Coil

Definition: Coil

Coil

Noun

1. A structure consisting of something wound in a continuous series of loops; "a coil of rope".

2. A round shape formed by a series of concentric circles.

3. A transformer that supplies high voltage to spark plugs in a gasoline engine.

4. A contraceptive device placed inside a woman's womb.

5. Tubing that is wound in a spiral.

6. Reactor consisting of a spiral of insulated wire that introduces inductance into a circuit.

Verb

1. To wind or move in a spiral course:" 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".

2. Make without a wheel; of pottery.

3. Wind around something in coils or loops.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "coil" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Chemical Industry

Electrical Engineering

Energy

Sports & Leisure

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

COIL

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Synonyms: Coil

Circuition

Turning; Verb: wrench; evolution; coil, corkscrew.

Complexity

Noun: complexity; complexness; Adjective: complexus; complication, implication; intricacy, intrication; perplexity; network, labyrinth; wilderness, jungle; involution, raveling, entanglement; coil; (convolution); sleave, tangled skein, knot, Gordian knot, wheels within wheels; kink, gnarl, knarl; webwork.

Convolution

Verb: be convoluted; Adjective:wind, twine, turn and twist, twirl; wave, undulate, meander; inosculate; entwine, intwine; twist, coil, roll; wrinkle, curl, crisp, twill; frizzle; crimp, crape, indent, scollop, scallop, wring, intort; contort; wreathe; (cross).

Coil, roll, curl; buckle, spiral, helix, corkscrew, worm, volute, rundle; tendril; scollop, scallop, escalop; kink; ammonite, snakestone.

Corpse

Noun: corpse, corse, carcass, cadaver, bones, skeleton, dry bones; defunct, relics, reliquiae, remains, mortal remains, dust, ashes, earth, clay; mummy; carrion; food for worms, food for fishes; tenement of clay this mortal coil.

Death

Pay the debt to nature, shuffle off this mortal coil, take one's last sleep; go the way of all flesh; hand in one's checks, pass in one's checks, hand in one's chips, pass in one's chips; join the greater number, join the majority; come to dust, turn to dust; cross the Stygian ferry, cross the bar; go to one's long account, go to one's last home, go to Davy Jones's locker, go to the wall; receive one's death warrant, make one's will, step out, die a natural death, go out like the snuff of a candle; come to an untimely end; catch one's death; go off the hooks, kick the bucket, buy the farm, hop the twig, turn up one's toes; die a violent death. (be killed).

Difficulty

Dilemma, embarrassment; deadlock; perplexity; (uncertainty); intricacy; entanglement, complexity; cross fire; awkwardness, delicacy, ticklish card to play, knot, Gordian knot, dignus vindice nodus, net, meshes, maze; coil; (convolution); crooked path; involvement.

Recession

Lodestone, loadstone, lodestar, loadstar; magnet, permanent magnet, siderite, magnetite; electromagnet; magnetic coil, voice coil; magnetic dipole; motor coil, rotor, stator.

Crosswords: Coil

Coil Winding Section E (1904)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Immortal Coil (Star Trek, the Next Generation) (reference)

• Son of Tesla Coil (reference)

• Star Trek: The Next Generation #64: Immortal Coil [DOWNLOAD: MICROSOFT READER] (reference)

• Tesla Coil (reference)

• The Barbed Coil (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Voice Coil (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies

• Ceramics Handbuilding:Pinch & Coil (reference)

• Triple Coil Golf Swing (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

High Tech

• Kodak Gear 6 ft.Flash Coil Cord (reference)

• Pioneer TSW2541C 10" Single Voice Coil Subwoofer (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Consumer Goods

• Hitachi NV45AB Coil Roofing Nailer (reference)

  (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Transformer manufacture. Men with nimble fingers make good coil winders. These two employees of a large Eastern electrical company are producing transformers essential to war industries. Westinghouse, Sharon, Pennsylvania. Credit: Library of Congress.

Science and research. Mineral prospecting. Electrical prospecting for metallic minerals may be carried on by using the dual coil radiometer to measure the electro-magnetic field of the earth, as it may be influenced by the presence of an ore body. Student. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Health

If your hearing aid is in the "T" position, this coil is activated when you pick up the phone. (references)

The TMS device is a small coil which is held outside of the head, over the part of the brain needing stimulation. (references)

A small platinum coil is inserted through an artery in the thigh and threaded through the arteries to the site of the aneurysm. (references)

Economic History

Hong Kong

Products include chillers, air handling units, fan coil units, cooling towers, heat exchangers, water pumps, VAV boxes, air louvers, air dampers, fire dampers, timers, evaporator coils and condenser coils. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "coil": aerial coil ♦ air core coil ♦ antenna coil ♦ armature coil ♦ balancing coil ♦ baseball seam coil ♦ body coil ♦ chike coil ♦ choke coil ♦ Choking coil ♦ coil antenna ♦ coil distributor ♦ coil impedance ♦ coil itself up ♦ coil of hair ♦ coil oneself up ♦ coil pipe ♦ coil spring ♦ coil up ♦ condensing coil ♦ deflector coil ♦ electrical coil ♦ field coil ♦ Flemish coil ♦ ignition coil ♦ immersion coil ♦ Inductance coil ♦ induction coil ♦ mortal coil ♦ motor coil ♦ pedestal coil ♦ poloidal field coil ♦ primary coil ♦ quadrupolar lace coil ♦ reactance coil ♦ repeat coil ♦ repeater coil ♦ repeating coil ♦ resistance coil ♦ retard coil ♦ rotor coil ♦ Ruhmkorff's coil ♦ secondary coil ♦ spark coil ♦ stator coil ♦ steam coil ♦ syntonizing coil ♦ tenement of clay this mortal coil ♦ tennis ball seam coil ♦ Tesla coil ♦ tickler coil ♦ to coil ♦ tuning coil ♦ voice coil ♦ wind in a coil. Additional references.

