curl

noun

  1. 1

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

  2. 2

    a strand or cluster of hair

  3. 3

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

verb

  1. 1

    form a curl, curve, or kink

    the cigar smoke curled up at the ceiling

  2. 2

    play the Scottish game of curling

  3. 3

    twist or roll into coils or ringlets

    curl my hair, please

  4. 4

    wind around something in coils or loops

  5. 5

    shape one's body into a curl

    She curled farther down under the covers

    She fell and drew in

Synonyms

Also useful for “curl”:Unscrambler