(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.
Flame
Definition:
(n.) A stream of burning vapor or gas, emitting light and heat; darting or streaming fire; a blaze; a fire.
(n.) Burning zeal or passion; elevated and noble enthusiasm; glowing imagination; passionate excitement or anger.
(n.) Ardor of affection; the passion of love.
(n.) A person beloved; a sweetheart.
(n.) To burn with a flame or blaze; to burn as gas emitted from bodies in combustion; to blaze.
(n.) To burst forth like flame; to break out in violence of passion; to be kindled with zeal or ardor.
(v. t.) To kindle; to inflame; to excite.
Example Sentences:
(1) On Friday night, in a stadium built in an area once deemed an urban wasteland, the flame that has journeyed from Athens to every corner of these islands will light the fire that launches the London Olympics of 2012.
(2) They were like some great show, the gas squeezing up from the depths of the oil well to be consumed in flame against the intense black horizon, like some great dragon.
(3) He's called out for his lack of imagination in a stinging review by a leading food critic (Oliver Platt) and - after being introduced to Twitter by his tech-savvy son (Emjay Anthony) - accidentally starts a flame war that will lead to him losing his job.
(4) He was burnt alive along with three customers as flames from the car set his carpet shop ablaze.
(5) Likewise, Merkel's Germany seems to be replicating the same erroneous policy as that of 1930, when a devotion to fiscal orthodoxy plunged the Weimar Republic into mass discontent that fuelled the flames of National Socialism.
(6) Three brands of Ca supplement, a laboratory-reagent grade CaCO3 and a certified reference material (International Atomic Energy Agency H-5 Animal Bone) wee analysed for Cd and Pb by four different analytical techniques, viz., anodic stripping voltammetry inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry, flame atomic absorption spectrometry and electrothermal atomic absorption spectrometry.
(7) Demolition of a steel railway bridge was carried out by nine workers using flame-torch cutting.
(8) Analytically, the major products formed initially from pTFE at 700 degrees C under either condition (flame or cup furnace) are similar but they disappear rapidly in the presence of continuous heat.
(9) The main lesions of the tegument included indistinct of the matrix, vacuolization and peeling, while vacuolization of perinuclear cytoplasma in tegumental cells, focus lysis in muscle bundles, and destruction in collection ducts and flame cells were also seen.
(10) Using the Perkin Elmer flame photometer sodium and potassium concentrations have been measured in muscle fibers from the m. ileofibularis of Rana temporaria.
(11) In 1998, when Jeffrey Archer's son, James, and his trader friends, known as the Flaming Ferraris, took a stretch limo to their bank's Christmas party, the Sunday Telegraph could barely contain itself.
(12) This team flamed out early in the last two tournaments despite big expectations.
(13) Urine is separated by reversed-phase HPLC and metal-species are detected on-line by flame-AAS (Ca, Mg, Zn, Cu and Fe) or by ETAAS in fractions (Pb, Cd, Sn).
(14) Liam Fox, regarded as the flame-keeper of the Tory right, would also be a prime target for the Lib Dems.
(15) The propazine was extracted from the powder with chloroform, with dieldrin as an internal standard, and chromatographed on Carbowax 20M, using a flame ionization detector.
(16) Flame burns due to domestic accidents were the aetiological factors in the majority of patients; 84 (87.5 per cent) of those who died sustained flame burns, although flame burns were only responsible for 46.6 per cent of all burns cases admitted.
(17) While there are similarities between the morphology of the central terminals of cutaneous low-threshold mechanoreceptors in the rat and those previously described in the cat (for example, the longitudinally continuous arrangement of the mediolaterally restricted flame-shaped HFA arborizations and the discontinuous RA arborizations arising from a dorsally located axon), there are also some major differences: the large number of HFA arbors extending to lamina IIi and to lamina IV rather than being restricted to lamina III, the deeper location of the RA arbors (in laminae IV and V rather than lamina III),(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 400 WORDS)
(18) When Black regained consciousness, he made his way down the length of the plane and tried to free the pilot from his seat as flames began to engulf the fuselage.
(19) In some instances where direct coupling was impossible, owing to the physical properties of the effluent or eluent, conventional analyses of chromatographically separated iron species were performed by flame AAS.
(20) The ion content of heart tissue was measured with flame spectrometer after the decomposition of myocardium by Lumatom tissue solubizer.