Definition, Meaning & Synonyms | English word CURL

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Definitions of CURL

1. A curved stroke or shape.
2. A spin making the trajectory of an object curve.
3. To twist or form (the hair, etc.) into ringlets.
4. To deck with, or as if with, curls; to ornament.
5. To raise in waves or undulations; to ripple.
6. A curving piece or lock of hair; a ringlet.
7. (baking, chiefly, plural) A thin, curved piece of chocolate used as decoration.
8. (curling) Movement of a moving rock away from a straight line.
9. (weightlifting) Any exercise performed by bending the arm, wrist, or leg on the exertion against resistance, especially those that train the biceps.
10. (calculus) The vector field denoting the rotationality of a given vector field.
11. (calculus, proper noun) The vector operator, denoted or , that generates this field.
12. (agriculture) Any of various diseases of plants causing the leaves or shoots to curl up; often specifically the potato curl.
13. (music, chiefly, lutherie) The contrasting light and dark figure seen in wood used for stringed instrument making; the flame.
14. (American football) 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.
15. (transitive) To cause to move in a curve.
16. (transitive) To make into a curl or spiral.
17. (intransitive) To assume the shape of a curl or spiral.
18. (intransitive) To move in curves.
19. (intransitive, curling) To take part in the sport of curling.
20. (transitive, weightlifting) To exercise by bending the arm, wrist, or leg on the exertion against resistance, especially of the biceps.
21. (hat-making) To shape (the brim of a hat) into a curve.
22. A surname.

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Examples of Using CURL in a Sentence

• The Afghan Hound is a hound distinguished by its thick, fine, silky coat, and a tail with a ring curl at the end.
• In vector calculus, the curl, also known as rotor, is a vector operator that describes the infinitesimal circulation of a vector field in three-dimensional Euclidean space.
• He shared the 1996 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Robert Curl and Richard Smalley for their discovery of fullerenes.
• Due to his father's missionary work, his family moved several times within southern and southwestern Texas, and the elder Curl was involved in starting the San Antonio Medical Center's Methodist Hospital.
• Curl is a reflective object-oriented programming language for interactive web applications, whose goal is to provide a smoother transition between content formatting and computer programming.
• Oliver Heaviside also discovered it independently in the more general form that recognises the freedom of adding the curl of an arbitrary vector field to the definition.
• The irrotationality of a potential flow is due to the curl of the gradient of a scalar always being equal to zero.
• Vector fields can usefully be thought of as representing the velocity of a moving flow in space, and this physical intuition leads to notions such as the divergence (which represents the rate of change of volume of a flow) and curl (which represents the rotation of a flow).
• While the LaPerm gene is a simple dominant, the Selkirk gene (Se) acts as an incomplete dominant; incompletely dominant allele pairs produce three possible genotypes and phenotypes: heterozygous cats (Sese) may have a fuller coat that is preferred in the show ring, while homozygous cats (SeSe) may have a tighter curl and less coat volume.
• On the navy blue mess dress jacket and the navy blue service dress tunic: the cuff insignia is one wide gold braid below two standard size gold braids, the superior one includes the executive curl.
• Leaves are opposite and divided into leaflets and leafstalks that twist and curl around supporting structures to anchor the plant as it climbs.
• clean-and-jerk, snatch, deadlift, squat, bench press, military press, clean-and-press, dumbbell curl, fly, calf raise, two hands anyhow.
• When applied to a field (a function defined on a multi-dimensional domain), it may denote any one of three operations depending on the way it is applied: the gradient or (locally) steepest slope of a scalar field (or sometimes of a vector field, as in the Navier–Stokes equations); the divergence of a vector field; or the curl (rotation) of a vector field.
• The del operator in this system leads to the following expressions for gradient, divergence, curl and Laplacian:.
• Bodyboarding is a water sport in which the surfer rides a bodyboard on the crest, face, and curl of a wave which is carrying the surfer towards the shore.
• Traditionally made pepperonis curl into "cups" in the pizza oven's intense heat; commercialization of the production of pepperoni created slices that would lie flat on the pizza.
• Curl, who served as morning shift editor, left the site in 2014 and, with Drudge's blessing, in January 2015 launched his own aggregator Right Read, for The Washington Times.
• If the curl of the fingers represents a movement from the first or x-axis to the second or y-axis, then the third or z-axis can point along either right thumb or left thumb.
• Because of this, the shell provides protection at the same time as permitting the chiton to flex upward when needed for locomotion over uneven surfaces, and even allows the animal to curl up into a ball when dislodged from rocks.
• As a consequence of being uncoated on the other side, they have a strong tendency to curl and now often require the use of a clip or weight around the turntable spindle to keep them sufficiently flat during play.
• Del defines the gradient, and is used to calculate the curl, divergence, and Laplacian of various objects.
• Curl constructors are factories that facilitates using multiple-inheritance without explicit declaration of either interfaces or mixins.
• If an organization's PKI diverges too much from that of the IETF or CA/Browser Forum, then the organization risks losing interoperability with common tools like web browsers, cURL, and Wget.
• The chalky cliffs to the southern side of Great Vilm are rapidly eroding, while sandbanks are building to add a snail-like curl to the tail.
• When threatened, they sometimes curl up or release a noxious liquid that contains large amounts of benzoquinones which can cause dermatological burns.

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