curl
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
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botany
business
calculus
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crafts
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food
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natural-sciences
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Etymology: From metathesis of Middle English crulle (“curled, curly”), of uncertain origin but probably from an unrecorded Old English word or from Middle Dutch crul, crulle (“curl”), ultimately from Proto-Germanic *kruzlǭ (“bent or crooked object, curl”), connected to *krūsą (“curl”), of unknown origin.
Cognate with Saterland Frisian Krulle (“curl, lock”), West Frisian krul (“curl”), Dutch krul (“curl”), German Low German Krull (“curl”), dialectal German Krolle (“curl”), Danish krølle (“curl”), Norwegian Bokmål krøll (“curl”). Related also to Saterland Frisian Kruus (“curl”), German kraus (“frizzy, crumpled, curly”), Danish krus (“curl”), Swedish krusa (“to crimp, curl”). Compare also Gothic 𐌺𐍂𐌹𐌿𐍃𐍄𐌰𐌽 (kriustan, “to grind, crush, gnash”).
Inflected forms:
form: curls
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: curls
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: curling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: curled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: curled
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A curving piece or lock of hair; a ringlet.
pos: noun
examples: My hair doesn't have much curl.
[…]she took it down, looked long and fondly at it, then, shaking her curls about her face, as if to hide the act, pressed it to her lips and seemed to weep over it in an uncontrollable paroxysm of tender grief.
Serene, smiling, enigmatic, she faced him with no fear whatever showing in her dark eyes.[…]She put back a truant curl from her forehead where it had sought egress to the world, and looked him full in the face now, drawing a deep breath which caused the round of her bosom to lift the lace at her throat.
The face which emerged was not reassuring.[…]. He was not a mongol but there was a deficiency of a sort there, and it was not made more pretty by a latter-day hair cut which involved eccentrically long elf-locks and oiled black curls.
gloss: A curved stroke or shape.
pos: noun
examples: […] the backs of their necks and their forelegs are decorated with curls and their necks and bodies are covered with fine, undulating lines.
gloss: A spin making the trajectory of an object curve.
pos: noun
examples: It is possible to use the wind which blows from the left to the right by playing well into the wind with the slightest bit of curl on the ball[…]
gloss: Movement of a moving rock away from a straight line.
pos: noun
gloss: Any exercise performed by bending the arm, wrist, or leg on the exertion against resistance, especially those that train the biceps.
pos: noun
examples: Now do a curl and an overhead press, keeping your palms facing in.
gloss: The vector field denoting the rotationality of a given vector field.
pos: noun
examples: The curl of the vector field #92;vec#123;F#125;(x,y,z) is the vector field #92;operatorname#123;curl#125;#92;,#92;vec#123;F#125;#92;equiv#92;vec#123;#92;nabla#125;#92;times#92;vec#123;F#125;#61;#92;left(#92;frac#123;#92;partialF#95;z#125;#123;#92;partialy#125;-#92;frac#123;#92;partialF#95;y#125;#123;#92;partialz#125;,#92;frac#123;#92;partialF#95;x#125;#123;#92;partialz#125;-#92;frac#123;#92;partialF#95;z#125;#123;#92;partialx#125;,#92;frac#123;#92;partialF#95;y#125;#123;#92;partialx#125;-#92;frac#123;#92;partialF#95;x#125;#123;#92;partialy#125;#92;right).
In 2D, when Q is a polygonal domain, the singularities of Type (2) disappear because ψ is the scalar curl of u and is such that its vectorial curl is zero.
gloss: The vector operator, denoted rm curl; or ⃑∇×⃑(·), that generates this field.
pos: noun
tags: proper-noun
gloss: Any of various diseases of plants causing the leaves or shoots to curl up; often specifically the potato curl.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: These potatoes, however, planted the next year, have a fair yield, untouched by the curl.
gloss: The contrasting light and dark figure seen in wood used for stringed instrument making; the flame.
pos: noun
examples: The one-piece back is of a medium curl.
gloss: A pattern where the receiver appears to be running a fly pattern but after a set number of steps or yards quickly stops and turns around, looking for a pass.
pos: noun
gloss: A thin, curved piece of chocolate used as decoration.
pos: noun
tags: in-plural
gloss: The concave part of a breaking wave.
pos: noun
examples: The main object in surfing is to always remain in the curl.
gloss: To cause to move in a curve.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: He picked the ball up about forty yards out on the left wing, left a trail of Arsenal defenders in his wake, and curled the ball round Geoff Barnett as he came right out into the far corner.
Campbell should have scored but missed with a header from four yards at the far post before Taylor-Fletcher came close to adding a second when he curled an effort over the stranded Reina, who should have been punished for a poor clearance.
gloss: To make into a curl or spiral.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: She curls her spine; she wedges a pillow between her knees.
gloss: To assume the shape of a curl or spiral.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: It seemed to me that Mr. St. John's under lip protruded, and his upper lip curled a moment.
gloss: To move in curves.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Clouds curled down from the mountains.
The ball curled to a stop within six inches of the hole.
gloss: To take part in the sport of curling.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: I curl at my local club every weekend.
gloss: To exercise by bending the arm, wrist, or leg on the exertion against resistance, especially of the biceps.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: When curling the weight, bring the barbell up toward the chin, then return it to its starting position. Keep your elbows and upper arms as immobile as possible to isolate the biceps.
gloss: To twist or form (the hair, etc.) into ringlets.
pos: verb
examples: But curl their locks with bodkins and with braids
There was also hairdressing: hairdressing, too, really was hairdressing in those times — no running a comb through it and that was that. It was curled, frizzed, waved, put in curlers overnight, waved with hot tongs;[…].
gloss: To deck with, or as if with, curls; to ornament.
pos: verb
examples: Thicker than the snakie locks / That curld Megæra.
Curling with metaphors a plain intention.
gloss: To raise in waves or undulations; to ripple.
pos: verb
examples: Seas would be pools without the brushing air / To curl the waves.
gloss: To shape (the brim of a hat) into a curve.
pos: verb
Antonyms: extension
straighten
uncoil
unroll
Related words: coil
Derived words: barbell curl
becurl
bicep curl
biceps curl
bluecurls
blue curls
cable curl
cheat curl
cheese curl
concentration curl
curl bar
curl grub
curlicue
curliness
curlless
curl-paper
curlpaper
curls for the girls
curl snake
curlsome
curl-up
curly
dumbbell curl
hammer curl
high-cable curl
Jerry curl
jerry curl
Jheri curl
kiss-curl
kiss curl
leaf curl
leg curl
lipcurl
love curl
machine curl
pin curl
preacher curl
reverse curl
scalar curl
spit curl
trunk curl
Utah curls
wrist curl
Zottman curl
querl
upcurl
curlable
curled
curler
curling
curling iron
curlingly
curling tongs
curl one off
curl one out
curl someone's hair
curl up
hair-curling
hair curling
leaf-curling spider
make someone's hair curl
make someone's toenails curl
make someone's toes curl
noncurling
outcurl
recurl
toe-curling
uncurl
Translations:
lang: Asturian
word: rotor
lang: Asturian
word: rotacional
lang: Bulgarian
word: ротор
roman: rotor
lang: Catalan
word: rotacional
lang: Czech
word: rotace
lang: Dutch
word: rotatie
lang: Finnish
word: roottori
lang: French
word: rotationnel
lang: Galician
word: rotacional
lang: Italian
word: rotore
lang: Polish
word: rotacja
lang: Portuguese
word: rotacional
lang: Russian
word: ро́тор
roman: rótor
lang: Spanish
word: rotacional
lang: Swedish
word: rotation