curl
see also: Curl
Pronunciation Noun
Curl
Proper noun
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see also: Curl
Pronunciation Noun
curl (plural curls)
- A piece or lock of curling hair; a ringlet.
- A curved stroke or shape.
- 1995, John Curtis, Julian Reade, & Dominique Collon, Art and Empire: Treasures from Assyria in the British Museum, page 184:
- […] the backs of their necks and their forelegs are decorated with curls and their necks and bodies are covered with fine, undulating lines.
- 1995, John Curtis, Julian Reade, & Dominique Collon, Art and Empire: Treasures from Assyria in the British Museum, page 184:
- A spin making the trajectory of an object curve.
- 1909, Harold Horsfall Hilton, The Six Handicap Golfer's Companion, page 38:
- 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 […]
- 1909, Harold Horsfall Hilton, The Six Handicap Golfer's Companion, page 38:
- (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.
- 2007 (Jan/Feb), Jon Crosby, "Your Winter Muscle Makeover", Men's Health, page 54:
- Now do a curl and an overhead press, keeping your palms facing in.
- 2007 (Jan/Feb), Jon Crosby, "Your Winter Muscle Makeover", Men's Health, page 54:
- (calculus) The vector field denoting the rotationality of a given vector field.
- The curl of the vector field \vec{F}(x,y,z) is the vector field \operatorname{curl}\,\vec{F} \equiv \vec{\nabla}\times\vec{F}=\left( \frac{\partial F_z}{\partial y} - \frac{\partial F_y}{\partial z}, \frac{\partial F_x}{\partial z} - \frac{\partial F_z}{\partial x}, \frac{\partial F_y}{\partial x} - \frac{\partial F_x}{\partial y} \right).
- (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.
- (music, chiefly, lutherie) The contrasting light and dark figure seen in wood used for stringed instrument making; the flame.
- The one-piece back is of a medium curl.
- (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.
- (weightlifting exercise) extension
- French: boucle
- German: Locke
- Italian: riccio, ricciolo, boccolo
- Portuguese: caracol
- Russian: ло́кон
- Spanish: rizo, bucle
- Italian: arricciamento
- Russian: завито́к
- Italian: voluta
- Spanish: flexión
- French: rotationnel
- Italian: rotazione
- Russian: ро́тор
- Italian: arricciamento, accartocciamento
curl (curls, present participle curling; past and past participle curled)
- (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.
- I curl at my local club every weekend.
- (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.
- 1977, Agatha Christie, chapter 4, in An Autobiography, part II, London: Collins, →ISBN:
- 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; […].
- To deck with, or as if with, curls; to ornament.
- 1667, John Milton, “Book 7”, in Paradise Lost. A Poem Written in Ten Books, London: Printed [by Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […] [a]nd by Robert Boulter […] [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], OCLC 228722708 ↗; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: The Text Exactly Reproduced from the First Edition of 1667: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, OCLC 230729554 ↗:
- Thicker than the snakie locks / That curld Megæra.
- Curling with metaphors a plain intention.
- To raise in waves or undulations; to ripple.
- Seas would be pools without the brushing air / To curl the waves.
- (hat-making) To shape (the brim of a hat) into a curve.
- (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
- (to make into a curl or spiral) straighten, uncoil, unroll
- (to assume the shape of a curl or spiral) straighten, uncoil, unroll
- Russian: вить
- Portuguese: encaracolar
- Russian: ви́ться
Curl
Proper noun
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