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curl
I. \ˈkərl, esp before pause or consonant ˈkər.əl; ˈkə̄l, ˈkəil\ verb
(-ed/-ing/-s)
Etymology: Middle English curlen, crullen, from crolle, crulle curly, probably from Middle Dutch; akin to Old High German krol curly, Norwegian krull, Middle High German krūs, Old English crēas fine, elegant, cradol cradle — more at cradle
transitive verb
1. : to twist or form into coils or ringlets (as the hair)
2. : to form into a curved shape : make a curve or curves in or on : twist
< curled one leg about the other >
3. : to furnish with or as if with curls
< a head curled with graceful locks >
4. : to contort in a grimace or similar expression of feeling
< curling his lips in a sneer >
< she looked at him contemptuously and then curled her mouth up in anger — Liam O'Flaherty >
5. : to cut so thinly as to create a twisted or ringed effect
< curled bacon >
< curled celery stalks >
intransitive verb
1. : to grow in coils or spirals
< her hair curls naturally >
< a curling vine >
: form ripples, crinkles, or ringlets
< her hair curls only in damp weather >
< bacon curls when fried >
< the crisp white edge of a curling wave — F.J.Mather >
2. : to move or progress in curves or spirals
< the lanes curl and wind into a … sort of labyrinth — Faubion Bowers >
: form into rings or curves
< the snake lashed and curled — William Beebe >
: roll or move in ripples
< his laughter curled round his sentences — Virginia Woolf >
3. : to twist or contort (as in a grimace)
< his lip curled in scorn >
4. : to play the game of curling
Synonyms: see wind
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- curl the hair
II. noun
(-s)
1. : a lock of hair that coils : ringlet
2. : something having a curling or coiling shape (as a shaving of wood) : coil, spiral
3. : the action or fact of curling : the state of being curled
< keep the hair in curl >
4.
a. : an eddy in a stream
b. South : a bend in a stream
5. : an abnormal rolling or curling of leaves; also : a malformation caused by the feeding of aphids or other sucking insects — compare leaf curl, leaf roll
6.
a. archery : a sudden turn in the grain of a bow
b. : a curved or spiral marking in the grain of wood
7. : tendril
8. mathematics : the vector product of the operator del and the vector
9. : the degree to which a sheet of paper departs from a plane when freely exposed to the atmosphere
III. noun
1. : a hollow arch of water formed when the crest of a breaking wave spills forward — called also tube tunnel
2. : a body-building exercise in which a weight held at thigh level is raised to chest or shoulder level and then lowered without moving the shoulders or upper arms |