curl
noun
- 1
American chemist who with Richard Smalley and Harold Kroto discovered fullerenes and opened a new branch of chemistry (born in 1933)
- 2
a strand or cluster of hair
- 3
a round shape formed by a series of concentric circles (as formed by leaves or flower petals)
verb
- 1
form a curl, curve, or kink
the cigar smoke curled up at the ceiling
- 2
play the Scottish game of curling
- 3
twist or roll into coils or ringlets
curl my hair, please
- 4
wind around something in coils or loops
- 5
shape one's body into a curl
She curled farther down under the covers
She fell and drew in
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