curl

Meanings

• a round shape formed by a series of concentric circles (as formed by leaves or flower petals)
• American chemist who with Richard Smalley and Harold Kroto discovered fullerenes and opened a new branch of chemistry (born in 1933)
• a strand or cluster of hair
• form a curl, curve, or kink
  • "the cigar smoke curled up at the ceiling"
• shape one's body into a curl
  • "She curled farther down under the covers"
• wind around something in coils or loops
• twist or roll into coils or ringlets
  • "curl my hair, please"
• play the Scottish game of curling

Synonyms

coil, curl up, curlicue, curve, draw in, gyre, kink, lock, loop, ringlet, Robert Curl, Robert F. Curl, Robert Floyd Curl Jr., roll, scroll, wave, whorl