Definition of coil

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Coil (n.) A ring, series of rings, or spiral, into which a rope, or other like thing, is wound..

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Inductorium :: Inductorium (n.) An induction coil.
Tendril :: Tendril (a.) A slender, leafless portion of a plant by which it becomes attached to a supporting body, after which the tendril usually contracts by coiling spirally..
Voluminous :: Voluminous (a.) Consisting of many folds, coils, or convolutions..
Recoil :: Recoil (n.) A starting or falling back; a rebound; a shrinking; as, the recoil of nature, or of the blood..
Coil :: Coil (v. t.) To encircle and hold with, or as with, coils..
Coil :: Coil (v. i.) To wind itself cylindrically or spirally; to form a coil; to wind; -- often with about or around.
Shock :: Shock (v.) To strike with surprise, terror, horror, or disgust; to cause to recoil; as, his violence shocked his associates..
Accoil :: Accoil (v. t.) To gather together; to collect.
Volume :: Volume (n.) Anything of a rounded or swelling form resembling a roll; a turn; a convolution; a coil.
Intervolve :: Intervolve (v. t.) To involve one within another; to twist or coil together.
Deadbeat :: Deadbeat (a.) Making a beat without recoil; giving indications by a single beat or excursion; -- said of galvanometers and other instruments in which the needle or index moves to the extent of its deflection and stops with little or no further oscillation.
Shagbark :: Shagbark (n.) The West Indian Pithecolobium micradenium, a legiminous tree with a red coiled-up pod..
Coil :: Coil (n.) A ring, series of rings, or spiral, into which a rope, or other like thing, is wound..
Un- :: Un- () An inseparable verbal prefix or particle. It is prefixed: (a) To verbs to express the contrary, and not the simple negative, of the action of the verb to which it is prefixed; as in uncoil, undo, unfold. (b) To nouns to form verbs expressing privation of the thing, quality, or state expressed by the noun, or separation from it; as in unchild, unsex. Sometimes particles and participial adjectives formed with this prefix coincide in form with compounds of the negative prefix un- (see 2d Un-
Strombus :: Strombuliform (a.) Coiled into the shape of a screw or a helix.
Querl :: Querl (n.) A coil; a twirl; as, the qwerl of hair on the fore leg of a blooded horse..
Baculite :: Baculite (n.) A cephalopod of the extinct genus Baculites, found fossil in the Cretaceous rocks. It is like an uncoiled ammonite..
Recoiled :: Recoiled (imp. & p. p.) of Recoi.
Recoilment :: Recoilment (n.) Recoil.
Coil :: Coil (n.) A noise, tumult, bustle, or confusion..
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