What part of speech is curls?

Curls can be categorized as a noun and a verb.

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Parts of speech

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

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Verb

Noun

What does curls 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
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Examples of curls

#   Sentence  
1. noun Meg's hair curls naturally.
2. noun My hair curls easily.
3. noun She keeps her hair in curls.
4. noun A tricorn trimmed with gold lace was set at a rakish angle over a wig of white curls that dropped down to his waist.
5. noun I like curls.
6. noun There was no doubt that the small beauty with the long brown curls and hazel eyes, who was casting coquettish looks at Jack Gills over the edge of her Testament, was Prillie Rogerson, whose father had recently married a second wife and brought Prillie home from her grandmother's in Grafton.
7. noun Mennad makes me laugh so much my stomach curls.
8. noun Had Moses seen my beloved's face reddened from drunkenness, and his beautiful curls and majesty, he would not have written in his Torah: "do not lie with a man."
9. noun They're not natural curls!
10. verb Now curls the wave, and lifts us to the sky, / now sinks and, plunging in the gulf we lie.
11. verb Curl my hair, please.
12. verb On colder days, they curl up or dig a hole in the snow.
13. verb It's not the mode for young girls to curl their bangs.
14. verb She made his hair curl.
15. verb Cut off that curl!
16. verb "Poor little soul," she murmured, lifting a loose curl of hair from the child's tear-stained face.
17. 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.
18. verb Sami loves the curl patterns of Layla's hair.
19. verb We finished with a curl of orange peel.
20. verb Her face made me think of a pickled herring in curl papers.
21. verb Stroke lashes upwards to boost curl.
22. verb The legs will curl up.
23. verb The bonspiel was for people who curl competitively.
24. verb Sometimes I like to grab my phone, curl up in my toasty bed, and just tap away.
Sentence  
noun
Meg's hair curls naturally.
My hair curls easily.
She keeps her hair in curls.
A tricorn trimmed with gold lace was set at a rakish angle over a wig of white curls that dropped down to his waist.
I like curls.
There was no doubt that the small beauty with the long brown curls and hazel eyes, who was casting coquettish looks at Jack Gills over the edge of her Testament, was Prillie Rogerson, whose father had recently married a second wife and brought Prillie home from her grandmother's in Grafton.
Mennad makes me laugh so much my stomach curls.
Had Moses seen my beloved's face reddened from drunkenness, and his beautiful curls and majesty, he would not have written in his Torah: "do not lie with a man."
They're not natural curls!
verb
Now curls the wave, and lifts us to the sky, / now sinks and, plunging in the gulf we lie.
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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