curls

Meanings

Noun

• 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
• plural of curl
• Specifically, a body of curly hair on someone's head.

Verb

• form a curl, curve, or kink
• shape one's body into a curl
• wind around something in coils or loops
• twist or roll into coils or ringlets
• play the Scottish game of curling
• third-person singular simple present indicative of curl

Synonyms

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

Antonyms

uncoil