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curl | round |

As nouns the difference between curl and round

is that curl is a piece or lock of curling hair; a ringlet while round is a circular or spherical object or part of an object or round can be (archaic|or|dialectal|northern england|scotland) a whisper; whispering.

As verbs the difference between curl and round

is that curl is (lb) to cause to move in a curve while round is to shape something into a curve or round can be (intransitive|archaic|or|dialectal|northern england|scotland) to speak in a low tone; whisper; speak secretly; take counsel.

As an adjective round is

(label) shape.

As a preposition round is

alternative form of around.

As an adverb round is

.

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

    round

    English

    (wikipedia round)

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) ront, runt ( > French rond), representing an earlier , from (etyl) rotundus ( > Italian rotondo, Provençal redon, Spanish redondo etc.). The noun developed partly from the adjective and partly from the corresponding (etyl) noun rond. Compare rotund and rotunda.

    Adjective

    (en-adj)
  • (label) Shape.
  • # Circular or cylindrical; having a circular cross-section in one direction.
  • # Spherical; shaped like a ball; having a circular cross-section in more than one direction.
  • # Lacking sharp angles; having gentle curves.
  • # Plump.
  • #*
  • #*:If I close my eyes I can see Marie today as I saw her then. Round , rosy face, snub nose, dark hair piled up in a chignon.
  • Complete, whole, not lacking.
  • * (1809-1892)
    • Round was their pace at first, but slackened soon.
  • (label) Convenient for ing other numbers to; for example, ending in a zero.
  • (label) Pronounced with the lips drawn together.
  • Outspoken; plain and direct; unreserved; not mincing.
  • * (Matthew Arnold) (1822-1888)
    • the round assertion
  • * (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
    • Sir Toby, I must be round with you.
  • Finished; polished; not defective or abrupt; said of authors or their writing style.
  • * (Henry Peacham) (1578-c.1644)
    • In his satires Horace is quick, round , and pleasant.
  • Consistent; fair; just; applied to conduct.
  • * (Francis Bacon) (1561-1626)
    • Round dealing is the honour of man's nature.
    Synonyms
    * (circular) circular, cylindrical, discoid * (spherical) spherical * (of corners that lack sharp angles) rounded * (plump) plump, rotund * (not lacking) complete, entire, whole * (of a number) rounded * (pronounced with the mouth open) rounded
    Derived terms
    * round angle
    Derived terms
    {{der3, roundabout , round dozen , round-table , round the clock , round trip , rounded vowel}}

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A circular or spherical object or part of an object.
  • *(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
  • *:the golden round [the crown]
  • *(John Milton) (1608-1674)
  • *:in labyrinth of many a round self-rolled
  • *
  • *:Serene, smiling, enigmatic, she faced him with no fear whatever showing in her dark eyes.She put back a truant curl from her forehead where it had sought egress to the world, and looked him full in the face now, drawing a deep breath which caused the round of her bosom to lift the lace at her throat.
  • *1955 , (William Golding), , Faber and Faber 2005, p.50:
  • *:All at once the sun was through, a round of dulled silver, racing slantwise through the clouds yet always staying in the same place.
  • A circular or repetitious route.
  • :
  • :
  • *, chapter=15
    • , title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=Edward Churchill still attended to his work in a hopeless mechanical manner like a sleep-walker who walks safely on a well-known round . But his Roman collar galled him, his cossack stifled him, his biretta was as uncomfortable as a merry-andrew's cap and bells.}}
  • A general outburst from a group of people at an event.
  • :
  • A song that is sung by groups of people with each subset of people starting at a different time.
  • A serving of something; a portion of something to each person in a group.
  • :
  • *(Charles Dickens), (Dombey and Son)
  • *:There is a snaky gleam in her hard grey eye, as of anticipated rounds of buttered toast, relays of hot chops, worryings and quellings of young children, sharp snappings at poor Berry, and all the other delights of her Ogress's castle.
  • A single individual portion or dose of medicine.
  • *2009 , Patrick Condon, "Boy with cancer, mom return home", Associated Press, printed in Austin American-Statesman , 2009 May 26, page A4:
  • *:Daniel underwent one round of chemotherapy in February but stopped after that single treatment, citing religious beliefs.
  • (lb) A long-bristled, circular-headed paintbrush used in oil and acrylic painting.
  • A firearm cartridge, bullet, or any individual ammunition projectile. Originally referring to the spherical projectile ball of a smoothbore firearm. Compare round shot and solid shot.
  • (lb) One of the specified pre-determined segments of the total time of a sport event, such as a boxing or wrestling match, during which contestants compete before being signaled to stop.
  • *April 19 2002 , Scott Tobias, AV Club Fightville [http://www.avclub.com/articles/fightville,72589/]
  • *:And though Fightville, an MMA documentary from the directors of the fine Iraq War doc Gunner Palace, presents it more than fairly, the sight of a makeshift ring getting constructed on a Louisiana rodeo ground does little to shake the label. Nor do the shots of ringside assistants with spray bottles and rags, mopping up the blood between rounds
  • (lb) A stage in a competition.
  • :
  • (lb) In some sports, e.g. golf or showjumping: one complete way around the course.
  • A rounded relief or cut at an edge, especially an outside edge, added for a finished appearance and to soften sharp edges.
  • A strip of material with a circular face that covers an edge, gap, or crevice for decorative, sanitary, or security purposes.
  • :
  • (lb) The hindquarters of a bovine.
  • (lb) A rung, as of a ladder.
  • *(John Dryden) (1631-1700)
  • *:All the rounds like Jacob's ladder rise.
  • *1851 , (Herman Melville), (Moby-Dick) ,
  • *:The perpendicular parts of this side ladder, as is usually the case with swinging ones, were of cloth-covered rope, only the rounds were of wood, so that at every step there was a joint.
  • A crosspiece that joins and braces the legs of a chair.
  • A series of changes or events ending where it began; a series of like events recurring in continuance; a cycle; a periodical revolution.
  • :
  • A course of action or conduct performed by a number of persons in turn, or one after another, as if seated in a circle.
  • * (1666-1735)
  • *:Women to cards may be compared: we play / A round or two; which used, we throw away.
  • *(Matthew Prior) (1664-1721)
  • *:The feast was served; the bowl was crowned; / To the king's pleasure went the mirthful round .
  • A series of duties or tasks which must be performed in turn, and then repeated.
  • *(John Keble) (1792-1866)
  • *:the trivial round , the common task
  • A circular dance.
  • *(John Milton) (1608-1674)
  • *:Come, knit hands, and beat the ground, / In a light fantastic round .
  • Rotation, as in office; succession.
  • :(Holyday)
  • A general discharge of firearms by a body of troops in which each soldier fires once.
  • An assembly; a group; a circle.
  • :
  • A brewer's vessel in which the fermentation is concluded, the yeast escaping through the bunghole.
  • (lb) A vessel filled, as for drinking.
  • (lb) A round-top.
  • A round of beef.
    • Synonyms
    * (song) canon * (hindquarters of a bovine) rump
    Antonyms
    * (rounded inside edge) fillet
    Derived terms
    * round of applause

