curl: translation
•Roman•
I.•/Roman•
noun
1 piece of hair
ADJECTIVE
▪ natural
▪ loose, soft, wavy
▪ tight
▪ little
▪ thick
▪ long
▪ corkscrew, spiral
▪ auburn, blonde, dark, etc.
▪ slight
▪ His hair had a slight curl to it.
▪ stray
▪ She pushed a stray curl away from her eyes.
▪ tangled, unruly, untamed
▪ She smoothed down her tangled curls.
▪ damp
VERB + CURL
▪ have
▪ She has beautiful blonde curls.
▪ press back, push back, smooth back, stroke back
▪ smooth down
▪ ruffle, run your fingers through
▪ tease
▪ He carefully teased his curls into place.
▪ shake
▪ She shook her dark curls sadly.
▪ brush
CURL + VERB
▪ fall, tumble
▪ Her auburn curls tumbled about her face.
▪ hang
▪ bounce
▪ frame sth
▪ Her face was framed by a mop of black curls.
PREPOSITION
▪ in curls
▪ His hair spilled in curls over his forehead.
▪ through the/your curls
▪ She raked a comb through her curls.
PHRASES
▪ a cascade of curls, a mass of curls, a mop of curls
▪ Her hair was styled into a cascade of spiral curls.
▪ lose its curl
▪ Her hair lost its curl as she got older.
2 sth with a curved round shape
ADJECTIVE
▪ faint
▪ He acknowledged her remark with a faint curl of his lips.
PREPOSITION
▪ curl of
•Roman•
II.•/Roman•
verb
ADVERB
▪ tightly
▪ slightly
▪ back, up
▪ She curled her legs up under her.
PREPOSITION
▪ around, round (esp.BrE)
▪ His fingers curled tightly around the steering wheel.
▪ from
▪ Smoke was curling up from the chimney.
▪ into
▪ The cat curled into a ball and fell asleep.
PHRASES
▪ curled up
▪ She was lying curled up on her bed.
▪ curl (up) at the edges
▪ The photograph was brown and curling at the edges.
Curl is used with these nouns as the subject: ↑fist, ↑hair, ↑lip, ↑mouth, ↑smoke, ↑toe
Curl is used with these nouns as the object: ↑eyelash, ↑finger, ↑hair, ↑lip, ↑toe