vverb.motionto wind or move in a spiral courseSynset:coil gyrate spiral
Examples:- the muscles and nerves of his fine drawn body were coiling for action
- black smoke coiling up into the sky
- the young people gyrated on the dance floor
Derivationally Related Form:coilspiralgyration
Hypernyms:turn
Inherited Hypernyms:gyrateturnmove
Sentence Frame:Something ---s | Something is ---ing PP
vverb.creationmake without a potter's wheelSynset:coil hand-build handbuild
Examples:- This famous potter hand-builds all of her vessels
Hypernyms:forge form mold mould shape work
Inherited Hypernyms:handbuildshapecreate from raw materialmake
Sentence Frame:Somebody ---s something
vverb.contactwind around something in coils or loopsSynset:coil curl loop
Antonyms:uncoil
Derivationally Related Form:coilcurlloop
Hypernyms:roll twine wind wrap
Inherited Hypernyms:coilwindmove
Sentence Frame:Something is ---ing PP | Somebody ---s something PP | The wires --- around the stick (apply to: coil, loop, curl) | They --- the wire around the stick (apply to: coil, loop, curl)
adjadj.allcurled or wound (especially in concentric rings or spirals)Examples:- a coiled snake ready to strike
- the rope lay coiled on the deck
Antonyms:uncoiled
Inherited Hypernyms:coiled
Similar to:coiling helical spiral spiraling turbinate volute voluted whorled convolute convoluted involute rolled involute wound