curl
pronunciation
How to pronounce curl in British English:
UK [kɜːl]
How to pronounce curl in American English:
US [kɜːrl]
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- Noun:
- a round shape formed by a series of concentric circles
- a strand or cluster of hair
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- 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
Word Origin
- curl
- curl: [14] Curl seems to have been borrowed from Middle Dutch krul ‘curly’, and indeed the original English forms of the word were crolle and crulle. The present-day form arose in the 15th century by a process known as metathesis, whereby the sounds r and u were transposed. The Middle Dutch word came from a Germanic *krusl-, source also of German kraus ‘curly’. Modern Dutch krul, meanwhile, has given English cruller ‘small cake of twisted shape’ [19].=> cruller
- curl (v.)
- mid-15c., metathesis of crulle (c. 1300), probably from an unrecorded Old English word or from Middle Dutch krul "curly," from Proto-Germanic *krusl- (cognates: East Frisian krull "lock of hair," Middle High German krol, Norwegian krull, Danish krølle "curl"). The noun is recorded from c. 1600.
Example
- 1. We love how the paint chips curl away from the wall , adding movement to the art .
- 2. After showering , apply a curl cream to wet hair and let it air-dry .
- 3. Because the flexible material can curl or shift during this process , it 's bonded temporarily to a rigid piece of glass .
- 4. If this option is used and the server sends an unsupported encoding , curl will report an error .
- 5. Of course this is only done on files specified on a single command line and cannot be used between separate curl invokes .