curl /ˈkɝ(ə)l/
捲曲,捲髮(vt.)弄卷(vi.)捲曲,彎曲
curl
旋度
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旋度 捲曲
Curl v. t. [imp. & p. p. Curled p. pr. & vb. n. Curling.]
1. To twist or form into ringlets; to crisp, as the hair.
But curl their locks with bodkins and with braid. --Cascoigne.
2. To twist or make onto coils, as a serpent's body.
Of his tortuous train,
Curled many a wanton wreath in sight of Eve. --Milton.
3. To deck with, or as with, curls; to ornament.
Thicker than the snaky locks
That curledMegæra. --Milton.
Curling with metaphors a plain intention. --Herbert.
4. To raise in waves or undulations; to ripple.
Seas would be pools without the brushing air
To curl the waves. --Dryden.
5. Hat Making To shape (the brim) into a curve.
Curl, v. i.
1. To contract or bend into curls or ringlets, as hair; to grow in curls or spirals, as a vine; to be crinkled or contorted; to have a curly appearance; as, leaves lie curled on the ground.
Thou seest it [hair] will not curl by nature. --Shak.
2. To move in curves, spirals, or undulations; to contract in curving outlines; to bend in a curved form; to make a curl or curls. “Cirling billows.”
Then round her slender waist he curled. --Dryden.
Curling smokes from village tops are seen. --Pope.
Gayly curl the waves before each dashing prow. --Byron.
He smiled a king of sickly smile, and curled up on the floor. --Bret Harte.
3. To play at the game called curling. [Scot.]
Curl n.
1. A ringlet, especially of hair; anything of a spiral or winding form.
Under a coronet, his flowing hair
In curls on either cheek played. --Milton.
2. An undulating or waving line or streak in any substance, as wood, glass, etc.; flexure; sinuosity.
If the glass of the prisms . . . be without those numberless waves or curls which usually arise from the sand holes. --Sir I. Newton.
3. A disease in potatoes, in which the leaves, at their first appearance, seem curled and shrunken.
Blue curls. Bot. See under Blue.
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curl
n 1: a round shape formed by a series of concentric circles [syn:
coil, whorl, roll, curlicue, ringlet, gyre,
scroll]
2: American chemist who with Richard Smalley and Harold Kroto
discovered fullerenes and opened a new branch of chemistry
(born in 1933) [syn: Robert Curl, Robert F. Curl, Robert
Floyd Curl Jr.]
3: a strand or cluster of hair [syn: lock, ringlet, whorl]
v 1: form a curl, curve, or kink; "the cigar smoke curled up at
the ceiling" [syn: curve, kink]
2: shape one's body into a curl; "She curled farther down under
the covers"; "She fell and drew in" [syn: curl up, draw
in]
3: wind around something in coils or loops [syn: coil, loop]
[ant: uncoil]
4: twist or roll into coils or ringlets; "curl my hair, please"
[syn: wave]
5: play the Scottish game of curling