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Noun curl has 3 senses
- coil, whorl, roll, curl, curlicue, ringlet, gyre, scroll - a round shape formed by a series of concentric circles
--1 is a kind of round shape
--1 has particulars: corolla; calyx; verticil
- Curl, Robert Curl, Robert F. Curl, Robert Floyd Curl Jr. - American chemist who with Richard Smalley and Harold Kroto discovered fullerenes and opened a new branch of chemistry (born in 1933)
--2 is a kind of chemist
- lock, curl, ringlet, whorl - a strand or cluster of hair
--3 is a kind of hair
--3 is a part of hairdo, hair style, coiffure
--3 has particulars: sausage curl; forelock; crimp; dreadlock
Verb curl has 5 senses
- curl, curve, kink - form a curl, curve, or kink; "the cigar smoke curled up at the ceiling"
--1 is one way to change surface
Sample sentence:
Something ----s
- curl up, curl, draw in - shape one's body into a curl; "She curled farther down under the covers"; "She fell and drew in"
--2 is one way to bend, flex
Sample sentences:
Something is ----ing PP
Somebody ----s PP
- coil, loop, curl - wind around something in coils or loops
--3 is one way to wind, wrap, roll, twine
Sample sentences:
They curl the wire around the stick
The wires curl around the stick
- curl, wave - twist or roll into coils or ringlets; "curl my hair, please"
--4 is one way to twist
Sample sentence:
They curl their hair
- curl - play the Scottish game of curling
--5 is one way to play
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s
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