What's the difference between curl and waviness?

Curl


Definition:

  • (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.

Waviness


Definition:

  • (n.) The quality or state of being wavy.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In MTC cases, a strong labelling was present over two types of aggregates: one composed of rigid, criss-crossing fibrils 7-10 nm in diameter, suggestive of amyloid, and the other consisting of loosely arranged fibrils, 4-7 nm in width, often wavy or poorly defined.
  • (2) Wavy fiber and colliquative myocytolysis of non-specific ischemic lesions were seen only microscopically in both peripheral and subendocardial areas of infarcted foci.
  • (3) Moreover, the basement membrane of the seminiferous tubule showed wavy lamellae and infolding to the seminiferous epithelium.
  • (4) Twenty three dogs were subjected to periods of ischemia, from 30 minutes to 4 hours; wavy fibers were present in 87% and 91% of the ischemic and non-ischemic samples respectively.
  • (5) A wavy arrangement of mitochondria, fragmentation and stacks of mitochondrial cristae were observed in 20-week-old SHR.
  • (6) The lines then take on a wavy and oscillating appearance, which is followed by scintillation of the pattern.
  • (7) Hunter-Schreger bands of cats circumscribed the teeth in relatively straight segments, but these bands showed pronounced waviness in dog teeth.
  • (8) The outer membrane appeared wavy with distortion of its tripartite structure.
  • (9) The collagenous fibers were arranged in longitudinal bundles, straight when stretched and wavy when unstretched, with a delicate network of fine elastic fibers coursing in all directions.
  • (10) We conclude that a rapidly growing renal mass in a young patient (less than 35 years old) that is shown to be complex and cystic by CT or sonography and that is hypovascular with fine, wavy neovascularity on arteriography is suggestive of adult Wilms tumor (75-80%).
  • (11) Although no characteristic findings indicative of neurogenic differentiation could be confirmed with anti-S-100-protein, a fair number of positive cells were seen in the area where the tumor cells were loosely arranged and displayed a wavy pattern.
  • (12) The first mesothelial mitoses appeared: in the first series (I) of experiments - in 24 h, in the second series (II) of experiments - 21 h. Further, proliferation of the mesothelium appeared in different parts of the tissue with various intencity and was of wavy character.
  • (13) The literature concerning these effects is reviewed and several experiments are reported which examined the apparent waviness and scintillating disappearances.
  • (14) And I don't mean being a wavy-haired, wealthy francophone from Massachusetts (although, in this climate, that's burden enough for a Republican nominee).
  • (15) HII is the more recently described multibranched, wavy-axoned horizontal cell.
  • (16) In addition to severe atrophy and degeneration of the generalized striated muscles and many foci of laminar necrosis of the cerebral cortex, the following abnormalities were observed: 1) hypertrophy of the myocardium, 2) fatty change of the liver, 3) focal sclerosis of the glomeruli and dilatation of the tubules of the kidneys, 4) hyalinous degeneration of the Langerhans' islands of the pancreas and 5) wavy change of the smooth muscle fibers of the muscularis propria of the gastrointestinal tract.
  • (17) The change most characteristic of the senescence of the retinal pigment epithelium was found to be the appearance of wavy undulating 12nm wide filaments having a periodicity of about 80nm after the 12th month.
  • (18) The wavy suture ring of the prosthesis makes it "low profile".
  • (19) Ultrastructurally, the primary cyst wall shows sloping villi with irregular wavy outlines.
  • (20) The wavy character of sympathectomy is thought to reflect integral behavior of the nervous cells subpopulation in the course of development of homeostatic reactions.

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