb) curl up, curl, draw in
shape one's body into a curl
"She curled farther down under the covers"; "She fell and drew in"

6. (verb) coil, loop, curl
wind around something in coils or loops

7. (verb) curl, wave
twist or roll into coils or ringlets
"curl my hair, please"

8. (verb) curl
play the Scottish game of curling

Definition of 'curl'

Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary

1. (verb) curl
to twist or bend into the shape of a curl
to curl your hair; smoke curling from the chimney

2. (noun) curl
a circular twist of hair
a girl with dark curls

3. curl
sth in the shape of a curl
a curl of chocolate on top

Definition of 'curl'

Webster Dictionary

1. (noun) curl
to twist or form into ringlets; to crisp, as the hair

2. (noun) curl
to twist or make onto coils, as a serpent's body

3. (noun) curl
to deck with, or as with, curls; to ornament

4. (noun) curl
to raise in waves or undulations; to ripple

5. (noun) curl
to shape (the brim) into a curve

6.  curl
a ringlet, especially of hair; anything of a spiral or winding form

7.  curl
an undulating or waving line or streak in any substance, as wood, glass, etc.; flexure; sinuosity

8.  curl
a disease in potatoes, in which the leaves, at their first appearance, seem curled and shrunken

9. (verb) curl
to contract or bend into curls or ringlets, as hair; to grow in curls or spirals, as a vine; to be crinkled or contorted; to have a curly appearance; as, leaves lie curled on the ground

10. (verb) curl
to move in curves, spirals, or undulations; to contract in curving outlines; to bend in a curved form; to make a curl or curls

11. (verb) curl
to play at the game called curling

Translation of 'curl'

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

Sense: to twist or turn (especially hair) into small coils or rolls My hair curls easily.
Afrikaans: krul	Arabic: يتَجَعَّد، يَفْتِل	Bulgarian: извивам (се)
Brazilian: encaracolar	Czech: kadeřit (se)	German: locken
Danish: krølle	Greek: σγουραίνω	Spanish: rizar, enrollar
Estonian: kähardama, käharduma	Farsi: فرفری شدن؛ مجعد شدن	Finnish: kihartua
French: friser	Hebrew: לְסַלסֵל	Hindi: घुंघराला बनाना
Croatian: kovrčati	Hungarian: göndörödik	Indonesian: mengeriting
Icelandic: krulla, liða	Italian: arricciare, arricciarsi	Japanese: カールさせる
Korean: 곱슬곱하게 되다	Lithuanian: garbanoti(s), sukti(s)	Latvian: sprogoties; cirtoties; []
Malay: melingkar	Dutch: krullen	Norwegian: krølle(s), tvinne, rulle
Polish: skręcać się	Persian: فرفری شدن؛ مجعد شدن	Pashto: ول ول کول ، ګور ګوټی کول
Portuguese: encaracolar	Romanian: a (se) ondula	Russian: завивать(ся)
Slovak: kučeraviť (sa)	Slovenian: kodrati (se)	Serbian: kovrdžati se
Swedish: krulla, locka	Thai: ม้วน	Turkish: kıvrılmak, kıvrım kıvrım
Taiwanese: 捲曲	Ukrainian: завивати(ся); витися	Urdu: گهنگهريال‍ے بنانا، موڑنا
Vietnamese: uốn quăn	Chinese: 卷曲
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