curl /kә:l/
Meaning
English definition
- (n.) American chemist who with Richard Smalley and Harold Kroto discovered fullerenes and opened a new branch of chemistry (born in 1933)
- (v.) form a curl, curve, or kink
- (v.) twist or roll into coils or ringlets
Chinese translation
- n. 拳曲, 鬈发
- vt. 弄卷
- vi. 拳曲, 弯曲
Word details
- Part of speech
- verb / noun
- Pronunciation
- /kә:l/
- Syllables
- 1
- Exam levels
- CET-4 · CET-6 · Postgraduate exam · IELTS
- Frequency
- Zipf 3.52 · Rare
Word forms
curled, curling, curls
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