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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006) |
curl
n 1: a round shape formed by a series of concentric circles (as
formed by leaves or flower petals) [syn: coil, whorl,
roll, curl, curlicue, ringlet, gyre, scroll]
2: American chemist who with Richard Smalley and Harold Kroto
discovered fullerenes and opened a new branch of chemistry
(born in 1933) [syn: Curl, Robert Curl, Robert F. Curl,
Robert Floyd Curl Jr.]
3: a strand or cluster of hair [syn: lock, curl, ringlet,
whorl]
v 1: form a curl, curve, or kink; "the cigar smoke curled up at
the ceiling" [syn: curl, curve, kink]
2: shape one's body into a curl; "She curled farther down under
the covers"; "She fell and drew in" [syn: curl up, curl,
draw in]
3: wind around something in coils or loops [syn: coil, loop,
curl] [ant: uncoil]
4: twist or roll into coils or ringlets; "curl my hair, please"
[syn: curl, wave]
5: play the Scottish game of curling
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2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 |
Curl \Curl\, v. i.
1. To contract or bend into curls or ringlets, as hair; to
grow in curls or spirals, as a vine; to be crinkled or
contorted; to have a curly appearance; as, leaves lie
curled on the ground.
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Thou seest it [hair] will not curl by nature.
--Shak.
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2. To move in curves, spirals, or undulations; to contract in
curving outlines; to bend in a curved form; to make a curl
or curls. "Cirling billows." --Dryden.
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Then round her slender waist he curled. --Dryden.
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Curling smokes from village tops are seen. --Pope.
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Gayly curl the waves before each dashing prow.
--Byron.
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He smiled a king of sickly smile, and curled up on
the floor. --Bret Harte.
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3. To play at the game called curling. [Scot.]
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3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 |
Curl \Curl\ (k[^u]rl), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Curled (k[^u]rld);
p. pr. & vb. n. Curling.] [Akin to D. krullen, Dan.
kr["o]lle, dial. Sw. krulla to curl, crisp; possibly akin to
E. crook. Cf. Curl, n., Cruller.]
1. To twist or form into ringlets; to crisp, as the hair.
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But curl their locks with bodkins and with braid.
--Cascoigne.
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2. To twist or make onto coils, as a serpent's body.
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Of his tortuous train,
Curled many a wanton wreath in sight of Eve.
--Milton.
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3. To deck with, or as with, curls; to ornament.
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Thicker than the snaky locks
That curledMeg[ae]ra. --Milton.
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Curling with metaphors a plain intention. --Herbert.
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4. To raise in waves or undulations; to ripple.
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Seas would be pools without the brushing air
To curl the waves. --Dryden.
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5. (Hat Making) To shape (the brim) into a curve.
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4. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 |
Curl \Curl\ (k[^u]rl), n. [Akin to D. krul, Dan. kr["o]lle. See
Curl, v. ]
1. A ringlet, especially of hair; anything of a spiral or
winding form.
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Under a coronet, his flowing hair
In curls on either cheek played. --Milton.
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2. An undulating or waving line or streak in any substance,
as wood, glass, etc.; flexure; sinuosity.
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If the glass of the prisms . . . be without those
numberless waves or curls which usually arise from
the sand holes. --Sir I.
Newton.
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3. A disease in potatoes, in which the leaves, at their first
appearance, seem curled and shrunken.
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Blue curls. (Bot.) See under Blue.
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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 |
arc, arch, bend, bend back, bow, catacaustic, catenary, caustic, circle, cirrus, coil, conchoid, corkscrew, crimp, crisp, crook, curlicue, curve, decurve, deflect, diacaustic, dome, ellipse, embow, entwine, evolute, festoon, flex, frizz, frizzle, gyre, helix, hook, hump, hunch, hyperbola, incurvate, incurve, inflect, involute, kink, lituus, lock, loop, parabola, ponytail, recurve, reflect, reflex, retroflex, ringlet, roll, round, sag, screw, scroll, sinus, spiral, swag, sweep, swirl, tendril, tracery, turn, twine, twirl, twist, vault, volute, volution, vortex, whirl, whorl, wind, wreathe |
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