Crimp vs. Curl
Crimpadjective
(obsolete) Easily crumbled; friable; brittle.
Crimpadjective
(obsolete) Weak; inconsistent; contradictory.
Crimpnoun
A fastener or a fastening method that secures parts by bending metal around a joint and squeezing it together, often with a tool that adds indentations to capture the parts.
Crimpnoun
The natural curliness of wool fibres.
Crimpnoun
Hair that is shaped so it bends back and forth in many short kinks.
Crimpnoun
(obsolete) A card game.
Crimpnoun
An agent who procures seamen, soldier, etc., especially by decoying, entrapping, impressing, or seducing them.
Crimpnoun
One who infringes sub-section 1 of the Merchant Shipping Act of 1854, applied to a person other than the owner, master, etc., who engages seamen without a license from the Board of Trade.
Crimpnoun
(obsolete) A keeper of a low lodging house where sailors and emigrants are entrapped and fleeced.
Crimpverb
To press into small ridges or folds, to pleat, to corrugate.
Crimpverb
(electricity) To fasten by bending metal so that it squeezes around the parts to be fastened.
Crimpverb
To pinch and hold; to seize.
Crimpverb
To style hair into a crimp, to form hair into tight curls, to make it kinky.
Crimpverb
(transitive) To impress (seamen or soldiers); to entrap, to decoy.
Crimpverb
To fold or plait in regular undulation in such a way that the material will retain the shape intended; to give a wavy appearance to; as, to crimp the border of a cap; to crimp a ruffle. Cf. Crisp.
Crimpverb
To pinch and hold; to seize.
Crimpverb
to entrap into the military or naval service; as, to crimp seamen.
Crimpverb
To cause to contract, or to render more crisp, as the flesh of a fish, by gashing it, when living, with a knife; as, to crimp skate, etc.
Crimpverb
In cartridge making, to fold the edge of (a cartridge case) inward so as to close the mouth partly and confine the charge.
Crimpadjective
Easily crumbled; friable; brittle.
Crimpadjective
Weak; inconsistent; contradictory.
Crimpnoun
A coal broker.
Crimpnoun
One who decoys or entraps men into the military or naval service.
Crimpnoun
A keeper of a low lodging house where sailors and emigrants are entrapped and fleeced.
Crimpnoun
Hair which has been crimped; - usually in pl.
Crimpnoun
A game at cards.
Crimpnoun
an angular or rounded shape made by folding;
Crimpnoun
someone who tricks or coerces men into service as sailors or soldiers
Crimpnoun
a lock of hair that has been artificially waved or curled
Crimpverb
make ridges into by pinching together
Crimpverb
curl tightly;
Curlnoun
A piece or lock of curling hair; a ringlet.
Curlnoun
A curved stroke or shape.
Curlnoun
A spin making the trajectory of an object curve.
Curlnoun
(curling) Movement of a moving rock away from a straight line.
Curlnoun
(weightlifting) Any exercise performed by bending the arm, wrist, or leg on the exertion against resistance, especially those that train the biceps.
Curlnoun
(calculus) The vector field denoting the rotationality of a given vector field.
Curlnoun
The vector operator, denoted \rm{curl}\; or \vec{\nabla}\times\vec{\left(\cdot\right)}, that generates this field.
Curlnoun
(agriculture) Any of various diseases of plants causing the leaves or shoots to curl up; often specifically the potato curl.
Curlnoun
The contrasting light and dark figure seen in wood used for stringed instrument making; the flame.
Curlnoun
(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.
Curlverb
(transitive) To cause to move in a curve.
Curlverb
(transitive) To make into a curl or spiral.
Curlverb
(intransitive) To assume the shape of a curl or spiral.
Curlverb
(intransitive) To move in curves.
Curlverb
To take part in the sport of curling.
Curlverb
To exercise by bending the arm, wrist, or leg on the exertion against resistance, especially of the biceps.
Curlverb
To twist or form (the hair, etc.) into ringlets.
Curlverb
To deck with, or as if with, curls; to ornament.
Curlverb
To raise in waves or undulations; to ripple.
Curlverb
(hat-making) To shape (the brim of a hat) into a curve.
Curlverb
To twist or form into ringlets; to crisp, as the hair.
Curlverb
To twist or make onto coils, as a serpent's body.
Curlverb
To deck with, or as with, curls; to ornament.
Curlverb
To raise in waves or undulations; to ripple.
Curlverb
To shape (the brim) into a curve.
Curlverb
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.
Curlverb
To move in curves, spirals, or undulations; to contract in curving outlines; to bend in a curved form; to make a curl or curls.
Curlverb
To play at the game called curling.
Curlnoun
A ringlet, especially of hair; anything of a spiral or winding form.
Curlnoun
An undulating or waving line or streak in any substance, as wood, glass, etc.; flexure; sinuosity.
Curlnoun
A disease in potatoes, in which the leaves, at their first appearance, seem curled and shrunken.
Curlnoun
a round shape formed by a series of concentric circles
Curlnoun
American chemist who with Richard Smalley and Harold Kroto discovered fullerenes and opened a new branch of chemistry (born in 1933)
Curlnoun
a strand or cluster of hair
Curlverb
form a curl, curve, or kink;
Curlverb
shape one's body into a curl;
Curlverb
wind around something in coils or loops
Curlverb
twist or roll into coils or ringlets;
Curlverb
play the Scottish game of curling
