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US
/ˈkɔɪɫ/
]
[ UK /kˈɔɪl/ ]
[ UK /kˈɔɪl/ ]
NOUN
- a transformer that supplies high voltage to spark plugs in a gasoline engine
- reactor consisting of a spiral of insulated wire that introduces inductance into a circuit
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a structure consisting of something wound in a continuous series of loops
a coil of rope - tubing that is wound in a spiral
- a round shape formed by a series of concentric circles (as formed by leaves or flower petals)
- a contraceptive device placed inside a woman's womb
VERB
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to wind or move in a spiral course
the young people gyrated on the dance floor
black smoke coiling up into the sky
the muscles and nerves of his fine drawn body were coiling for action - wind around something in coils or loops
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make without a potter's wheel
This famous potter hand-builds all of her vessels
How To Use coil In A Sentence
- The recoil from the shot blew James onto his back, unconscious once again.
- I picked up the free end, causing the coils to rustle like party streamers.
- Kundalini literally means'coiling,'like a snake.
- The bladelike projections behaved like serpents, attacking and recoiling repeatedly. Reap the Whirlwind
- One end of the clay cord was formed into a loop and fastened with a smaller coil of clay wrapped around it.
- This hilch named Weightbearing told me you’re supposed to be a whiz with some guts you designed for yourself that generate high-rev gravity pockets—higher even than Triss coils manage. September « 2009 « Fantasy Author's Handbook
- There is no shame in favoring the .30 and below calibers because of recoil issues ... or just practical financial reasons. 270WSM....for moose?
- These low-aspect-ratio stellarator-tokamak hybrids differ from conventional stellarators in their use of the plasma-generated bootstrap current to supplement the poloidal field from external coils.
- It is not permitted to set up a Gaelscoil in the 'Gaeltacht' by the way. Slugger O'Toole
- Absently coiling a blonde curl around her fingers she re-examined the office she was gradually growing familiar with.
