CURL


Meaning of CURL in English

I.

noun

1 piece of hair

ADJECTIVE

▪ natural

▪ loose , soft , wavy

▪ tight

▪ little

▪ thick

▪ long

▪ corkscrew , spiral

▪ auburn , blonde , dark , etc.

▪ slight

His hair had a slight ~ to it.

▪ stray

She pushed a stray ~ away from her eyes.

▪ tangled , unruly , untamed

She smoothed down her tangled ~s.

▪ damp

VERB + CURL

▪ have

She has beautiful blonde ~s.

▪ press back , push back , smooth back , stroke back

▪ smooth down

▪ ruffle , run your fingers through

▪ tease

He carefully teased his ~s into place.

▪ shake

She shook her dark ~s sadly.

▪ brush

CURL + VERB

▪ fall , tumble

Her auburn ~s tumbled about her face.

▪ hang

▪ bounce

▪ frame sth

Her face was framed by a mop of black ~s.

PREPOSITION

▪ in ~s

His hair spilled in ~s over his forehead.

▪ through the/your ~s

She raked a comb through her ~s.

PHRASES

▪ a cascade of ~s , a mass of ~s , a mop of ~s

Her hair was styled into a cascade of spiral ~s.

▪ lose its ~

Her hair lost its ~ as she got older.

2 sth with a curved round shape

ADJECTIVE

▪ faint

He acknowledged her remark with a faint ~ of his lips.

PREPOSITION

▪ ~ of

a ~ of smoke

II.

verb

ADVERB

▪ tightly

▪ slightly

▪ back , up

She ~ed her legs up under her.

PREPOSITION

▪ around , round ( esp. BrE )

His fingers ~ed tightly around the steering wheel.

▪ from

Smoke was ~ing up from the chimney.

▪ into

The cat ~ed into a ball and fell asleep.

PHRASES

▪ ~ed up

She was lying ~ed up on her bed.

▪ ~ (up) at the edges

The photograph was brown and ~ing at the edges.

Curl is used with these nouns as the subject: ↑ fist , ↑ hair , ↑ lip , ↑ mouth , ↑ smoke , ↑ toe

Curl is used with these nouns as the object: ↑ eyelash , ↑ finger , ↑ hair , ↑ lip , ↑ toe

Oxford Collocations English Dictionary.      Оксфордский английский словарь словосочетаний .