curl

Noun

• a strand or cluster of hair

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

• a round shape formed by a series of concentric circles (as formed by leaves or flower petals)

Verb

• play the Scottish game of curling

• twist or roll into coils or ringlets
  • curl my hair, please
    

• wind around something in coils or loops

• shape one's body into a curl
  • She curled farther down under the covers
    
  • She fell and drew in
    

• form a curl, curve, or kink
  • the cigar smoke curled up at the ceiling
    

Related words

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