Overview of noun curl

The noun curl has 3 senses

• coil, whorl, roll, curl, curlicue, ringlet, gyre, scroll -- (a round shape formed by a series of concentric circles (as formed by leaves or flower petals))


• 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))


• lock, curl, ringlet, whorl -- (a strand or cluster of hair)

Overview of verb curl

The verb curl has 5 senses

• curl, curve, kink -- (form a curl, curve, or kink; "the cigar smoke curled up at the ceiling")


• curl up, curl, draw in -- (shape one's body into a curl; "She curled farther down under the covers"; "She fell and drew in")


• coil, loop, curl -- (wind around something in coils or loops)


• curl, wave -- (twist or roll into coils or ringlets; "curl my hair, please")


• curl -- (play the Scottish game of curling)