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Curl vs Corkscrew - What's the difference?

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Curl is a synonym of corkscrew.


As nouns the difference between curl and corkscrew

is that curl is a piece or lock of curling hair; a ringlet while corkscrew is an implement for opening bottles that are sealed by a cork sometimes specifically such an implement that includes a screw-shaped part, or worm.

As verbs the difference between curl and corkscrew

is that curl is (lb) to cause to move in a curve while corkscrew is to wind or twist in the manner of a corkscrew; to move with much horizontal and vertical shifting.

As an adjective corkscrew is

having the tightly winding shape of a corkscrew.

curl

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A piece or lock of curling hair; a ringlet.
  • * 1866 , (Louisa May Alcott), , chapter 7:
    • she took it down, looked long and fondly at it, then, shaking her curls about her face, as if to hide the act, pressed it to her lips and seemed to weep over it in an uncontrollable paroxysm of tender grief.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1910, author=(Emerson Hough)
    • , title= The Purchase Price, chapter=1 , passage=Serene, smiling, enigmatic, she faced him with no fear whatever showing in her dark eyes.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
    • , chapter=17 citation , passage=The face which emerged was not reassuring. […]. He was not a mongol but there was a deficiency of a sort there, and it was not made more pretty by a latter-day hair cut which involved eccentrically long elf-locks and oiled black curls .}}
  • A curved stroke or shape.
  • * 1995 , John Curtis, Julian Reade, & Dominique Collon, Art and Empire: Treasures from Assyria in the British Museum? , page 184:
    • the backs of their necks and their forelegs are decorated with curls and their necks and bodies are covered with fine, undulating lines.
  • A spin making the trajectory of an object curve.
  • * 1909 , Harold Horsfall Hilton, The Six Handicap Golfer's Companion [http://books.google.com/books?id=fZ0XAAAAYAAJ], page 38:
    • It is possible to use the wind which blows from the left to the right by playing well into the wind with the slightest bit of curl on the ball […]
  • (curling) Movement of a moving rock away from a straight line.
  • (weightlifting) Any exercise performed by bending the arm, wrist, or leg on the exertion against resistance, especially those that train the biceps.
  • * 2007 (Jan/Feb), Jon Crosby, "Your Winter Muscle Makeover", Men's Health , page 54:
    • Now do a curl and an overhead press, keeping your palms facing in.
  • (calculus) The vector field denoting the rotationality of a given vector field.
  • * 1995 , Erich Prisner, Graph dynamics :
    • In 2D, when Q is a polygonal domain, the singularities of Type (2) disappear because ?'' is the scalar curl''' of ''u'' and is such that its vectorial ' curl is zero.
  • (calculus, proper noun) The vector operator, denoted \rm{curl}\; or \vec{\nabla}\times\vec{\left(\cdot\right)}, that generates this field.
  • (agriculture) Any of various diseases of plants causing the leaves or shoots to curl up; often specifically the potato curl.
  • * 1840 , "Farmers' Department", The Family Magazine , volume 1, page 227:
    • These potatoes, however, planted the next year, have a fair yield, untouched by the curl .
  • (music, chiefly, lutherie) The contrasting light and dark figure seen in wood used for stringed instrument making; the flame.

    • Synonyms

    * (lock of curling hair) ringlet * (curved stroke or shape) curlicue, curve, flourish, loop, spiral

    Antonyms

    * (weightlifting exercise) extension

    Derived terms

    * barbell curl * biceps curl * cable curl * concentration curl * curlicue * curliness * curly * dumbbell curl * hammer curl * high-cable curl * leaf curl * leg curl * machine curl * preacher curl * reverse curl * scalar curl * trunk curl * wrist curl * Zottman curl

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (lb) To cause to move in a curve.
  • *1998 , Nick Hornby, Fever Pitch? , p.70:
  • *:He picked the ball up about forty yards out on the left wing, left a trail of Arsenal defenders in his wake, and curled the ball round Geoff Barnett as he came right out into the far corner.
  • *{{quote-news, year=2011, date=January 12, author=Saj Chowdhury, work=BBC
    • , title= Liverpool 2-1 Liverpool , passage=Campbell should have scored but missed with a header from four yards at the far post before Taylor-Fletcher came close to adding a second when he curled an effort over the stranded Reina, who should have been punished for a poor clearance.}}
  • To make into a curl or spiral.
  • *2004 , Jacquelyn Mitchard, Twelve Times Blessed? , p.249:
  • *:She curls her spine; she wedges a pillow between her knees.
  • (lb) To assume the shape of a curl or spiral.
  • *1847 , , ? , Ch.XXXI:
  • *:It seemed to me that Mr. St. John's under lip protruded, and his upper lip curled a moment.
  • (lb) To move in curves.
  • *1977 , (w, Scott O'Dell), Carlota? , p.1:
  • *:Clouds curled down from the mountains.
  • *2007 , John Coyne, The Caddie Who Knew Ben Hogan? , p.97:
  • *:The ball curled to a stop within six inches of the hole.
  • To take part in the sport of curling.
  • :
  • To exercise by bending the arm, wrist, or leg on the exertion against resistance, especially of the biceps.
  • *2008 , Joseph Lee Klapper, The Complete Idiot's Guide to Boosting Your Metabolism? , p.119:
  • *:When curling the weight, bring the barbell up toward the chin, then return it to its starting position. Keep your elbows and upper arms as immobile as possible to isolate the biceps.
  • To twist or form (the hair, etc.) into ringlets.
  • *(George Gascoigne) (c.1535-1577)
  • *:Curl their locks with bodkins and with braid.
  • *
  • *:There was also hairdressing: hairdressing, too, really was hairdressing in those times — no running a comb through it and that was that. It was curled , frizzed, waved, put in curlers overnight, waved with hot tongs;.
  • To deck with, or as if with, curls; to ornament.
  • *(John Milton) (1608-1674)
  • *:Thicker than the snaky locks / That curled Megaera.
  • *(George Herbert) (1593-1633)
  • *:Curling with metaphors a plain intention.
  • To raise in waves or undulations; to ripple.
  • *(John Dryden) (1631-1700)
  • *:Seas would be pools without the brushing air / To curl the waves.
  • (lb) To shape (the brim of a hat) into a curve.

