Noun
- 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
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{displaystyle {rm {{curl};}}}
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{displaystyle {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.
- (music, chiefly lutherie) The contrasting light and dark figure seen in wood used for stringed instrument making; the flame.
- (American football) A pattern where the receiver appears to be running a fly pattern but after a set number of steps or yards quickly stops and turns around, looking for a pass.
Synonyms
- (lock of curling hair): ringlet
- (curved stroke or shape): curlicue, curve, flourish, loop, spiral
Antonyms
- (weightlifting exercise): extension
Exemple
- […] she took it down, looked long and fondly at it, then, shaking her curls about her face, as if to hide the act, pressed it to her lips and seemed to weep over it in an uncontrollable paroxysm of tender grief.
- Serene, smiling, enigmatic, she faced him with no fear whatever showing in her dark eyes. […] She put back a truant curl from her forehead where it had sought egress to the world, and looked him full in the face now, drawing a deep breath which caused the round of her bosom to lift the lace at her throat.
- The face which emerged was not reassuring. […]. He was not a mongol but there was a deficiency of a sort there, and it was not made more pretty by a latter-day hair cut which involved eccentrically long elf-locks and oiled black curls.
- […] the backs of their necks and their forelegs are decorated with curls and their necks and bodies are covered with fine, undulating lines.
- It is possible to use the wind which blows from the left to the right by playing well into the wind with the slightest bit of curl on the ball […]
- Now do a curl and an overhead press, keeping your palms facing in.
- In 2D, when Q is a polygonal domain, the singularities of Type disappear because ψ is the scalar curl of u and is such that its vectorial curl is zero.
- The curl of the vector field
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{displaystyle operatorname {curl} ,{vec {F}}equiv {vec {nabla }}times {vec {F}}=left}
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- These potatoes, however, planted the next year, have a fair yield, untouched by the curl.
- The one-piece back is of a medium curl.
Verb
- (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.
- To twist or form (the hair, etc.) into ringlets.
- To deck with, or as if with, curls; to ornament.
- To raise in waves or undulations; to ripple.
- (hat-making) To shape (the brim of a hat) into a curve.
Synonyms
- (to make into a curl or spiral): arch, coil, roll up
- (to assume the shape of a curl or spiral): coil, roll up
- (to move in curves): curve, spiral
Antonyms
- (to make into a curl or spiral): straighten, uncoil, unroll
- (to assume the shape of a curl or spiral): straighten, uncoil, unroll
Exemple
- He picked the ball up about forty yards out on the left wing, left a trail of Arsenal defenders in his wake, and curled the ball round Geoff Barnett as he came right out into the far corner.
- Campbell should have scored but missed with a header from four yards at the far post before Taylor-Fletcher came close to adding a second when he curled an effort over the stranded Reina, who should have been punished for a poor clearance.
- She curls her spine; she wedges a pillow between her knees.
- It seemed to me that Mr. St. John’s under lip protruded, and his upper lip curled a moment.
- Clouds curled down from the mountains.
- The ball curled to a stop within six inches of the hole.
- I curl at my local club every weekend.
- When curling the weight, bring the barbell up toward the chin, then return it to its starting position. Keep your elbows and upper arms as immobile as possible to isolate the biceps.
- But curl their locks with bodkins and with braids
- There was also hairdressing: hairdressing, too, really was hairdressing in those times — no running a comb through it and that was that. It was curled, frizzed, waved, put in curlers overnight, waved with hot tongs; […].
- Thicker than the snakie locks / That curld Megæra.
- Curling with metaphors a plain intention.
- Seas would be pools without the brushing air / To curl the waves.
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Noun
- (US) A permanent.
- (Britain) A permanent wave.
Verb
- To give hair a perm, using heat, chemicals etc.
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