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Coil   /kɔɪl/   Listen
Coil

noun
1.
A structure consisting of something wound in a continuous series of loops.  Synonyms: helix, spiral, volute, whorl.
2.
A round shape formed by a series of concentric circles (as formed by leaves or flower petals).  Synonyms: curl, curlicue, gyre, ringlet, roll, scroll, whorl.
3.
A transformer that supplies high voltage to spark plugs in a gasoline engine.
4.
A contraceptive device placed inside a woman's womb.
5.
Tubing that is wound in a spiral.
6.
Reactor consisting of a spiral of insulated wire that introduces inductance into a circuit.
verb
(past & past part. coiled; pres. part. coiling)
1.
To wind or move in a spiral course.  Synonyms: gyrate, spiral.  "Black smoke coiling up into the sky" , "The young people gyrated on the dance floor"
2.
Make without a potter's wheel.  Synonyms: hand-build, handbuild.
3.
Wind around something in coils or loops.  Synonyms: curl, loop.



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"Coil" Quotes from Famous Books



... with its corresponding vein, which at its upper part projects to the outside, and below to the inner side. The artery of the left side is less involved with its vein, which lies below it, and to the inside. The right is in contact with a coil of ileum, the left with the colon. The inferior mesenteric artery crosses the left one, while to the outside of both, and behind them, lie ...
— A Manual of the Operations of Surgery - For the Use of Senior Students, House Surgeons, and Junior Practitioners • Joseph Bell

... redtop, animated or wild oats, blue-joint, and porcupine grass are among them. When mature, the grain and glumes drop off, or are pushed off, and go to the ground. When moist, these awns untwist and straighten out, but when dry they coil up again; with each change they seem to crawl about on the ground and work down to low places or get into all sorts of cracks and crevices, where the first rain is likely to cover them more or less with earth, after which they are ...
— Seed Dispersal • William J. Beal

... be found wrong there. The feed pipe from the gasoline tank was examined, but it seemed to provide a good flow. The timer was adjusted and readjusted. The coil was looked to. Everything, in short, that the boys could think of, or that previous trouble had taught them to look for, was tried, and all with ...
— The Motor Girls on Crystal Bay - The Secret of the Red Oar • Margaret Penrose

... Will was yet a child a disastrous war arose over a great part of the world. The newspapers were full of defeats and victories, the earth rang with cavalry hoofs, and often for days together and for miles around the coil of battle terrified good people from their labours in the field. Of all this, nothing was heard for a long time in the valley; but at last one of the commanders pushed an army over the pass by forced marches, and for three days horse and foot, cannon and tumbril, drum and ...
— The Merry Men - and Other Tales and Fables • Robert Louis Stevenson

... as simple as possible. Six new dry cells were to be taken to provide current. Then there were a spark-gap, a spark-coil, a key, and a detector, with the receiving set, switch, and aerial. To be sure, the entire aerial was not packed, but merely the wires and insulators, as spreaders could be made in the forest. Then there was an additional coil ...
— The Young Wireless Operator--As a Fire Patrol - The Story of a Young Wireless Amateur Who Made Good as a Fire Patrol • Lewis E. Theiss


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