| 单词 | coiled |
| 释义 | coiled (once / 2078 pages) adj Anything that's coiled is arranged in a tight circle of rings. If you can stomach it, picture a coiled snake and you'll get the idea. New sailors have to watch out for swinging sails overhead and coiled rope underfoot. Your pet snakes might sleep in a coiled heap, and your little sister's fancy hairdo may consist of many coiled sections of hair pinned to her scalp. The adjective coiled describes something that takes the shape of a coil, a circle, ring, or spiral. The Latin root is colligere, "to gather together." WORD FAMILYcoil: coiled, coiling, coils, recoil, uncoil+/recoil: recoiled, recoiling, recoilless, recoils/uncoil: uncoiled, uncoiling, uncoils USAGE EXAMPLES"A coiled spring of money flow may need to shift back over to biotech." Reuters(Dec 06, 2016) There’s another reptile with a temper, the Cuban boa, tightly coiled in the shade of a small tree trunk. New York Times(Nov 30, 2016) Can you believe people once inserted tiny canisters of coiled, light-sensitive plastic in boxes of metal and glass? Washington Post(Nov 28, 2016) adj curled or wound (especially in concentric rings or spirals) a coiled snake ready to strike the rope lay coiled on the deck Syn|Ant coiling, helical, spiral, spiraling, turbinate, volute, voluted, whorled in the shape of a coil convolute, convolutedrolled longitudinally upon itself involute(of some shells) closely coiled so that the axis is obscured involute, rolledespecially of petals or leaves in bud; having margins rolled inward woundput in a coil straight, uncoiled no longer coiled uncurlednot curled |
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