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| Shopping | The largest selection of CURL products: USA, UK, Canada, Deutschland, France. |
| TV Shop | As seen on TV: beauty, diets, exercise, household, kitchen, personal, vitamins, and other popular TV-products. |
| NOUN | 1 | curl, coil, whorl, roll, curlicue, ringlet, gyre, scroll | A round shape formed by a series of concentric circles (as formed by leaves or flower petals) |
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| 2 | Curl, Robert Curl, Robert F. Curl, Robert Floyd Curl Jr. | American chemist who with Richard Smalley and Harold Kroto discovered fullerenes and opened a new branch of chemistry (born in 1933) | |
| 3 | curl, lock, ringlet, whorl | A strand or cluster of hair | |
| VERB | 1 | curl, curve, kink | Form a curl, curve, or kink |
| 2 | curl, curl up, draw in | Shape one's body into a curl | |
| 3 | curl, coil, loop | Wind around something in coils or loops | |
| 4 | curl, wave | Twist or roll into coils or ringlets | |
| 5 | curl | Play the Scottish game of curling |
| Sounds | ker'l |
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| Rhymes | birle, burl, cowgirl, and 13 more rhymes in erl... |
| Meaning | A round shape formed by a series of concentric circles (as formed by leaves or flower petals). |
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| Synonyms | coil, whorl, roll, curlicue, ringlet, gyre, scroll |
| Broader | round shape |
| Narrower | corolla; calyx; verticil |
| Verbs | curl; curl; curl |
| Meaning | American chemist who with Richard Smalley and Harold Kroto discovered fullerenes and opened a new branch of chemistry (born in 1933). |
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| Synonyms | Robert Curl, Robert F. Curl, Robert Floyd Curl Jr. |
| Instance of | chemist |
| Meaning | A strand or cluster of hair. |
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| Synonyms | lock, ringlet, whorl |
| Part of | hairdo, hairstyle, hair style, coiffure, coif |
| Broader | hair |
| Narrower | sausage curl; forelock; crimp; dreadlock |
| Adjectives | curly |
| Verbs | curl |
| Meaning | Form a curl, curve, or kink. |
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| Pattern | Something ----s |
| Examples | "the cigar smoke curled up at the ceiling" |
| Synonyms | curve, kink |
| Broader | change surface |
| Entails | flex, bend, deform, twist, turn |
| Nouns | curl |
| Meaning | Shape one's body into a curl. |
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| Pattern | Something is ----ing PP; Somebody ----s PP |
| Examples | "She curled farther down under the covers" |
| Synonyms | curl up, draw in |
| Similar to | attract, pull, pull in, draw, draw in |
| Broader | bend, flex |
| Nouns | curl |
| Meaning | Wind around something in coils or loops. |
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| Pattern | Something is ----ing PP; Somebody ----s something PP |
| Model | They curl the wire around the stick; The wires curl around the stick |
| Synonyms | coil, loop |
| Contrary | uncoil |
| Broader | wind, wrap, roll, twine |
| Nouns | curl |
| Meaning | Twist or roll into coils or ringlets. |
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| Pattern | Something ----s; Somebody ----s something; Something ----s something |
| Model | They curl their hair |
| Examples | "curl my hair, please" |
| Synonyms | wave |
| Broader | twist |
| Narrower | crimp, crape, frizzle, frizz, kink up, kink |
| Nouns | curler; curl |
| Meaning | Play the Scottish game of curling. |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s |
| Category | sport, athletics |
| Broader | play |
| Nouns | curling |
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