(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.
Frizzle
Definition:
(v. t.) To curl or crisp, as hair; to friz; to crinkle.
(n.) A curl; a lock of hair crisped.
Example Sentences:
(1) The function of the frizzled (fz) locus in Drosophilia melanogaster is required to coordinate the cytoskeletons of epidermal cells to produce a parallel array of cuticular hairs and bristles (for example on the wild-type wing all hairs point towards the distal tip).
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(3) The nerve patterns formed in the mutants prickled, inturned, and frizzled, however, were largely normal, indicating that in these cases the polarity of the cuticular structures produced by the epithelial cells is altered without any effect on the polarity of the associated axons.
(4) The function of the frizzled (fz) locus is required to coordinate the cytoskeletons of pupal epidermal cells so that a parallel array of cuticular hairs and bristles is produced.
(5) The function of the frizzled (fz) locus is required for the development of a parallel array of bristles and hairs on the adult cuticle of Drosophila melanogaster.
(6) The frizzled (fz) locus of Drosophila encodes a protein (Fz) with a seven-transmembrane-domain profile characteristic of G-protein-coupled receptors.
(7) The modifications include naked necks, leg feathering, frizzle feathering, silky feathering, fat quills, and feather abnormalities caused by behavioural hypertrophies.