curl
Meaning of curl
verb
- form or cause to form into a curved or spiral shape.
her fingers curled round the microphone
a slice of ham had begun to curl up at the edges
she used to curl her hair with rags
- (in weight training) lift (a weight) using only the hands, wrists, and forearms.
slowly curl the barbell to shoulder height
- play at the game of curling.
during the severe spell in 1740, men curled on the pond
- something in the shape of a spiral or coil, especially a lock of hair.
her blonde hair was a mass of tangled curls
a curl of blue smoke
- a weightlifting exercise involving movement of only the hands, wrists, and forearms.
a dumb-bell curl
- a function giving a measure of the rotation of a vector field.
late Middle English: from obsolete crulle ‘curly’, from Middle Dutch krul .
Information about curl
- The plural form of curl is: curls.
- Languages in which curl is used:
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Hyphenation of curl
curl
- It consists of 1 syllables and 4 chars.
- curl is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable
curl synonyms
Meaning coil:
coil, whorl, roll, curlicue, ringlet, gyre, scroll, loop
Meaning lock:
Meaning curve:
Meaning wave:
Meaning cause (someone) to have difficulty breathing because of exertion or a blow to the stomach:
Meaning interlace:
Meaning wind or twist together; interweave:
Meaning cover or enclose in paper or soft material:
Meaning make waves in (someone's hair) with curling tongs:
Meaning (in the US) a Chinese association or secret society, frequently associated with organized crime:
Meaning set (the hair) in a perm:
Meaning fry or grill with a sizzling noise:
Meaning form into small surface creases or wrinkles:
Meaning a device for pulling corks from bottles, consisting of a spiral metal rod that is inserted into the cork, and a handle that extracts it:
Meaning a spiral curve, shape, pattern, or object:
Meaning an arrangement of flowers, leaves, or stems fastened in a ring and used for decoration or for laying on a grave:
Meaning an act of spinning:
Meaning a quantity of something moving in a twisting or spiralling pattern:
Meaning roll or fold up (something) neatly and securely:
Meaning a thing with a spiral shape:
Meaning an object having a three-dimensional shape like that of a wire wound uniformly in a single layer around a cylinder or cone, as in a corkscrew or spiral staircase:
Translation of curl
- Italian: arricciare, increspare
- French: friser
- Spanish: encrespar
Words that rhyme with curl
becurl, recurl, semicurl, encurl, uncurl, upcurl, intercurl, overcurl, undercurl
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