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How to pronounce curl in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms coil, loop
Type of wind, roll, wrap, twine
Type Words
Synonyms curve, kink
Type of change surface


the cigar smoke curled up at the ceiling.
Type Words
Synonyms coil, curlicue, gyre, ringlet, roll, scroll, whorl
Type of round shape
Has types calyx, verticil, corolla
Type Words
Synonyms robert curl, robert f. curl, robert floyd curl jr.
Type Words
Synonyms wave
Type of twist
Has types crimp, kink, crape, frizz, frizzle, kink up
Derivation curler


curl my hair, please.
Type Words
Synonyms lock, ringlet, whorl
Type of hair
Has types sausage curl, crimp, dreadlock, forelock
Derivation curly
Type Words
Synonyms curl up, draw in
Type of flex, bend
Verb group draw in, draw, pull, pull in, attract


She curled farther down under the covers.
Type Words
Type of play
Derivation curling

Examples of curl

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There was also a giant pillow ball I was supposed to curl forward over to sleep.
From the travel.uk.msn.com
The trick is to keep it well conditioned and work with the curl, not against it.
From the cnn.com
Morgan-Sassman says a basic biceps curl, for instance, is enhanced using a band.
From the sacbee.com
Like the little girl with the curl, when Dallas is good, it is very good indeed.
From the charlotteobserver.com
The rank stripes had the usual Royal Navy curl, and were surmounted by an eagle.
From the en.wikipedia.org
Cheese puffs are a puffed-corn snack that also comes in ball and curl varieties.
From the time.com
Like he says, when you get pushed into a corner, you can either swing or curl up.
From the post-gazette.com
Am I telling you to curl up on your couch with your laptop as you would on a 747?
From the online.wsj.com
The corners of his mouth still curl into an inscrutable grin every now and again.
From the telegraph.co.uk
More examples
  • Coil: a round shape formed by a series of concentric circles (as formed by leaves or flower petals)
  • Form a curl, curve, or kink; "the cigar smoke curled up at the ceiling"
  • American chemist who with Richard Smalley and Harold Kroto discovered fullerenes and opened a new branch of chemistry (born in 1933)
  • Curl up: shape one's body into a curl; "She curled farther down under the covers"; "She fell and drew in"
  • Coil: wind around something in coils or loops
  • Lock: a strand or cluster of hair
  • CURL is a computer software project providing a library and command-line tool for transferring data using various protocols. The cURL project produces two products, libcurl and cURL. It was first released in 1997.
  • Curl, in football, is spin on the ball which will make it swerve, or bend, when kicked. This is imparted largely through almost slicing across the ball, and utilisation of either the inside or outside foot depending on which direction the ball should bend towards. ...
  • In vector calculus, the curl (or rotor) is a vector operator that describes the infinitesimal rotation of a 3-dimensional vector field. At every point in the field, the curl is represented by a vector. The attributes of this vector (length and direction) characterize the rotation at that point.