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Curling
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verb (used with object)
1.
to form into coils or ringlets, as the hair.
2.
to form into a spiral or curved shape; coil.
3.
to adorn with, or as with, curls or ringlets.
verb (used without object)
4.
to grow in or form curls or ringlets, as the hair.
5.
to become curved or undulated.
6.
to coil.
7.
to play at the game of curling.
8.
to progress in a curving direction or path; move in a curving or spiraling way: The ball curled toward the plate.
noun
Verb phrase9.
a coil or ringlet of hair.
10.
anything of a spiral or curved shape, as a lettuce leaf, wood shaving, etc.
11.
a coil.
12.
the act of curling or state of being curled.
13.
EXPANDPlant Pathology.
a.
the distortion, fluting, or puffing of a leaf, resulting from the unequal development of its two sides.
b.
a disease so characterized.
14.
Also called rotation. Mathematics.
a.
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.
b.
the operation that produces this vector.
15.
COLLAPSEWeightlifting.
a.
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.
b.
a similar forearm lift using a dumbbell or dumbbells, usually from the side of the body to the shoulders.
16.
Idiomscurl up, to sit or lie down cozily: to curl up with a good book.
17.
18.
curl one's/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.
Origin:
1400–50; late Middle English, apparently back formation from curled, metathetic variant of Middle English crulled (past participle) crul (adj.); compare Middle Dutch crullen to curl, cruller
1400–50; late Middle English, apparently back formation from curled, metathetic variant of Middle English crulled (past participle) crul (adj.); compare Middle Dutch crullen to curl, cruller
Related forms
curl·ed·ness, noun
in·ter·curl, verb
un·der·curl, noun
un·der·curl, verb
EXPANDwell-curled, adjective
COLLAPSE
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Word Origin & History
curl
mid-15c., metathesis of crulle (c.1300), probably from O.E. or from M.Du. krul "curly," from P.Gmc. *krusl-. The game of curling is so called from c.1620.
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