coil: Meaning and Definition of
coil
Pronunciation: (koil), [key] — v.t.
- to wind into continuous, regularly spaced rings one above the other: to coil a wire around a pencil.
- to wind on a flat surface into rings one around the other: He coiled the rope on the deck.
- to gather (rope, wire, etc.) into loops: She coiled the garden hose and hung it on the hook.
—v.i. - to form rings, spirals, etc.; gather or retract in a circular way: The snake coiled, ready to strike.
- to move in or follow a winding course: The river coiled through the valley.
—n. - a connected series of spirals or rings into which a rope or the like is wound.
- a single such ring.
- an arrangement of pipes, coiled or in a series, as in a radiator.
- a continuous pipe having inlet and outlet, or flow and return ends.
- an intrauterine device.
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- a conductor, as a copper wire, wound up in a spiral or other form.
- a device composed essentially of such a conductor.
- Seeignition coil.
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- a stamp issued in a roll, usually of 500 stamps, and usually perforated vertically or horizontally only.
- a roll of such stamps.
coil
Pronunciation: (koil), [key] — n.
- a noisy disturbance; commotion; tumult.
- trouble; bustle; ado.
Random House Unabridged Dictionary, Copyright © 1997, by Random House, Inc., on Infoplease.