CURL

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curl I. verb A. intranzitiv

1. (despre păr) a se încreţi, a se (în)cârlionţa, a se bucla; a face creţuri.

2. a se încolăci, a se încovriga; a se înfăşura, a se învălătuci; a se zbârci, a se cârci.

3. (despre fum, nori etc.) a se răsuci, a se învârteji, a se rostogoli, a şerpui, a face spirale.

4. to curl up a) a se încreţi, a se zbârci, a face valuri (mici), a undui, a ondula, a văluri; b) v. curl (I, A, 2.); a se ghemui, a se zgribuli, a se face ghem; c) a fi agitat.

curl I. verb B. tranzitiv

1. a încreţi; a (în)cârlionţa, a bucla, a ondula, a friza (părul).

2. a răsuci; a strâmba, a curba;

to curl one’s lip strâmba din gură (cu dispreţ).

3. a încreţi, a zbârci, a face să unduiască, să onduleze (suprafaţa apei).

4. to curl up v. curl (I, B, 3.); a agita.

curl II. substantiv

1. cârlionţ, buclă, zuluf; plural păr creţ.

2. (şu)viţă de păr ondulată; inel.

3. inel, spirală, vârtej, rotocol (de fum).

4. (bot.) încreţirea frunzelor (boală a cartofului, tutunului, pătlăgelei roşii).

5. vârtej, volbură, vâltoare (a vijeliei)

6. (text.) ondulare.

◊ (fam.) to go out of curl a-şi pierde energia; a-i pieri elanul, a deveni apatic; a se muia.

Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:

Ah! said Mr. Peggotty, taking up her curls, and running them over his hand like water, here's another orphan, you see, sir.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

The Lion also curled himself up to sleep and Toto lay beside him.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, de L. Frank Baum)

But tell me, I pray, canst curl hair?

(The White Company, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

"Julia's hair curls naturally," returned Miss Temple, still more quietly.

(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)

These flat brims curled at the edge came in then.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Our blinds were half-drawn, and Holmes lay curled upon the sofa, reading and re-reading a letter which he had received by the morning post.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

When the giants came up to him, the first pushed him with his foot, and said, “What worm is this that lies here curled up?” “Tread upon him and kill him,” said the second.

(Fairy Tales, de The Brothers Grimm)

Those curls!

(Emma, de Jane Austen)

There was a momentary expression in Captain Wentworth's face at this speech, a certain glance of his bright eye, and curl of his handsome mouth, which convinced Anne, that instead of sharing in Mrs Musgrove's kind wishes, as to her son, he had probably been at some pains to get rid of him; but it was too transient an indulgence of self-amusement to be detected by any who understood him less than herself; in another moment he was perfectly collected and serious, and almost instantly afterwards coming up to the sofa, on which she and Mrs Musgrove were sitting, took a place by the latter, and entered into conversation with her, in a low voice, about her son, doing it with so much sympathy and natural grace, as shewed the kindest consideration for all that was real and unabsurd in the parent's feelings.

(Persuasion, de Jane Austen)

She blushed up to the little curls on her forehead, for he had never called her Margaret before, and she was surprised to find how natural and sweet it seemed to hear him say it.

(Little Women, de Louisa May Alcott)

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