curl
noun
1. a round shape formed by a series of concentric circles (as formed by leaves or flower petals)
Similar word(s): coil, curlicue, gyre, ringlet, roll, scroll, whorl
Definition categories: shape
2. American chemist who with Richard Smalley and Harold Kroto discovered fullerenes and opened a new branch of chemistry (born in 1933)
Definition categories: person
3. a strand or cluster of hair
Similar word(s): lock, ringlet, whorl
Definition categories: body, hair
Sentences with curl as a noun:
- The curl of the vector field is the vector field .
- The one-piece back is of a medium curl.
verb
1. form a curl, curve, or kink
- the cigar smoke curled up at the ceiling
Definition categories: change
2. shape one's body into a curl
- She curled farther down under the covers
Definition categories: motion, bend, flex
3. wind around something in coils or loops
Definition categories: contact, roll, twine, wind, wrap
4. twist or roll into coils or ringlets
- curl my hair, please
Similar word(s): wave
Definition categories: contact, twist
5. play the Scottish game of curling
Definition categories: competition, play
Sentences with curl as a verb:
- I curl at my local club every weekend.