(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.
Uncoil
Definition:
(v. t.) To unwind or open, as a coil of rope.
Example Sentences:
(1) The molecule uncoils above pH 11.5 in a time-dependent fashion.
(2) The two strands of the amino acid helix exhibit large differential temperature factors, suggesting partial uncoiling or melting of the helix.
(3) In 14 scoliotic children, aged 5.9-18.4 years, a close agreement was found for predictions of VC from arm span, uncoiled stature and hand and foot length.
(4) It is suggested that loss of native secondary structure, especially uncoiling of helical regions, is crucial to permit attack by these enzymes.
(5) When microtubules became uncoiled, no changes in the major components (alpha- and beta-tubulin, IEF-51K, or actin) were found.
(6) Watching her on stage, as she coiled and uncoiled her impossible limbs, I had become transfixed by the question of what was going on in her head while she danced.
(7) What the west faces here is the uncoiling of two giant springs.
(8) Two geometric models of stretch, called unfolding and uncoiling, were considered.
(9) It is in the uncoiled tail sequence that the greatest number of differences in amino acids sequence between MHC-A and B were found, which allowed generation of isoform-specific antibodies.
(10) After the salt concentration was lowered to 0.15 M NaCl, the nucleoids uncoiled in beaded fibers in which RNA-mediated structural domains could be distinguished.
(11) The competition for Ca(2+) can influence the state of the network filaments which uncoil on binding Ca(2+) and affect differently the conformational state of synapses and membrane depending on the S100 protein content.
(12) However, the reverse was observed for DNA single-strand breaks (SSBs, measured by alkaline filter elution or hydroxylapatite uncoiling).
(13) In children with scoliosis, arm span or an "uncoiled" stature derived from the observed stature and the degree of spinal angulation have been used to predict expected values.
(14) This approach may be an alternative to the use of arm span or uncoiled stature to predict VC in children with scoliosis.
(15) Immunoblotting and cDNA cloning studies reveal that the autoantigens of the multisystem autoimmune diseases are important proteins involved in nucleic acid metabolism, including tRNA charging, intron splicing, DNA uncoiling, and RNA polymerase co-factors.
(16) Similar to other nonsarcomeric MHC IIs, there is a short uncoiled tail sequence at the carboxyl terminus of the molecule.
(17) Most importantly, we must enact systemic changes that will uncoil the serpent of corruption that is suffocating our development.
(18) It is also possible that the altered banding pattern in these two cases is due to the influence of local sequences on the staining or uncoiling properties of the chromatin.
(19) When inhibitors of cellular DNA, RNA or protein synthesis are added to the growth medium of human lymphoid cells in G2 phase, these agents produce, within narrow ranges of concentrations, G banded or uncoiled chromosomes in the treated metaphase cells.
(20) The variation in the biological activity was attributed to the morphological differences between these alginic acid components and it is suggested that the degree of uncoiling of the polyguluronate chain in water is greater than that of the polymannuronate chain, thus making the carboxylate ions more accessible to strontium.