Curl

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  • intransitive verb. To twist (the hair, for example) into ringlets or coils.
  • intransitive verb. To form into a coiled or spiral shape.
  • intransitive verb. To decorate with coiled or spiral shapes.
  • intransitive verb. To raise and turn under (the upper lip), as in snarling or showing scorn.
  • intransitive verb. To lift (a weight) by performing a curl.
  • intransitive verb. To form ringlets or coils.
  • intransitive verb. To assume a spiral or curved shape.
  • intransitive verb. To move in a curve or spiral.
  • intransitive verb. To engage in curling.
  • noun. Something with a spiral or coiled shape.
  • noun. A coil or ringlet of hair.
  • noun. A treatment in which the hair is curled.
  • noun. undefined
  • noun. The act of curling.
  • noun. The state of being curled.
  • noun. A weightlifting exercise using one or two hands, in which a weight held at the thigh or to the side of the body is raised to the chest or shoulder and then lowered without moving the upper arms, shoulders, or back.
  • noun. Any of various plant diseases in which the leaves roll up.
  • phrasal verb. To assume a position with the legs drawn up.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To turn, bend, or form into ringlets, as the hair.
  • To dress or adorn with or as with curls; make up the hair of into curls.
  • To bring or form into the spiral shape of a ringlet or curl; in general, to make curves, turns, or undulations in or on.
  • To take the form of curls or ringlets, as hair.
  • Hence To assume any similar spiral shape; in general, to become curved, bent, or undulated: often with up.
  • To turn and twist about; writhe; squirm.
  • To play at curling. See curling.
  • noun. A ringlet of hair.
  • noun. Hence Something having a similar spiral form; any undulation, sinuosity, or flexure.
  • noun. Specifically, a winding or circling in the grain of wood.
  • noun. A disease of peach-trees which causes great distortion of the leaves. It is caused by an ascomycetous fungus, Taphrina deformans. See Taphrina.
  • noun. In mathematics, the vector part of the quaternion resulting from the performance of the operation i.d/dx + j.d/dy + k.d/dz on any vector function iX + jY + kZ.
  • In cricket, to cause (the ball) to curve in the air: said of the bowler.
  • In cricket, to curve in the air: said of the ball.
  • noun. A disease of potatoes in which the shoots become curled up and deformed. It is attributed to chlorosis.
  • noun. A disease of other plants in which the leaves curl up.—Leaf-curl. See leaf-curl.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. A ringlet, especially of hair; anything of a spiral or winding form.
  • noun. An undulating or waving line or streak in any substance, as wood, glass, etc.; flexure; sinuosity.
  • noun. A disease in potatoes, in which the leaves, at their first appearance, seem curled and shrunken.
  • noun. See under Blue.
  • transitive verb. To twist or form into ringlets; to crisp, as the hair.
  • transitive verb. To twist or make onto coils, as a serpent's body.
  • transitive verb. To deck with, or as with, curls; to ornament.
  • transitive verb. To raise in waves or undulations; to ripple.
  • transitive verb. To shape (the brim) into a curve.
  • intransitive verb. To contract or bend into curls or ringlets, as hair; to grow in curls or spirals, as a vine; to be crinkled or contorted; to have a curly appearance.
  • intransitive verb. To move in curves, spirals, or undulations; to contract in curving outlines; to bend in a curved form; to make a curl or curls.
  • intransitive verb. To play at the game called curling.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A piece or lock of curling hair; a ringlet.
  • noun. A curved stroke or shape.
  • noun. A spin making the trajectory of an object curve.
  • noun. Movement of a moving rock away from a straight line.
  • Word Usage
    "Currently when the server sends the 401 and closes the connection the perl client doesn't re-try with the auth credentials. code snippet with curl options: my $curl = WWW:: Curl:: Easy-new; $curl - setopt (CURLOPT_HTTPGET, 1); $curl-setopt (CURLOPT_HTTPVERION_1_1, 1); $curl - setopt (CURLOPT_HTTPAUTH, CURLAUTH_DIGEST); $curl-setopt (CURLOPT_USERPWD, "admin: system");"
    Antonyms
    Words with the opposite meaning
    extension  
    cross-reference
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    bend  change surface  chemist  flex  play  
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Berle  Earl  Earle  Erl  Merle  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    beard  braid  brow  cheek  collar  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    arc  arch  bend  bend back  bow  
    verb-form
    curled  curling  curls