curl

(noun, verb)

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

Similar word(s): curve, kink

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

Similar word(s): coil, loop

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.