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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024curl /kɜrl/USA pronunciation v. - to (cause to) grow in or form small rings;
(cause to) become curved or wavy: [no object]When she was young, her hair curled naturally.[~ + object]She spent a lot of time curling her hair. - to (cause to) curve, twist, or coil: [no object]The sleeping cat's tail curled around its body.[~ + object]The cat curled its tail around itself.
- to move in a curving direction:[no object]The road curls a little to the left.
- curl up, [no object]
- to sit or lie down cozily:to curl up with a good book.
- to become twisted up on the edges:All his old papers had curled up.
n. [countable] - a coil or small ring of hair:blond curls.
- anything of a spiral or curved shape:curls of wood on the workshop floor.
Idioms- Idioms curl one's or the hair, to fill one with horror:That new horror movie will really curl your hair.
- Idioms curl one's lip, to raise a corner of one's lip, as in an expression of disdain or scorn.
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024curl (kûrl),USA pronunciation v.t. - to form into coils or ringlets, as the hair.
- to form into a spiral or curved shape; coil.
- to adorn with, or as with, curls or ringlets.
v.i. - to grow in or form curls or ringlets, as the hair.
- to become curved or undulated.
- to coil.
- Gamesto play at the game of curling.
- to progress in a curving direction or path;
move in a curving or spiraling way:The ball curled toward the plate. - Idioms curl one's or the hair, to fill with horror or fright;
shock:Some of his stories about sailing across the Atlantic are enough to curl one's hair. - Idioms curl one's lip, to assume or display an expression of contempt:He curled his lip in disdain.
- curl up, to sit or lie down cozily:to curl up with a good book.
n. - a coil or ringlet of hair.
- anything of a spiral or curved shape, as a lettuce leaf, wood shaving, etc.
- a coil.
- the act of curling or state of being curled.
- [Plant Pathol.]
- Plant Diseasesthe distortion, fluting, or puffing of a leaf, resulting from the unequal development of its two sides.
- Plant Diseasesa disease so characterized.
- MathematicsAlso called rotation.
- 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.
- the operation that produces this vector.
- Sport[Weight Lifting.]
- an underhand forearm lift in which the barbell, held against the thighs, is raised to the chest and then lowered while keeping the legs, upper arms, and shoulders taut.
- a similar forearm lift using a dumbbell or dumbbells, usually from the side of the body to the shoulders.
- 1400–50; late Middle English, apparently back formation from curled, metathetic variant of Middle English crulled (past participle) crul (adjective, adjectival); compare Middle Dutch crullen to curl, cruller
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