CURL
\kˈɜːl], \kˈɜːl], \k_ˈɜː_l]\
Definitions of CURL
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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a round shape formed by a series of concentric circles
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shape one's body into a curl; "She curled farther down under the covers"; "She fell and drew in"
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twist or roll into coils or ringlets; "curl my hair, please"
By Princeton University
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a round shape formed by a series of concentric circles
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shape one's body into a curl; "She curled farther down under the covers"; "She fell and drew in"
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twist or roll into coils or ringlets; "curl my hair, please"
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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To twist or form into ringlets; to crisp, as the hair.
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To twist or make onto coils, as a serpent's body.
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To deck with, or as with, curls; to ornament.
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To raise in waves or undulations; to ripple.
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To shape (the brim) into a curve.
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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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To move in curves, spirals, or undulations; to contract in curving outlines; to bend in a curved form; to make a curl or curls.
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To play at the game called curling.
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A ringlet, especially of hair; anything of a spiral or winding form.
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An undulating or waving line or streak in any substance, as wood, glass, etc.; flexure; sinuosity.
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A disease in potatoes, in which the leaves, at their first appearance, seem curled and shrunken.
By Oddity Software
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A ringlet of hair; bend.
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To twist into ringlets; crisp; coil; raise in waves; curve.
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To make into ringlets; become coiled; play at the game of curling.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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To twist into ringlets: to coil.
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To shrink into ringlets: to rise in undulations: to writhe: to rippel: to play at the game of curling.
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A ringlet of hair. or what is like it: a wave, bending, or twist.
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CURLINESS.
By Daniel Lyons
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CURLINESS.
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Curly.
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To curl into ringlets or curves; adorn with curls; take spiral shape.
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Anything coiled or spiral, as a ringlet.
By James Champlin Fernald
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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