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Your online posts can continue after you have logged off this mortal coil.With one legendary rock star after another shuffling off this mortal coil, it has been a terrible year.The more important buildings are protected by concrete blast barriers and coiled razor wire.Yet stories can coil around our snake sightings.When forced to sit still he was like a coiled spring.He feasted his eyes upon the brilliant hair coiled in a glorious mass upon her head.The thick smell of magic coiled around the meadow.We keep them like coiled springs and only let them loose at the races.How many other things must be crammed in before this mortal coil is shuffled off?The snake then begins to coil itself slowly around the goat.Our creative sector is like a coiled spring just waiting to be set free.If an iron bar is placed within the coil core then it is moved by the magnetic field.At times it feels as though she is tripping over herself to release all the pacy phrases coiled in her mind.It was my coil of hair.The support should be good, with proper springs and not cheap wire coils.The squat 1930s building is almost entirely obscured by huge blast walls and coiled razor wire.Release after five seconds and coil the hair against your head, securing with a clip.It's as if she keeps that emotional core coiled up inside, ready to be unleashed only in a fabulous operatic performance.Each morning, under strict direction, my mother would comb out my hair and wind it into coils on either side of my head.

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coil

British English: coil NOUN
A coil of rope or wire is a length of it that has been wound into a series of loops.
He shook his head angrily and slung the coil of rope over his shoulder.
  • American English: coil
  • Brazilian Portuguese: rolo
  • Chinese: 一圈
  • European Spanish: rollo
  • French: rouleau
  • German: Rolle
  • Italian: rotolo
  • Japanese:
  • Korean: 둥글게 감아 놓은 것
  • European Portuguese: bobina
  • Latin American Spanish: rollo

All related terms of 'coil'

Chinese translation of 'coil'

coil

(kɔɪl)

n (c)

  1. [of rope, wire] (juǎn)
  2. (= loop) (quān)
  3. (Aut, Elec) 线(線)圈 (xiànquān)
  4. (= contraceptive) 子宫(宮)节(節)育环(環) (zǐgōng jiéyù huán)

vt

  1. [rope etc] (also coil up) 卷(捲) (juǎn)

vi

  1. [rope etc] 盘(盤)绕(繞) (pánrào)
(noun) 
Definition
a single loop of such a series
Tess slung the coil of rope over her shoulder.
Synonyms
loop
She reached for a loop of garden hose.
twist
the bare bulb hanging from a twist of flex
curl
A thick curl of smoke rose from the rusty stove.
spiral
Larks were rising in spirals from the ridge.
twirl
(verb) 
Definition
to wind or be wound into loops
I turned off the water and began to coil the hose.
Synonyms
wind
She wound the sash round her waist.
twist
She twisted her hair into a bun.
curl
Smoke was curling up the chimney.
loop
He looped the rope over the wood.
spiral
Smoke spiralled from a joss stick.
twine
These strands of molecules twine around each other.
(verb) 
Definition
to move in a winding course
A python had coiled itself around the branch of the tree.
Synonyms
curl
wind
The Moselle winds through some 160 miles of tranquil countryside.
twist
snake
The road snaked through the forested mountains.
loop
entwine
I reached over and entwined our fingers.
twine
They twined their fingers together.
wreathe
The temple's huge columns were wreathed in laurels.
convolute

Additional synonyms

in the sense of entwine
Definition
to twist together or round something else
I reached over and entwined our fingers.
Synonyms
twist,
surround,
embrace,
weave,
knit,
braid,
encircle,
wind,
intertwine,
interweave,
plait,
twine,
ravel,
interlace,
entwist (archaic)
in the sense of snake
Definition
to glide or move in a winding course, like a snake
The road snaked through the forested mountains.
Synonyms
wind,
twist,
curve,
turn,
bend,
ramble,
meander,
deviate,
zigzag
in the sense of spiral
Definition
something that follows a winding course or that has a twisting form
Larks were rising in spirals from the ridge.
Synonyms
coil,
helix,
corkscrew,
whorl,
screw,
gyre (literary),
curlicue,
volute

Synonyms of 'coil'

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