What part of speech is curl?

Curl can be categorized as a noun and a verb.

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Parts of speech

  • 1. curl is a verb, present, 1st person singular of curl (infinitive).
  • 2. curl is a verb (infinitive).
  • 3. curl is a noun, singular of curls.

Inflections

Verb

Noun

What does curl mean?

Definitions

Verb

curl - form a curl, curve, or kink; "the cigar smoke curled up at the ceiling"
curl - twist or roll into coils or ringlets; "curl my hair, please"
curl - play the Scottish game of curling
curl - wind around something in coils or loops
curl - shape one's body into a curl; "She curled farther down under the covers"; "She fell and drew in"

Noun

Curl - American chemist who with Richard Smalley and Harold Kroto discovered fullerenes and opened a new branch of chemistry (born in 1933)
curl - a round shape formed by a series of concentric circles (as formed by leaves or flower petals)
curl - a strand or cluster of hair

Examples of curl

#   Sentence  
1. verb Curl my hair, please.
2. verb On colder days, they curl up or dig a hole in the snow.
3. verb It's not the mode for young girls to curl their bangs.
4. verb She made his hair curl.
5. verb Cut off that curl!
6. verb "Poor little soul," she murmured, lifting a loose curl of hair from the child's tear-stained face.
7. verb Trilobites fossils are arthropods, or joint-footed animals, with a segmented body of hinged plates and shields. They could curl up into a ball for protection, sometimes fossilizing as a "rolled" trilobite.
8. verb Sami loves the curl patterns of Layla's hair.
9. verb We finished with a curl of orange peel.
10. verb Her face made me think of a pickled herring in curl papers.
11. verb Stroke lashes upwards to boost curl.
12. verb The legs will curl up.
13. verb The bonspiel was for people who curl competitively.
14. verb Sometimes I like to grab my phone, curl up in my toasty bed, and just tap away.
Sentence  
verb
Curl my hair, please.
On colder days, they curl up or dig a hole in the snow.
It's not the mode for young girls to curl their bangs.
She made his hair curl.
Cut off that curl!
"Poor little soul," she murmured, lifting a loose curl of hair from the child's tear-stained face.
Trilobites fossils are arthropods, or joint-footed animals, with a segmented body of hinged plates and shields. They could curl up into a ball for protection, sometimes fossilizing as a "rolled" trilobite.
Sami loves the curl patterns of Layla's hair.
We finished with a curl of orange peel.
Her face made me think of a pickled herring in curl papers.
Stroke lashes upwards to boost curl.
The legs will curl up.
The bonspiel was for people who curl competitively.
Sometimes I like to grab my phone, curl up in my toasty bed, and just tap away.

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