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curl

/kəːl/

US pronunciation
American sound/kəːl/
curl
Syllables
1 syllable
Stress
One strong syllable
Vowel
Schwa vowel
Ending
Clear final sound

US voice -> curl

Myanmar meaning

(n) အခွေအလိပ်။ အတွန့်အလိမ်။ (v) တွန့်သည်။ လိပ်သည်။ တွန့်လိပ်အောင် လုပ်သည်။ ကောက်သည်။ ကော့လန်သည်။ ကွေးလိပ်သည်။ ကွေးလိပ်စေသည်။ အလိပ်လိပ်၊ အလိမ်လိမ် ဖြစ် သည်။ ရစ်လိမ်သည်။

Full entry

curl /kɜ:l/ n [C]

အခွေအလိပ်။ အတွန့်အလိမ်။
curls (of hair) falling over her shoulders ❍ hair falling in curls over her shoulders ❍ the little boy's golden curls (ie curling hair) ❍ a curl of smoke rising from a cigarette ❍ 'Of course not,' he said, with a curl of his lip (ie expressing contempt).
v
၁။ ~ (sth) (up) (က) တွန့်သည်။ လိပ်သည်။ တွန့်လိပ်အောင် လုပ်သည်။ ကောက်သည်။
She has curled (up) her hair. ❍ Does your hair curl naturally?
(ခ) ကော့လန်သည်။ ကွေးလိပ်သည်။ ကွေးလိပ်စေသည်။ The frost made the leaves curl (up). ❍ The heat curled the paper (up). ❍ He lay curled in the corner.
၂။ အလိပ်လိပ်၊ အလိမ်လိမ် ဖြစ် သည်။ ရစ်လိမ်သည်။ The smoke curled lazily upwards. ❍ The plant's tendrils curled up the stick.
❏ curler n (ဆံပင်ကောက်)ဘီးလိပ်။
❏ curl one's lip [IDM ] လှောင်ပြောင်သရော်သည်။ နှုတ်ခမ်း မဲ့ပြသည်။
❏ curl up [PHRV ] ခွေနေသည်။ curl up on the sofa with a good book ❍ The dog lay curled up in fornt of the fire.
❏ curl (sb) up [PHRV ](Brit infml ) ကသိကအောက် ဖြစ် သည်၊ ဖြစ်စေသည်။ [ ဥ ] တွန့်သွားသည်။ My father's bad jokes always make me curl up.
❏ curly adj (-ier, -iest ) တွန့်လိမ်သော။ တွန့်လိမ် ထားသော။ ကောက်ထားသော။ curly hair ❍ a curly pattern ❍ a curly-headed girl.

More examples
  • Jane had short hair curling around her face.
  • As she talked, she curled a strand of hair on one finger.
  • Sam’s hands curled up into fists.
  • Smoke curled from tall chimneys.
  • The pages had begun to turn yellow and curl.
Synonyms
twist, coil, bend, wind, buckle, contort, convolute, corkscrew, crimp, crinkle, crisp, crispation, crook, curlicue, curve, entwine, flourish, fold, form into ringlets, frizz, indent, kink, lap, lock, loop, meander, quirk, ringlet, ripple, roll, scallop, snake, spiral, swirl, turn, twine, twirl, undulate, wave, whorl, wreathe, writhe, zigzag
Antonyms
flatten, line, smooth, straighten, untwist
Cross references
twistcoilbendwindbucklecontortconvolutecorkscrewcrimpcrinklecrispcrispationcrookcurlicuecurveentwineflourishfoldform into ringletsfrizzindentkinklaplockloopmeanderquirkringlet
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