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curl

English

  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)
  4. 🔊 form a curl, curve, or kink
    “the cigar smoke curled up at the ceiling”
  5. 🔊 play the Scottish game of curling
  6. 🔊 twist or roll into coils or ringlets
    “curl my hair, please”
  7. 🔊 shape one's body into a curl
    “She curled farther down under the covers”
  8. 🔊 wind around something in coils or loops

Spanish

  1. 🔊 crespo curl
  2. 🔊 rotacional curl
  3. 🔊 crespar to curl
  4. 🔊 ensortijar to curl
  5. 🔊 frisar to curl, crimp
  6. 🔊 rizo curl, lock (of hair)
  7. 🔊 rizar to curl, crinkle, crisp

Similar words

lock ringlet whorl robert curl robert f. curl robert floyd curl jr. coil whorl roll curlicue ringlet gyre scroll curve kink wave coil loop curl up draw in arc arch bend bend back