curl (n.)

  1. a round shape formed by a series of concentric circles (as formed by leaves or flower petals)

    [ Syn: coil , whorl , roll , curlicue , ringlet , gyre , scroll ]

  2. American chemist who with Richard Smalley and Harold Kroto discovered fullerenes and opened a new branch of chemistry (born in 1933)

    [ Syn: curl , robert curl , robert f. curl , robert floyd curl jr. ]

  3. a strand or cluster of hair

    [ Syn: lock , ringlet , whorl ]

    curl (v.)

  1. form a curl, curve, or kink; the cigar smoke curled up at the ceiling

    [ Syn: curve , kink ]

  2. shape ones body into a curl; She curled farther down under the covers; She fell and drew in

    [ Syn: curl up , draw in ]

  3. wind around something in coils or loops

    [ Syn: coil , loop ]

  4. twist or roll into coils or ringlets; curl my hair, please

    [ Syn: wave ]

  5. play the Scottish game of curling

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