curl
US: /ˈkɝɫ/
UK: /kˈɜːl/
English - Vietnamese dictionary
curl /kə:l/- danh từ
- món tóc quăn
- sự uốn quăn; sự quăn
- to keep the hair in curl: giữ cho tóc quăn
- làn (khói...); cuộn; cái bĩu (môi)
- bệnh xoắn lá (của khoai tây)
- ngoại động từ
- uốn, uốn quăn, làm xoăn
- to curl the hair: uốn tóc
- uốn, uốn quăn, làm xoăn
- nội động từ
- quăn, xoắn, cuộn
- hair curls naturally: tóc quăn tự nhiên
- to curl up
- cuộn lại, xoắn lại; cuồn cuộn lên (khói)
- co tròn lại, thu mình lại
- to lie curled up: nằm co tròn
- (từ lóng) ngã sụp xuống (vì mệt, vì trúng đạn...)
- quăn, xoắn, cuộn
Advanced English dictionary
verb, noun+ verb
1 to form or make sth form into a curl or curls: [V] His hair curls naturally. [also VN]
2 [usually +adv./prep.] to form or make sth form into a curved shape: [V] The cat curled into a ball and went to sleep. + [VN] She curled her legs up under her.
3 [usually +adv./prep.] to move while forming into a twisted or curved shape; to make sth do this: [V] The smoke curled steadily upwards. + The honeysuckle curled around the trunk of the apple tree. + [VN] He turned and curled the ball around the goalkeeper.
4 [V, VN] if you curl your lip or your lip curls, you move your lip upwards and sideways to show that you think sb/sth is stupid or that you are better than they are
Idioms see TOE n.
Phrasal Verbs: curl up
be curled up to lie or sit with your back curved and your arms and legs bent close to your body: She curled up and closed her eyes.
curl up
curl sb up (BrE, informal) to become or make sb become very embarrassed
curl up
curl sth<->up to form or make sth form into a tightly curled shape: The paper started to shrivel and curl up in the heat.
+ noun
1 [C] a small bunch of hair that forms a curved or round shape: Her hair was a mass of curls. + The baby had dark eyes and dark curls.
2 [C, U] the tendency of hair to form curls: His hair had a natural curl.
3 [C] a thing that forms a curved or round shape: a curl of smoke + Decorate the cake with curls of chocolate. + a contemptuous curl of the lip (= an expression showing disapproval)
Collocation
1 piece of hair
ADJ.
natural | soft | tight | corkscrew, spiral | auburn, blonde, dark, etc. | natural | stray
She pushed a stray curl away from her eyes.
| tangled, tumbling, unruly, untamed, wayward
She smoothed down her tangled curls.
| damp
VERB + CURL
press/push/stroke back, smooth back/down | ruffle, run your fingers through | tease
He carefully teased his curls into place.
| shake
She shook her dark curls sadly.
CURL + VERB
fall, tumble
Her auburn curls tumbled about her face.
| bounce | frame sth
Her face was framed by a mop of black curls.
PREP.
in ~s
His hair spilled in curls over his forehead.
| through the/your ~s
She raked a comb through her wayward curls.
PHRASES
a cascade/mass/mop of curls
Her hair was styled into a cascade of spiral curls.
| lose its curl
Her hair lost its curl as she got older.
2 sth with a curved round shape
ADJ.
faint, little, slight
He acknowledged her remark with a faint curl of his lips.
PREP.
~ of
a curl of smoke
Concise dictionary
curls|curled|curlingkɜːlnoun
+a round shape formed by a series of concentric circles (as formed by leaves or flower petals)
+American chemist who with Richard Smalley and Harold Kroto discovered fullerenes and opened a new branch of chemistry (born in 1933)
+a strand or cluster of hair
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
