curling
See also: Curling
English
a curling rink
Pronunciation
Noun
curling (countable and uncountable, plural curlings)
- The action or motion of something that curls or is curled.
- Shackerley Marmion
- Wherefore are all your sleekings, and your curlings,
Crispings, and paintings, and your skin made soft,
And your face smooth with ointments […]
- Wherefore are all your sleekings, and your curlings,
- curlings of smoke
- a scornful curling of the lip
- Shackerley Marmion
- (uncountable) A winter sport where players aim and slide stones down a sheet of ice and attempt to get their color stones closest to the house (a circular target marked on the ice).
Coordinate terms
Translations
sports
Finnish
Declension
| Inflection of curling (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | curling | — | |
| genitive | curlingin | — | |
| partitive | curlingia | — | |
| illative | curlingiin | — | |
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | curling | — | |
| accusative | nom. | curling | — |
| gen. | curlingin | ||
| genitive | curlingin | — | |
| partitive | curlingia | — | |
| inessive | curlingissa | — | |
| elative | curlingista | — | |
| illative | curlingiin | — | |
| adessive | curlingilla | — | |
| ablative | curlingilta | — | |
| allative | curlingille | — | |
| essive | curlingina | — | |
| translative | curlingiksi | — | |
| instructive | — | — | |
| abessive | curlingitta | — | |
| comitative | — | — | |
Synonyms
- (sport): kurlaus (informal)
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kœʁ.liŋ/
Derived terms
Portuguese
Swedish
Declension
| Declension of curling | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Uncountable | ||||
| Indefinite | Definite | |||
| Nominative | curling | curlingen | — | — |
| Genitive | curlings | curlingens | — | — |
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