Curl vs. Spiral

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

Spiralnoun

(geometry) A curve that is the locus of a point that rotates about a fixed point while continuously increasing its distance from that point.

Spiralnoun

(informal) A helix.

Spiralnoun

A self-sustaining process with a lot of momentum involved, so it is difficult to accelerate or stop it at once.

Spiraladjective

Helical, like a spiral

Spiralverb

(intransitive) To move along the path of a spiral or helix.

Spiralverb

(transitive) To cause something to spiral.

Spiralverb

To increase continually.

Spiraladjective

Winding or circling round a center or pole and gradually receding from it; as, the spiral curve of a watch spring.

Spiraladjective

Winding round a cylinder or imaginary axis, and at the same time rising or advancing forward; winding like the thread of a screw; helical.

Spiraladjective

Of or pertaining to a spiral; like a spiral.

Spiralnoun

A plane curve, not reëntrant, described by a point, called the generatrix, moving along a straight line according to a mathematical law, while the line is revolving about a fixed point called the pole. Cf. Helix.

Spiralnoun

Anything which has a spiral form, as a spiral shell.

Spiralnoun

a plane curve traced by a point circling about the center but at ever-greater distances from it

Spiralnoun

a curve that lies on the surface of a cylinder or cone and cuts the element at a constant angle

Spiralnoun

ornament consisting of a curve on a plane that winds around a center with an increasing distance from the center

Spiralnoun

a structure consisting of something wound in a continuous series of loops;

Spiralnoun

flying downward in a helical path with a large radius

Spiralverb

to wind or move in a spiral course;

Spiralverb

form a spiral;

Spiralverb

move in a spiral or zigzag course

Spiraladjective

in the shape of a coil

Spiral

In mathematics, a spiral is a curve which emanates from a point, moving farther away as it revolves around the point.