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▸ noun: A curved stroke or shape.
▸ noun: A spin making the trajectory of an object curve.
▸ noun: (curling) Movement of a moving rock away from a straight line.
▸ noun: (weightlifting) Any exercise performed by bending the arm, wrist, or leg on the exertion against resistance, especially those that train the biceps.
▸ noun: (calculus) The vector field denoting the rotationality of a given vector field.
▸ noun: (calculus, proper noun) The vector operator, denoted rm curl; or ⃑∇×⃑(·), that generates this field.
▸ noun: (agriculture, phytopathology) Any of various diseases of plants causing the leaves or shoots to curl up; often specifically the potato curl.
▸ noun: (music, chiefly lutherie) The contrasting light and dark figure seen in wood used for stringed instrument making; the flame.
▸ noun: (American football) A pattern where the receiver appears to be running a fly pattern but after a set number of steps or yards quickly stops and turns around, looking for a pass.
▸ noun: (baking, chiefly in the plural) A thin, curved piece of chocolate used as decoration.
▸ noun: (surfing) The concave part of a breaking wave.
▸ verb: (transitive) To cause to move in a curve.
▸ verb: (transitive) To make into a curl or spiral.
▸ verb: (intransitive) To assume the shape of a curl or spiral.
▸ verb: (intransitive) To move in curves.
▸ verb: (intransitive, curling) To take part in the sport of curling.
▸ verb: (transitive, weightlifting) To exercise by bending the arm, wrist, or leg on the exertion against resistance, especially of the biceps.
▸ verb: To twist or form (the hair, etc.) into ringlets.
▸ verb: To deck with, or as if with, curls; to ornament.
▸ verb: To raise in waves or undulations; to ripple.
▸ verb: (hat-making) To shape (the brim of a hat) into a curve.
▸ noun: A surname.
▸ noun: Clipping of American Curl. [A shorthair or semi-longhair domestic cat breed originating in the United States. This breed displays distinctive backward-curling ears.]
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Types:
2-strand twist,
3-strand twist,
4-strand twist,
bantu knots,
braid-out,
flat-twist out,
locs,
marley twists,
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