    • Synonyms

    * (to make into a curl or spiral) arch, coil, roll up * (to assume the shape of a curl or spiral) coil, roll up * (to move in curves) curve, spiral

    Antonyms

    * (to make into a curl or spiral) straighten, uncoil, unroll * (to assume the shape of a curl or spiral) straighten, uncoil, unroll

    Derived terms

    * curled * curler * curl up * curl someone's hair * curling * curling iron * curling tongs

    See also

    * coil

    corkscrew

    English

    Noun

  • An implement for opening bottles that are sealed by a cork. Sometimes specifically such an implement that includes a screw-shaped part, or worm.
    • I opened the wine with a corkscrew .
  • * {{quote-book, 1720, , chapter=The Bottle-Scrue, Poems on Several Occasions, page=113, pageurl=http://books.google.com/books?id=Uw8UAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA113
    • , passage=There stood presented to his sight, Or seem'd to stand, the God of wine,
  • * {{quote-journal, 1999, James Lighthill, Biofluiddynamics: A Survey, Contemporary Mathematics, volume=141, page=11, pageurl=http://books.google.com/books?id=nCvG2t02114C&pg=PA11
    • , passage=A corkscrew is designed so that when it is turned it creates effectively a helical undulation pushing it into the cork, whereas rotation in the opposite sense pulls it out.}}
  • * {{quote-book, 2006, Costas Katsigris & Chris Thomas, The Bar and Beverage Book, pageurl=http://books.google.com/books?id=gtKOyU9ci1MC&pg=PA152, page=152, edition=4th ed.
    • , passage=A two-prong or ah-so corkscrew with sheath.}}
  • The screw-shaped worm of a typical corkscrew.
  • * {{quote-book, 1898, , First Principles of a New System of Philosophy citation
    • , passage=A bubble rising rapidly in water describes a spiral closely resembling a corkscrew .}}
  • (boxing, martial arts) A type of sharp, twisting punch, often one thrown close and from the side.
  • * {{quote-book, 2002, Darin Strauss, The Real McCoy, page=42 citation
    • , passage=
  • (amusement rides) A type of inversion used in roller coasters.
  • * {{quote-news, 1987, September, Tim Cole, Killer Coasters, Popular Mechanics citation
    • , passage=A corkscrew has a 90° turn just prior to the loop and a 90° turn just afterward.}}

    Synonyms

    * (implement for opening bottles) bottle screw, cork puller

    Hypernyms

    * bottle opener

    Coordinate terms

    * (other types of bottle opener) church key, wine key

    Hyponyms

    * (types of corkscrew bottle opener) waiter's friend; wing corkscrew; butler's friend

    Derived terms

    * corkscrewlike * corkscrewy * corkscrew flower * corkscrew grass * corkscrew stroke

    External links

    * (wikipedia "corkscrew")

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Having the tightly winding shape of a corkscrew.
  • * 1841 , , chapter I
    • Then the old gentleman spun himself round with velocity in the opposite direction, continued to spin until his long cloak was all wound neatly about him, clapped his cap on his head, very much on one side (for it could not stand upright without going through the ceiling), gave an additional twist to his corkscrew mustaches, and replied with perfect coolness.
  • * 1885 ,
    • All the heat of a decade of fierce Indian summers is stored in the pitch-black, polished walls of the corkscrew staircase.

    Synonyms

    * (having a tightly winding shape) helical

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To wind or twist in the manner of a corkscrew; to move with much horizontal and vertical shifting.
  • * 1832 , , chapter 35
    • Into the tea–room Mr. Pickwick turned; and catching sight of him, Mr. Bantam corkscrewed his way through the crowd and welcomed him with ecstasy.
  • * 1916 , , chapter 10
    • The street corkscrewed endlessly. Sometimes it seemed to stop; then it found a hole in the opposing masonry and edged its way in.
  • * 1960 , , chapter 5:
    • Far off to starboard an Atlantic liner, all lights blazing, came towards us, corkscrewing with a motion which must have left the passengers unhappy.
  • To cause something to twist or move in a spiral path or shape.
  • * 1851 , , chapter 134:
    • Caught and twisted—corkscrewed in the mazes of the line, loose harpoons and lances, with all their bristling barbs and points, came flashing and dripping up to the chocks in the bows of Ahab’s boat.
  • * 2006 , Rocky Raab, Baggy Zero Four , page 155:
    • Rusty corkscrewed the plane back down again, but instead of mashing the throttles to the wall, he pulled them to idle.
  • * 2007 , Mike Monahan, Barracuda , page 107:
    • Soon he was corkscrewed into place, suspended from the ceiling in an impossible maze of unforgiving circuitry.
  • To extract information or consent from someone.
  • * 1852 , , Chapter 55:
    • I strongly suspect (from what Small has dropped, and from what we have corkscrewed out of him) that those letters I was to have brought to your ladyship were not destroyed when I supposed they were.
  • * 1922 , , in Hearings Before the Committee on Agriculture and Forestry [http://books.google.com/books?id=lFYQAAAAIAAJ], page 460:
    • Yes, I believe you did after it was corkscrewed out of you, but I got the impression at the outset that you were, just as willing to let it stand there.

    Synonyms

    * (move in a corkscrew path) spiral