Definitions for curl

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Spelling: [kurl]

IPA: /kɜrl/

Curl is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 23 anagrams from letters in curl (clru).

Definitions for curl

noun

1. a coil or ringlet of hair.
2. anything of a spiral or curved shape, as a lettuce leaf, wood shaving, etc.
3. a coil.
4. the act of curling or state of being curled.
5. Plant Pathology. the distortion, fluting, or puffing of a leaf, resulting from the unequal development of its two sides. a disease so characterized.
6. Also called rotation. Mathematics. a vector obtained from a given vector by taking its cross product with the vector whose coordinates are the partial derivative operators with respect to each coordinate. the operation that produces this vector.
7. Weightlifting. an underhand forearm lift in which the barbell, held against the thighs, is raised to the chest and then lowered while keeping the legs, upper arms, and shoulders taut. a similar forearm lift using a dumbbell or dumbbells, usually from the side of the body to the shoulders.

Idioms

1. curl one's lip, to assume or display an expression of contempt:
2. curl one's / the hair, to fill with horror or fright; shock:

Verb phrases

1. curl up, to sit or lie down cozily:

verb (used with object)

1. to form into coils or ringlets, as the hair.
2. to form into a spiral or curved shape; coil.
3. to adorn with, or as with, curls or ringlets.

verb (used without object)

1. to grow in or form curls or ringlets, as the hair.
2. to become curved or undulated.
3. to coil.
4. to play at the game of curling.
5. to progress in a curving direction or path; move in a curving or spiraling way:

Origin of curl

1400-50; late Middle English, apparently back formation from curled, metathetic variant of Middle English crulled (past participle) crul (adj.); compare Middle Dutch crullen to curl,

Examples for curl

She looked at him in amazement; then her lips began to curl.

"No, of course not," said Mrs. Garth, with a curl of the lip.

The smoke from his cigarette will curl around his head and nothing else near him will move, and you will wonder what he sees.

I see again the curl on the lip of a certain kind of girl-reader!

Or to put it another way, sweeping helps make the stone not curl.

Jonathan Coulton's song "curl," with footage of Stephen Colbert trying out for the 2010 U.S. curling Team.

Her hair was damp and out of curl, as though she had just had a bath.

The only surprise was the left collar point, which was allowed to curl.

The inner petals are shorter and curve and curl toward the center.

Poetry is no longer something we curl up to with a cup of tea.