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)
adj satadj.allin the shape of a coilSynset:helical spiral spiraling turbinate volute voluted whorled
Antonyms:uncoiled
Derivationally Related Form:volutehelix
Inherited Hypernyms:coiling
Similar to:coiled