Curl vs. Swirl — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Curl and Swirl
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Curl
To twist (the hair, for example) into ringlets or coils.
Swirl
To move with a twisting or whirling motion; eddy.
Curl
To form into a coiled or spiral shape
Curled the ends of the ribbon.
Swirl
To be dizzy or disoriented.
Curl
To decorate with coiled or spiral shapes.
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Swirl
To be arranged in a spiral, whorl, or twist.
Curl
To raise and turn under (the upper lip), as in snarling or showing scorn.
Swirl
To cause to move with a twisting or whirling motion
Swirled the drink with her straw.
Curl
(Sports) To lift (a weight) by performing a curl.
Swirl
To form into or arrange in a spiral, whorl, or twist.
Curl
To form ringlets or coils.
Swirl
A whirling or eddying motion or mass
A swirl of white water.
Curl
To assume a spiral or curved shape.
Swirl
Something, such as a curl of hair, that coils, twists, or whirls.
Curl
To move in a curve or spiral
The wave curled over the surfer.
Swirl
Whirling confusion or disorder
"high-pressure farce built around the swirl of mistaken identities" (Jay Carr).
Curl
(Sports) To engage in curling.
Swirl
(ambitransitive) To twist or whirl, as an eddy.
I swirled my brush around in the paint.
Curl
Something with a spiral or coiled shape.
Swirl
To be arranged in a twist, spiral or whorl.
Curl
A coil or ringlet of hair.
Swirl
(figuratively) To circulate.
Curl
A treatment in which the hair is curled.
Swirl
To mingle interracially.
Curl
The act of curling
The curl of a meandering river.
Swirl
A whirling eddy.
Curl
The state of being curled.
Swirl
A twist or coil of something.
Curl
(Sports) A weightlifting exercise using one or two hands, in which a weight held at the thigh or to the side of the body is raised to the chest or shoulder and then lowered without moving the upper arms, shoulders, or back.
Swirl
(fishing) The upward rushing of a fish through the water to take the bait.
Curl
Any of various plant diseases in which the leaves roll up.
Swirl
Interracial mingling e.g. dating, sex, marriage, etc..
She told that white boy she wasn't down with the swirl and to take himself a hike.
Curl
A curving piece or lock of hair; a ringlet.
Swirl
To whirl, or cause to whirl, as in an eddy.
Curl
A curved stroke or shape.
Swirl
A whirling motion; an eddy, as of water; a whirl.
Curl
A spin making the trajectory of an object curve.
Swirl
The shape of something rotating rapidly
Curl
(curling) Movement of a moving rock away from a straight line.
Swirl
Turn in a twisting or spinning motion;
The leaves swirled in the autumn wind
Curl
(weightlifting) Any exercise performed by bending the arm, wrist, or leg on the exertion against resistance, especially those that train the biceps.
Swirl
Flow in a circular current, of liquids
Curl
(calculus) The vector field denoting the rotationality of a given vector field.
The curl of the vector field is the vector field .
Curl
The vector operator, denoted or , that generates this field.
Curl
(agriculture) Any of various diseases of plants causing the leaves or shoots to curl up; often specifically the potato curl.
Curl
The contrasting light and dark figure seen in wood used for stringed instrument making; the flame.
The one-piece back is of a medium curl.
Curl
(American football) A pattern where the receiver appears to be running a fly pattern but after a set number of steps or yards quickly stops and turns around, looking for a pass.
Curl
(transitive) To cause to move in a curve.
Curl
(transitive) To make into a curl or spiral.
Curl
(intransitive) To assume the shape of a curl or spiral.
Curl
(intransitive) To move in curves.
Curl
To take part in the sport of curling.
I curl at my local club every weekend.
Curl
To exercise by bending the arm, wrist, or leg on the exertion against resistance, especially of the biceps.
Curl
To twist or form (the hair, etc.) into ringlets.
Curl
To deck with, or as if with, curls; to ornament.
Curl
To raise in waves or undulations; to ripple.
Curl
(hat-making) To shape (the brim of a hat) into a curve.
Curl
To twist or form into ringlets; to crisp, as the hair.
But curl their locks with bodkins and with braid.
Curl
To twist or make onto coils, as a serpent's body.
Of his tortuous train,Curled many a wanton wreath in sight of Eve.
Curl
To deck with, or as with, curls; to ornament.
Thicker than the snaky locksThat curledMegæra.
Curling with metaphors a plain intention.
Curl
To raise in waves or undulations; to ripple.
Seas would be pools without the brushing airTo curl the waves.
Curl
To shape (the brim) into a curve.
Curl
To contract or bend into curls or ringlets, as hair; to grow in curls or spirals, as a vine; to be crinkled or contorted; to have a curly appearance; as, leaves lie curled on the ground.
Thou seest it [hair] will not curl by nature.
Curl
To move in curves, spirals, or undulations; to contract in curving outlines; to bend in a curved form; to make a curl or curls.
Then round her slender waist he curled.
Curling smokes from village tops are seen.
Gayly curl the waves before each dashing prow.
He smiled a king of sickly smile, and curled up on the floor.
Curl
To play at the game called curling.
Curl
A ringlet, especially of hair; anything of a spiral or winding form.
Under a coronet, his flowing hairIn curls on either cheek played.
Curl
An undulating or waving line or streak in any substance, as wood, glass, etc.; flexure; sinuosity.
If the glass of the prisms . . . be without those numberless waves or curls which usually arise from the sand holes.
Curl
A disease in potatoes, in which the leaves, at their first appearance, seem curled and shrunken.
Curl
A round shape formed by a series of concentric circles
Curl
American chemist who with Richard Smalley and Harold Kroto discovered fullerenes and opened a new branch of chemistry (born in 1933)
Curl
A strand or cluster of hair
Curl
Form a curl, curve, or kink;
The cigar smoke curled up at the ceiling
Curl
Shape one's body into a curl;
She curled farther down under the covers
She fell and drew in
Curl
Wind around something in coils or loops
Curl
Twist or roll into coils or ringlets;
Curl my hair, please
Curl
Play the Scottish game of curling
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