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# curly

«curly» in Mova's school dictionary: **having curls, like hair that grows in rings or waves** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 3 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

adjective (curly, curlier, curliest)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Curly means having curls, like hair that grows in rings or waves. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/curly/#m1)

2) Curly means shaped in curves or spirals, like a curly tail or curly writing. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/curly/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday life it describes hair, pig tails, ribbon, fries and lettuce. In maths, curly brackets { } are used for groups of numbers (sets). In stories, curly hair helps readers picture a character. Phrases: «curly hair», «curly fries», «curly brackets».

### examples

- She has long curly red hair. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/curly/#x1)
- A pig has a short curly tail. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/curly/#x2)
- We ate curly fries at the fair. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/curly/#x3)
- Curl the ribbon with scissors to make it curly. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/curly/#x4)
- His writing is very curly and hard to read. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/curly/#x5)
- The baby's hair is getting curlier. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/curly/#x6)
- In some maths books, sets are written in curly brackets. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/curly/#x7)

### note

Comparatives: curlier, curliest (y changes to i). Opposites: «straight» (hair), «flat». Noun «curl», verb «curl». «Curly brackets» are also called braces.

### In the corpora

- [Picture a beach after a storm: among the seaweed lies a black leathery pouch with curly corners.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/311-sharks-by-kind-small-and-strange-walking-sharks-wobbegongs-cookiecutters-and-goblin-sharks/4/)
- [Round follicles grow straight hair and flat or oval follicles grow curly hair, and hair shape is inherited from your family.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/355-hair-growing-curly-and-straight-eyebrows-eyelashes-and-going-grey/8/)
- [When they bow, their curly wigs get tangled, and Alice has to run off to hide her laughter.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/11-alice-ch6-part1-pig-and-pepper/1/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «curly» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/curly/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.