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0 a piece of hair that grows or has been formed into a curving shape, or something that is the same shape as this:
- tight/loose curls
- Her hair fell in curls over her shoulders.
- Curls of smoke were rising from the chimney.
- The curl on the shot sent it looping around the keeper into the far corner of the net.
1 to make something into the shape of a curl, or to grow or change into this shape:
- Does your hair curl naturally, or is it permed?
- A new baby will automatically curl its fingers round any object it touches.
- He curled the ball into the top right hand corner.
- Her lip curled at what he said.
2 a piece of hair having a curving shape, like part of a circle, or something else having a circular shape:
- [ C ] He loved that dark curl at the back of her neck.
- [ C ] We watched the curls of smoke rise from his pipe.
3 to form or cause something to form a curving or twisted shape:
- [ T ] If I don’t curl my hair, it looks too stringy.

Spines rammed by table legs busting the strings of ukuleles curling into black lumps.
A leaf or leaflet was defined as curled if over 30% of the leaf edge was curled upwards.
The eager boy-men are crouched over its curling exhaust formed by the electric-car track,34 with the electrical toy the satirical equivalent of the electronic countermeasures in the real bomber.
B: during diastole, massive pulmonary regurgitation is directed toward the right ventricular free wall, u'hich curls around, and then moves back toward the right ventricular inflow tract.
When the rigid object is moved, it appears to flex and change shape, and be more or less curled as the elevation above eye level is increased or decreased.
In the experimental crosses all the progenies were non-purple, non-chubby and curled winged, showing that they carried one copy of the numb gene, the nb2\nb2 genotypes being lethal.
After lying dying with his legs curled up in a foetal position, he retreats into the bath, then starts all over again, never managing to deliver himself from the womb.
To-day, one gets a horrible piece of paper which curls up in three months.