Curl vs. Swirl

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

Swirlverb

(ambitransitive) To twist or whirl, as an eddy.

Swirlverb

To be arranged in a twist, spiral or whorl.

Swirlverb

(figuratively) to circulate

Swirlnoun

A whirling eddy.

Swirlnoun

A twist or coil of something.

Swirlnoun

(fishing) The upward rushing of a fish through the water to take the bait.

Swirlverb

To whirl, or cause to whirl, as in an eddy.

Swirlnoun

A whirling motion; an eddy, as of water; a whirl.

Swirlnoun

the shape of something rotating rapidly

Swirlverb

turn in a twisting or spinning motion;

Swirlverb

flow in a circular current, of liquids