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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.
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| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
| a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal. |
noun
Verb phrases 9.
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.
Plant 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.
Weightlifting.
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.
Idioms curl 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
lɪd curl·ed·ness, noun
in·ter·curl, verb
un·der·curl, noun
un·der·curl, verb
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curl (kɜːl) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —vb (sometimes foll by up) | |
| 1. | (intr) (esp of hair) to grow into curves or ringlets |
| 2. | to twist or roll (something, esp hair) into coils or ringlets |
| 3. | ( |
| 4. | (intr) to move in a curving or twisting manner |
| 5. | (intr) to play the game of curling |
| 6. | curl one's lip to show contempt, as by raising a corner of the lip |
| —n | |
| 7. | a curve or coil of hair |
| 8. | a curved or spiral shape or mark, as in wood |
| 9. | the act of curling or state of being curled |
| 10. | any of various plant diseases characterized by curling of the leaves |
| 11. | maths divergence Compare gradient rot, Also called: rotation a vector quantity associated with a vector field that is the vector product of the operator ∇ and a vector function A, where ∇ = i∂/∂x + j∂/∂by + k∂/∂z,i, j, and k being unit vectors. Usually written curl A, rot A |
| [C14: probably from Middle Dutch crullen to curl; related to Middle High German krol curly, Middle Low German krūs curly] | |
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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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