coil
see also: Coil, COIL
Pronunciation Etymology 1
Coil
Proper noun
COIL
Noun
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see also: Coil, COIL
Pronunciation Etymology 1
From Middle English coilen, from Old French coillir, cuillir (modern French cueillir), from Latin colligō, past participle collectus, from com- ("together") + legō; compare legend.
Nouncoil (plural coils)
- Something wound in the form of a helix or spiral.
- the sinuous coils of a snake
- 1819 June 23 – 1820 September 13, Geoffrey Crayon [pseudonym; Washington Irving], “(please specify the title)”, in The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent., New York, N.Y.: […] C[ornelius] S. Van Winkle, […], →OCLC ↗:
- The wild grapevines that twisted their coils or tendrils from tree to tree.
- Any intrauterine device (abbreviation: IUD)—the first IUDs were coil-shaped.
- (electronics) A coil of electrically conductive wire through which electricity can flow.
- Synonyms: inductor
- A cylinder of clay.
- (figurative) Entanglement; perplexity.
- a. 1722, Matthew Prior, “Human Life”, in H. Bunker Wright, Monroe K. Spears, editors, The Literary Works of Matthew Prior, Second edition, volume I, Oxford: Clarendon Press, published 1971, page 687:
- What trifling coil do we mortals keep;
Wake, eat, and drink, evacuate, and sleep.
- French: spire
- German: Spirale, Wickel, Rolle, Windung
- Italian: spirale
- Portuguese: espiral
- Russian: спира́ль
- Spanish: espiral, hélice
- French: bobine
- German: Spule
- Italian: bobina
- Portuguese: bobina
- Russian: кату́шка
- Spanish: bobina, bobinado
coil (coils, present participle coiling; simple past and past participle coiled)
- To wind or reel e.g. a wire or rope into regular rings, often around a centerpiece.
- A simple transformer can be made by coiling two pieces of insulated copper wire around an iron heart.
- To wind into loops (roughly) around a common center.
- The sailor coiled the free end of the hawser on the pier.
- To wind cylindrically or spirally.
- to coil a rope when not in use
- The snake coiled itself before springing.
- To build a pot (etc) with clay coils.
- (obsolete, rare) To encircle and hold with, or as if with, coils.
- a. 1757, Thomas Edwards (critic), sonnet to Mr. Nathanael Mason
- Pleasure coil thee in her dangerous snare
- a. 1757, Thomas Edwards (critic), sonnet to Mr. Nathanael Mason
- French: enrouler, embobiner
- Portuguese: enrolar
- Russian: свёртывать
- Portuguese: enrolar
- Russian: нама́тывать
- Spanish: enrollar
coil (plural coils)
- (now, obsolete except in phrases) A noise, tumult, bustle, or turmoil.
- a. 1738, Thomas Urquhart, Peter Anthony Motteux, and John Ozell (translators), François Rabelais, Gargantua and Pantagruel
- And when he saw that all the dogs were flocking about her, yarring at the retardment of their access to her, and every way keeping such a coil with her as they are wont to do about a proud or salt bitch, he forthwith departed […]
- c. 1588–1593 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Lamentable Tragedy of Titus Andronicus”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC ↗, [Act III, (please specify the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals)]:
- If the windes rage, doth not the Sea wax mad, / Threatning the welkin with his big-swolne face? / And wilt thou haue a reason for this coile?
- 1704, [Jonathan Swift], “Section IV”, in A Tale of a Tub. […], London: […] John Nutt, […], →OCLC ↗, pages 99–100 ↗:
- [T]hey continued ſo extremely fond of Gold, that if Peter ſent them abroad, though it were only upon a Complement; they would Roar, and Spit, and Belch, and Piſs, and Fart, and Snivle out Fire, and keep a perpetual Coyl, till you flung them a Bit of Gold; [...]
- a. 1738, Thomas Urquhart, Peter Anthony Motteux, and John Ozell (translators), François Rabelais, Gargantua and Pantagruel
coil
Translations- Russian: шум
Coil
Proper noun
COIL
Noun
coil (plural coils)
- Abbreviation of chemical oxygen-iodine laser
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