    Preposition

    (English prepositions)
  • Alternative form of around.
    • I look round the room quickly to make sure it's neat.
  • * Cowper
    • The serpent Error twines round human hearts.
    Derived terms
    * go round * look round

    Adverb

    (-)
  • * Sir Walter Scott
    • The invitations were sent round accordingly.

    Verb

  • To shape something into a curve.
    • The carpenter rounded the edges of the table.
  • * Francis Bacon
    • Worms with many feet, which round themselves into balls, are bred chiefly under logs of timber.
  • * Addison
    • The figures on our modern medals are raised and rounded to a very great perfection.
  • To become shaped into a curve.
  • * 1900 , , The House Behind the Cedars , Chapter I,
    • The girl's figure, he perceived, was admirably proportioned; she was evidently at the period when the angles of childhood were rounding into the promising curves of adolescence.
  • To finish; to complete; to fill out.
    • She rounded out her education with only a single mathematics class.
  • * Shakespeare
    • We are such stuff / As dreams are made on, and our little life / Is rounded with a sleep.
  • To approximate a number, especially a decimal number by the closest whole number.
    • Ninety-five rounds up to one hundred.
  • To turn past a boundary.
    • Helen watched him until he rounded the corner.
  • To turn and attack someone or something (used with on ).
    • As a group of policemen went past him, one of them rounded on him, grabbing him by the arm.
  • (baseball) To advance to home plate.
    • And the runners round the bases on the double by Jones.
  • To go round, pass, go past.
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2011 , date=March 2 , author=Andy Campbell , title=Celtic 1 - 0 Rangers , work=BBC citation , page= , passage=Diouf rounded Zaluska near the byeline and crossed but Daniel Majstorovic headed away and Celtic eventually mopped up the danger.}}
  • To encircle; to encompass.
  • * Shakespeare
    • The inclusive verge / Of golden metal that must round my brow.
  • To grow round or full; hence, to attain to fullness, completeness, or perfection.
  • * Shakespeare
    • The queen your mother rounds apace.
  • * Tennyson
    • So rounds he to a separate mind, / From whence clear memory may begin.
  • (obsolete) To go round, as a guard; to make the rounds.
  • * Milton
    • They nightly rounding walk.
  • (obsolete) To go or turn round; to wheel about.
    • (Tennyson)
    Derived terms
    * round off * round out * round up * round down

    See also

    * 'round

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) rounen, from (etyl) . More at (l).

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (intransitive, archaic, or, dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) To speak in a low tone; whisper; speak secretly; take counsel.
  • (transitive, archaic, or, dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) To address or speak to in a whisper, utter in a whisper.
    • (Shakespeare)
    (Holland)
  • * Calderwood
    • The Bishop of Glasgow rounding' in his ear, "Ye are not a wise man," he ' rounded likewise to the bishop, and said, "Wherefore brought ye me here?"

    Etymology 3

    From (etyl) roun, from (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (archaic, or, dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) A whisper; whispering.
  • (archaic, or, dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) Discourse; song.

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