Definitions for curling

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curling curl·ing

Spelling: [kur-ling]

IPA: /ˈkɜr lɪŋ/

Curling is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 118 anagrams from letters in curling (cgilnru).

Definitions for curling

noun

1. a game played on ice in which two teams of four players each compete in sliding large stones toward a mark in the center of a circle. Compare house (def 20).
2. a coil or ringlet of hair.
3. anything of a spiral or curved shape, as a lettuce leaf, wood shaving, etc.
4. a coil.
5. the act of curling or state of being curled.
6. Plant Pathology. the distortion, fluting, or puffing of a leaf, resulting from the unequal development of its two sides. a disease so characterized.
7. 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.
8. 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 curling

1610-20; perhaps curl + -ing¹, from the motion imparted to the sliding stones

Examples for curling

I had just gotten my braces off and was learning how to tame my hair with a curling iron.

Be there any manner of irons, Jennet, for crisping or curling the hair?

The dogs were curling up in the wind like leaves before a blaze.

The curling stones weigh over 40 pounds, and delivering one to the house requires strong knees.

From the chimney of the cabin a thin wreath of smoke was curling.

Sweet smoke was curling upward, and the room rang with a hymn.

My sisters opened a beauty parlor in their bedroom, curling hair with crisscrossed bobby pins and calling it a perm.

With one hand hipping his saber and the other curling his mustaches, he smiled at her.

The men of Team Norway's curling Team wear funny-looking pants.

The curling sheet is "more or less" 15 feet wide and 140 feet long.