Word Finder - curls

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A piece or lock of curling hair; a ringlet.

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A curved stroke or shape.

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A spin making the trajectory of an object curve.

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Movement of a moving rock away from a straight line.

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Any exercise performed by bending the arm, wrist, or leg on the exertion against resistance, especially those that train the biceps.

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The vector field denoting the rotationality of a given vector field.

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The curl of the vector field \vec{F}(x,y,z) is the vector field \operatorname{curl}\,\vec{F} \equiv \vec{\nabla}\times\vec{F}=\left( \frac{\partial F_z}{\partial y} - \frac{\partial F_y}{\partial z}, \frac{\partial F_x}{\partial z} - \frac{\partial F_z}{\partial x}, \frac{\partial F_y}{\partial x} - \frac{\partial F_x}{\partial y} \right).

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(proper noun) The vector operator, denoted \rm{curl}\; or \vec{\nabla}\times\vec{\left(\cdot\right)}, that generates this field.

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Any of various diseases of plants causing the leaves or shoots to curl up; often specifically the potato curl.

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The contrasting light and dark figure seen in wood used for stringed instrument making; the flame.

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The one-piece back is of a medium curl.

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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.

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To cause to move in a curve.

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To make into a curl or spiral.

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To assume the shape of a curl or spiral.

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To move in curves.

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To take part in the sport of curling.

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I curl at my local club every weekend.

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To exercise by bending the arm, wrist, or leg on the exertion against resistance, especially of the biceps.

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To twist or form (the hair, etc.) into ringlets.

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To deck with, or as if with, curls; to ornament.

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To raise in waves or undulations; to ripple.

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(hat-making) To shape (the brim of a hat) into a curve.

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Specifically, a body of curly hair on someone's head

Carmen tied Destiny's curls with a yellow ribbon.

She lifted her head, copper curls falling across her eyes.

He gathered her warm body in his arms and smoothed away the curls that clung to his face, breathing her deep scent before he dropped into the first peaceful slumber in ages.

He touched her automatically, stroking the side of her face and tucking errant curls behind her ear.

Fortunately, the curls were now loose waves.

Rhyn stopped in place.  He'd never thought he'd hear her voice again, and he couldn't remember the last time he'd heard anything that stopped his world in place.  He turned to see Katie supporting Hannah as they entered the Sanctuary courtyard.  Katie wore simple jeans and a t-shirt.  Her dark curls cascaded down her shoulders, and her face glowed.  Her bright eyes locked on his.  She stopped too far away for his comfort, struggling to support her sister.

Roller wrap sets are a great way to get large, loose curls without damaging the hair with heat styling.

Wet auburn curls were plastered around her pale face and the back of her neck.

Her hair was free, the long, loose curls cascading down her shoulders and back.

She wore the camisole that amplified her breasts, her curls captured at the nape of her neck.

His first vision was that of Bianca's wet, pale face with dark curls stuck to her cheeks.

He breathed in her familiar scent, her curls tickling his face.

She had decided to let it grow long, even though she feared the weight of it would remove the curls.

Combing her hair, she was thankful for the natural curls that softly framed her face.

In her room she ran a comb threw her curls and stared back at the violet eyes haunting her from the mirror.

Magic shot through him, burning like fire.  Kris gasped.  Another blast, and he fell to the ground.  His body roiled with the demon magic, convulsing until the blow faded.  He felt himself hauled up by his neck and thrust onto the ground again.  His vision blurry, Kris could only see Hannah's beautiful blond hair.  Sorrow replaced anger, and he reached out, touching the soft wheat curls.

Pulling her hair back, she squeezed water out of it and then fluffed it with her fingers to release the natural curls.

Thousands of years later, Jenn could still see her daughter's brown eyes and curls.

Her auburn curls were drawn up into a decorative band at the side of her head.

His eyes were soft in the candlelight as he surveyed her jumbled mass of curls.

She pulled her wet hair back into a braid at her neck and fluffed the loose tendrils at her temples into curls.

She slipped into a pair of white sandals and grabbed her purse, giving her long curls a toss to send them cascading down her back instead of tickling her shoulders.

A cool breeze ruffled her curls.

She was of above average height with long, dark blonde curls loosely captured at her neck.

Restarting it, she rested her elbow on the counter and leaned her chin on her hand, her dark blonde curls sweeping forward.

Her bronze curls were captured in a ponytail, her face flushed from his bite and her gray eyes glittering with anger that made him want to sweep her up and kiss her until the dazed look returned.

Her features were as soft as her skin, her displaced curls everywhere.

Her gray eyes were almost the color of the moon overhead, her pale features obscured by curls that danced in an ocean breeze.

He couldn't help thinking she looked like some beautiful, otherworldly creature with her full lips, haunted eyes and curls that appeared silver in the moonlight.

Hands trembling, she pulled off the necklace, taking her time to untangle the cord from her curls.

In archaic figures the hair is most frequently arranged over the brow and temples in parallel rows of small curls which must have been kept in their places by artificial means.

The tentacles serve for the capture of prey and are very contractile, being often protruded to a great length or, on the other hand, retracted and forming corkscrew-like curls.

During these weeks their bodies are covered with leather so that the fur may develop in close, light and clean curls.

Sincholagua and Ruminagui are the next two peaks, going southward, and then the unrivalled cone of Cotopaxi - the highest active volcano in the world - from whose summit smoke curls upward unceasingly.

The hair is shaved off from the forehead to the top of the head, the remainder at the sides being allowed to fall in large curls over the shoulders.

Auburn curls formed a halo around her pale face.

Even the way she wore her hair, with those braids wrapped around the top of her head like a crown and the long shiny blond curls falling around her shoulders and down her back – she wasn't simply beautiful.

Both were dressed in black, the Black God pale and stoic and Bianca smiling sadly while a stiff breeze whipped her curls around.

Her auburn curls lay in no particular style – so much like her father.

Ingrid claimed to hire an ugly, old assistant, but the woman concerned more about the stain on his shirt than being around a vampire was enchanting, with long, loose blonde curls, olive-tinted skin and feathery eyelashes that set off striking gray eyes.

Instead he did heavy dumbbell bench presses and heavy curls.

He is tall and jovial and rather burly as conductors go, the possessor of almost as many curls as Simon Rattle.

Gluteal muscles are also strengthened by half squats and hamstring curls.

Lady Caroline herself was described as slender, graceful, with short clipped flaxen curls with a soft prettily affected voice.

Your blond curls bounce now that your flesh is all anointed with the perfume of a boy aware.

I saw my slim body with its blond curls.

What, too, would the fellows at the Drones say if I were to saunter in with golden curls all over me?

He wears a wig of shoulder length soft brown curls.

This is a heart and lung exercise and will increase your heart rate and breathing. 1 set 15 reps of bicep curls.

I will use a bit of body language on things like dumbbell curls to grind a few more reps out.