Curl

[kɜːl] or [kɝl]

解釋/意思:

(noun.) American chemist who with Richard Smalley and Harold Kroto discovered fullerenes and opened a new branch of chemistry (born in 1933).

(verb.) form a curl, curve, or kink; 'the cigar smoke curled up at the ceiling'.

(verb.) play the Scottish game of curling.

(verb.) twist or roll into coils or ringlets; 'curl my hair, please'.

錄入:特德--From WordNet

解釋/意思:

(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.

編輯:洛娜

同義詞及近義詞：

n. [1]. Ringlet.[2]. Sinuosity, undulation, flexure, wave.

v. a. [1]. Crisp, turn in ringlets.[2]. Writhe, wind, twist.[3]. Raise in waves.

v. n. Be bent into curls or waves.

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解釋/意思:

v.t. to twist into ringlets: to coil.—v.i. to shrink into ringlets: to rise in undulations: to writhe: to ripple: to play at the game of curling.—n. a ringlet of hair or what is like it: a wave bending or twist.—adjs. Curled; Curled′-pate (Shak.) having curled hair.—ns. Curl′er one who or that which curls: a player at the game of curling; Curl′icue a fantastic curl; Curl′iewurlie (Scot.) any fantastic round ornament; Curl′iness; Curl′ing a game common in Scotland consisting in hurling heavy smooth stones along a sheet of ice.—ns.pl. Curl′ing ī′rons Curl′ing-tongs an iron instrument used for curling the hair.—n. Curl′ing-stone a heavy stone with a handle used in curling.—adjs. Curl′y having curls: full of curls; Curl′y-head′ed.

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