curl in English dictionary

  • curl

    Meanings and definitions of "curl"

    • A piece or lock of curling hair; a ringlet.
    • A curved stroke or shape.
    • A spin making the trajectory of an object curve.
    • (curling) Movement of a moving rock away from a straight line.
    • (weightlifting) Any exercise performed by bending the arm, wrist, or leg on the exertion against resistance, especially those that train the biceps.
    • (calculus) The vector field denoting the rotationality of a given vector field.
    • (calculus, proper noun) The vector operator, denoted \rm{curl}\; or \vec{\nabla}\times\vec{\left(\cdot\right)}, that generates this field.
    • (agriculture) Any of various diseases of plants causing the leaves or shoots to curl up; often specifically the potato curl.
    • (transitive) To cause to move in a curve.
    • (transitive) To make into a curl or spiral.
    • (intransitive) To assume the shape of a curl or spiral.
    • (intransitive) To move in curves.
    • (intransitive, curling) To take part in the sport of curling
    • (transitive, weightlifting) To exercise by bending the arm, wrist, or leg on the exertion against resistance, especially of the biceps.
    • noun
      A piece or lock of curling hair; a ringlet.
    • noun
      A curved stroke or shape.
    • noun
      A spin making the trajectory of an object curve.
    • noun
      (curling)
      Movement of a moving rock away from a straight line.
    • noun
      (weightlifting)
      Any exercise performed by bending the arm, wrist, or leg on the exertion against resistance, especially those that train the biceps.
    • noun
      (calculus)
      The vector field denoting the rotationality of a given vector field.
    • noun
      (calculus, proper noun)
      The vector operator, denoted \rm{curl}\; or \vec{\nabla}\times\vec{\left(\cdot\right)}, that generates this field.
    • noun
      (agriculture)
      Any of various diseases of plants causing the leaves or shoots to curl up; often specifically the potato curl.
    • noun
      (music, chiefly lutherie)
      The contrasting light and dark figure seen in wood used for stringed instrument making; the flame.
    • verb
      (transitive)
      To cause to move in a curve.
    • verb
      (transitive)
      To make into a curl or spiral.
    • verb
      (intransitive)
      To assume the shape of a curl or spiral.
    • verb
      (intransitive)
      To move in curves.
    • verb
      (intransitive, curling)
      To take part in the sport of curling.
    • verb
      (transitive, weightlifting)
      To exercise by bending the arm, wrist, or leg on the exertion against resistance, especially of the biceps.
    • verb
      To twist or form (the hair, etc.) into ringlets.
    • verb
      To deck with, or as if with, curls; to ornament.
    • verb
      To raise in waves or undulations; to ripple.
    • verb
      (hat-making)
      To shape (the brim of a hat) into a curve.
    • piece or lock of curling hair; a ringlet
    • curved stroke or shape
    • mathematics: vector operator
    • curl (smoke)
    • noun
      a round shape formed by a series of concentric circles (as formed by leaves or flower petals)
    • noun
      a strand or cluster of hair
    • verb
      form a curl, curve, or kink; "the cigar smoke curled up at the ceiling"
    • verb
      play the Scottish game of curling
    • verb
      shape one's body into a curl; "She curled farther down under the covers"; "She fell and drew in"
    • verb
      twist or roll into coils or ringlets; "curl my hair, please"
    • verb
      wind around something in coils or loops

    Synonyms of "curl" in English dictionary

    wrap, wave, scroll are the top synonyms of "curl" in the English thesaurus.

    Antonyms of "curl" in English dictionary

    uncoil is the antonym of "curl" in the English thesaurus.

    Grammar and declension of curl

    • curl ( third-person singular simple present curls, present participle curling, simple past and past participle curled)
    • curl ( plural  curls)
    • curl (plural curls)
    • curl (third-person singular simple present curls, present participle curling, simple past and past participle curled)
  • Curl

    Meanings and definitions of "curl"

    • Curl (programming language)
    • noun
      American chemist who with Richard Smalley and Harold Kroto discovered fullerenes and opened a new branch of chemistry (born in 1933)

    Synonyms of "curl" in English dictionary

    Robert Curl, Robert F. Curl, Robert Floyd Curl Jr. are the top synonyms of "curl" in the English thesaurus.

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