(n.) To twist or form into ringlets; to crisp, as the hair.
(n.) To twist or make onto coils, as a serpent's body.
(n.) To deck with, or as with, curls; to ornament.
(n.) To raise in waves or undulations; to ripple.
(n.) To shape (the brim) into a curve.
(v. i.) 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.
(v. i.) To move in curves, spirals, or undulations; to contract in curving outlines; to bend in a curved form; to make a curl or curls.
(v. i.) To play at the game called curling.
(v.) A ringlet, especially of hair; anything of a spiral or winding form.
(v.) An undulating or waving line or streak in any substance, as wood, glass, etc.; flexure; sinuosity.
(v.) A disease in potatoes, in which the leaves, at their first appearance, seem curled and shrunken.
Example Sentences:
(1) Hazard, nominated for the Ballon d’Or earlier in the day, broke away from his industrious defensive running to curl a shot on to the base of the far post early on while Willian struck the crossbar with a free-kick just after the interval.
(2) Peak oxygen uptake was reduced to the greatest extent in patients with heart failure for large muscle mass work (-13% for curl, -32% for one arm and one leg cycle ergometry and -37% for two leg cycle ergometry; p less than 0.05 versus the normal group for the three modes of ergometry).
(3) 4.02am GMT 90 mins Costa Rica get another free kick wide left and they can curl one in.
(4) The Curling's ulcer is a special form of the stress ulcers which occurs in the stomach and duodenum in 2.0-25%.
(5) The Koreans were so well organised that, by half-time, only Maicon's curling from the right shot had tested Ri Myong-guk.
(6) Gough, as the degenerate black sheep of an English family trying to blackmail an American adulterer, would curl a long lip into a sneering smile, which became a characteristic of this fine actor's style.
(7) The home side dominated the opening quarter of an hour as Argentina struggled to find their feet but the tide turned when Di Maria curled a right-footed shot past Claudio Bravo for the equaliser 10 minutes later.
(8) Kroos curls it in from the right, Mertesacker heads it clear again.
(9) There is energy in the room, lots of it, but it’s curled up like a tiger.
(10) The subtle sign of malposition is a slightly curled catheter tip.
(11) In the absence of such accumulations in the cell apices, the reverse curling exhibited by Xenopus ectodermal explants is attributed rather to a separation of the cells' lateral borders.
(12) Liverpool were restricted to shots from the edge of the area throughout the opening half, mainly from Alberto who went close with one curling effort and had fierce drive parried by the goalkeeper Mark Oxley.
(13) Danny takes on a high-pitched, raspy tone when he speaks in Tony's voice, and he curls one of his index fingers up and down in time to Tony's lines.
(14) One test he passed: he could say he loved his country, its values and its spirit without causing a toe-curling cringe.
(15) A syndrome of scanty, fine, curled hair, thin dysplastic nails, taurodontic molars, hypoplastic-hypomature enamel, dysplasia of dentin, and hypohidrosis segregating as an autosomal dominant trait is described in a Japanese family.
(16) The gait of surviving chicks was affected for at least 6 weeks and marked by toes curling under.
(17) Swansea, for whom Jefferson Montero was outstanding, levelled when Gylfi Sigurdsson curled a sublime 25-yard free-kick into the top corner, after Kieran Gibbs had cynically brought down Modou Barrow, the Swansea substitute.
(18) Robert Lewandowski takes Bayern Munich eight clear with win over Köln Read more After Griezmann curled his free-kick over the wall and just inside the post, the 2014 champions were content to cede Sporting the ball and lock down their defence.
(19) Malta, bottom of the group with one point, nearly took a sensational lead just before the half-hour when Alfred Effiong curled a shot just wide of Gianluigi Buffon’s far post.
(20) However, R. leguminosarum 1020 did cause branching, moderate curling and other deformations of root hairs.
Curler
Definition:
(n.) One who, or that which, curls.
(n.) A player at the game called curling.
Example Sentences:
(1) Because space was tight and we wanted to do justice to these things, I put a interview we had with curler Eve Muirhead back a week."
(2) Italy hit the post for a second time, via Diamanti's left-footed curler, and will think they could have spared themselves extra time.
(3) The Spaniard attempted a curler beyond Boaz Myhill, aimed to go inside the goalkeeper’s right post, but it went wide.
(4) If he did, it was wonderful skill - he overlapped in characteristic style and, from a preposteropusly acute angle and with the keeper anticipating a cross, he swirled it into the net at the near post, one of the most improbable, superbly executed curlers since Nelhinho in 1978.
(5) He cleverly took some of Amy Adams's sideboob wardrobe and Bradley Cooper's curlers and turned them into a lesson about how we shouldn't get distracted by "fashionable" issues, by which I strongly suspect he means such silly little trends as believing addiction is an illness or the legalisation of gay marriage, which, as you may recall, he worried could be the right's Stalingrad .
(6) Much prefer the old curler 12.43pm GMT 24 min: Leeds are enjoying a long period of possession now.
(7) A few exchanges later, Birsa finally gets on the ball, cutting inside from the right wing and attempting a curler towards the bottom left.
(8) Premier League 2015-16 review: goal of the season | Gregg Bakowski Read more David Hytner Cuco Martina v Arsenal, a first-time, outside-of-the-boot curler 19 minutes into his full league debut for Southampton.
(9) Nasri cuts inside from the left and, on the edge of the area, unleashes a purler of a curler towards the bottom-right corner.
(10) 57 min Iniesta plays an inviting pass to Villa, whose rudimentary left-footed curler from the edge of the box is easily saved by the sprawling Benaglio.
(11) He tries a curler, but it wafts into the path of Samuel, who clears easily.
(12) Sunderland , though, could easily have gone three up when, having dribbled beyond two markers, Johnson's curler hit a post with Krul beaten.
(13) David Silva striking an upright with an exquisite left-foot curler from the angle of the area was the highlight of an oddly scrappy first half.
(14) His early raids were down the right; now he bombs down the left, cuts inside, and lays off to Hamsik, who attempts a curler in the top-right corner.
(15) 32 min After Russia work the ball nicely around the edge of Spain's area, Pavlyuchenko tries a Whelan-in-the-Milk-Cup-of-1983 curler that Casillas tips round the post.
(16) Gradel found Pugh in space on the left and he sent Jenkinson skidding off into the distance before bending a sumptuous curler past Randolph.
(17) A Marcelo curler beat Hart for a first equaliser before Karim Benzema answered Kolarov's strike and Ronaldo stepped up to grab the glory as the world's second-best player should.
(18) And then I went through a period when I went to sleep with great big curlers.
(19) Lloris had to palm away Campbell’s left-foot curler for the far corner and Giroud had his chances.
(20) It broke to Buchwald – the bloody centre-back – who controlled it calmly 20 yards from goal and then, using Steven as a screen, placed a lovely curler to the left of Shilton that bounced up on to the outside of the post!