curl

Significat (English)

Noun

1. A curving piece or lock of hair; a ringlet.
2. A curved stroke or shape.
3. A spin making the trajectory of an object curve.
4. Movement of a moving rock away from a straight line.
5. Any exercise performed by bending the arm, wrist, or leg on the exertion against resistance, especially those that train the biceps.
6. The vector field denoting the rotationality of a given vector field.
7. The vector operator, denoted rm curl; or ⃑∇×⃑(·), that generates this field.
8. Any of various diseases of plants causing the leaves or shoots to curl up; often specifically the potato curl.
9. The contrasting light and dark figure seen in wood used for stringed instrument making; the flame.
10. A pattern where the receiver appears to be running a fly pattern but after a set number of steps or yards quickly stops and turns around, looking for a pass.
11. A thin, curved piece of chocolate used as decoration.

Verb

1. To cause to move in a curve.
2. To make into a curl or spiral.
3. To assume the shape of a curl or spiral.
4. To move in curves.
5. To take part in the sport of curling.
6. To exercise by bending the arm, wrist, or leg on the exertion against resistance, especially of the biceps.
7. To twist or form (the hair, etc.) into ringlets.
8. To deck with, or as if with, curls; to ornament.
9. To raise in waves or undulations; to ripple.
10. To shape (the brim of a hat) into a curve.

Synonyms

ringlet

twist

coil

lock

🔒

curve

wind

crimp

swirl

spiral

wave

👋

roll

whorl

loop

➿

bend

curl up

frizz

twine

frizzle

crisp

whirl

twirl

wreathe

contort

scroll

📜

curlicue

huddle

warp

crinkle

turn

kink

spin

lock of hair

shrivel

ruffle

roll up

curling

do

draw in

eddy

gyre

helix

ring

💍

rotation

screw

shirr

snake

🐍

tress

undulation

curly hair

wind around

sleep curled up

flutter

knit

knot

🪢

flanging

entwine

lovelock

meander

morsel

nobble

notch

perm

pilfer

pin up

pucker

reel

revolve

ridge

flanged edge

encircle

rock

🪨

drunken

droop

rotate

raised edge

rotor

drive

rumple

run

become coiled

drift

be curly

dress

👗

slither

pilus tortus

distortion

distort

squirm

stir

stoop

swing

swipe

curly

thieving

tie

transit

looped pile

troll

🧌

cupping

crinkly

crinkling

cringe

twisted hair

loop pile

volute

vortex

corkscrew

warpage

coif

whip

circle

⭕

whirlwind

bump

buckle

winding

worm

🪱

wreath

birl

wrestle

wriggle

writhe

be crooked

oblique setting

billow

skeller

bouclé

tress of hair

wavy hair

be twisted

spinor

cut notches

friz

move tortuously

curly lock of hair

frounce

birle

frizzly

froth

circumvolute

sausage curl

hemming

hitch

hogging

frisk

incline

incurve

indent

joggling

Pronunciat com a (IPA)

/kɜːl/

Etimologia (English)

Cognate with persa: گرس

Cognate with Saterfriesisch: Krulle

Cognate with frisó occidental: krul

Cognate with neerlandès: krul

Cognate with alemany: Krolle

Cognate with danès: krølle

Cognate with noruec: krull

Cognate with Saterfriesisch: Kruus

Cognate with alemany: kraus

Cognate with danès: krus

Cognate with suec: krusa

Cognate with gòtic: 𐌺𐍂𐌹𐌿𐍃𐍄𐌰𐌽

In summary

From metathesis of Middle English crulle (“curled, curly”), from Middle Dutch crul, crulle (“curl”), ultimately from Proto-Germanic *kruzlǭ (“bent or crooked object, curl”), of unknown origin; possibly from Pre-Germanic *grus-, contracted from Proto-Indo-European *gurus- (“twist, curl”), same source as Persian گرس (gors, “braid of hair”).
Cognate with Saterland Frisian Krulle (“curl, lock”), West Frisian krul (“curl”), Dutch krul (“curl”), German Low German Krull (“curl”), dialectal German Krolle (“curl”), Danish krølle (“curl”), Norwegian krull (“curl”). Related also to Saterland Frisian Kruus (“curl”), German kraus (“frizzy, crumpled, curly”), Danish krus (“curl”), Swedish krusa (“to crimp, curl”). Compare also Gothic 𐌺𐍂𐌹𐌿𐍃𐍄𐌰𐌽 (kriustan, “to grind, crush, gnash”).