A Quick and Simple Dictionary

curl

1. Noun.  A piece or lock of curling hair; a ringlet.
2. Noun.  A curved stroke or shape.
3. Noun.  A spin making the trajectory of an object curve.
4. Noun.  (curling) Movement of a moving rock away from a straight line.
5. Noun.  (weightlifting) Any exercise performed by bending the arm, wrist, or leg on the exertion against resistance, especially those that train the biceps.
6. Noun.  (calculus) The vector field denoting the rotationality of a given vector field.
7. Noun.  (calculus, proper noun) The vector operator, denoted $m\{curl\};$ or $vec\{\; abla\}\; imesvec\{left(cdot\; ight)\}$, that generates this field.
8. Noun.  (agriculture) Any of various diseases of plants causing the leaves or shoots to curl up; often specifically the potato curl.
9. Verb.  (transitive) To cause to move in a curve.
10. Verb.  (transitive) To make into a curl or spiral.
11. Verb.  (intransitive) To assume the shape of a curl or spiral.
12. Verb.  (intransitive) To move in curves.
13. Verb.  (intransitive, curling) To take part in the sport of curling.
14. Verb.  (transitive, weightlifting) To exercise by bending the arm, wrist, or leg on the exertion against resistance, especially of the biceps.