Beginning with "coil": coil-core, coil-diode, coil-helix, coil-springs, coil-tap, coil-tappable, coil-tapped, coil-tapping, coil-type.

Ending with "coil": coiled-coil, moving-coil, single-coil.

Containing "coil": moving-coil galvanometer.

Afrikaans

spoel (bobbin, gargle, rinse, spool). (various references)

Albanian

unazë (Bushing, ring, seal ring), tub spiral, spirale (convolution, helix, spiral, spire, volute, whorl), serpentinë (serpentine), rrotull (about, around, bobbin, drum, pulley, reel, roll, sheave), përdridhem (curl, wriggle, writhe), mbështjell (clothe, encase, enfold, enlace, enshroud, envelop, enwrap, fold, inlace, involve, lap, mantle, muffle, nuzzle, overcast, reel, reel up, roll, scarf, sheet, throw on, throw out, tuck up, twine, underpin, wind, wind on, wrap, wreathe), gjarpëroj (curl, meander, take a winding course, twine, weave, wind, wind up), dredhë (circumvolution, contortion, convolution, Crimp, helix, hook, kink, meanders, sinuosity, spiral, tendril, volute, whorl, winding), bobinë (bobbin, cartridge, cassette, reel, roll, spool, winding), bëj kutullaç. (various references)

Arabic 

‏ملف (bobbin, dossier, file, fold, folder, portfolio, reel, spool, wrap), ‏لفة (curl, furl, roll, twist), ‏لف (cover, curl, encompass, enfold, envelop, enwrap, fold up, furl, infold, lap, reel, roll up, rolling, spool, surround, swaddle, swathe, twine, twist, whirl, wind, winding, wrap, wrap up), ‏سلك موصل ملفوف, ‏سلسلة أنابيب, ‏إلتف الثعبان, ‏إضطراب (disorder, distraction, disturbance, dust, flurry, flutter, ill, nervousness, perturbation, ramp, rout, ruction, ruffle, topsy turvy, topsy-turvydom, trouble, tumult, turbulence, turmoil, uneasiness, unrest, uproar). (various references)

Bulgarian 

суетене (ado, fiddle-faddle, fidget, fuss, stir), спирала (convolute, curl, helix, spiral, spire, volution), шум (ado, ballyhoo, bobbery, boom, buzz, clam, discord, murmur, noise, noisiness, pandemonium, pother, rattle, reclame, row, sound, stir, to-do, tumult, turmoil, uproar), вия се (creep, curl, entwine, ramp, run, serpentine, twist, weave, wheel, wind, wound, wreathe, writhe), навивам (curl, expend, fake, furl, lap, quill, roll, roll up, scroll, set, take up, tuck, tuck up, wind, wind up), намотка (circumvolution, solenoid, tier, turn, wind, winding), бобина (bobbin, reel, spool). (various references)

Chinese 

纏 (annoy, involve, tangle, to bother, wind around, wrap round), 捲 (to roll), 卷 (Coiling, Reeled, Reeling, roll, VOL). (various references)

Czech

cívka (bobbin, cop, reel, spool), vinout se (convolve, meander, roll, wind), svitek (roll, scroll), svinout se (roll up), stoèit se (coil up, roll), spirála (curl, helix, spiral, spire, wreath), prstenec (curl), kotouè (disc, disk, reel, roll, spool, swirl, wheel, whirl, wreath), kolo (bicycle, bike, bout, cycle, hoop, round, wheel). (various references)

Danish

taendspole (reel), symetrisk triangel (symmetrical triangle), symetrisk trekant (symmetrical triangle), staaltraadsring, spole (bobbin, drum, inductor, lifter, pirn, reel, solenoid, spool, to cone, to reel, to spool, to wind, twist cop, warm cop, winder), serpentin (ophite, serpentine marble), rulle (roll), roerslange (worm), koelespiral, elektrisk spole (electrical coil, electrical winding, winding), drosselspole (chike coil, choke, choke coil, impedance coil, reactance coil, reactor, self-induction coil, small choke). (various references)

Dutch

spoel (bobbin, spindle, spool), klos (bobbin, spool), bobine (bobbin, spool). (various references)

Esperanto

bobeno (bobbin, spool). (various references)

Faeroese

spoli (bobbin, spool). (various references)

Farsi 

فنر (Spring), مارپیچ (Spiral, Spire), چنبره زدن , بدورچیزی بطورمارپیچ پیچیدن . (various references)

Finnish

kierukka (diaphragm, spiral), kela (capstan, reel, winch), käämi (electrical coil, electrical winding, winding). (various references)

French

bobine (coiling drum, electrical coil), rouleau (coiling). (various references)

German

spule (bobbin, quill, reel, solenoid, spool), wendel (helix, spiral), Wicklung (electrical winding, inductance, winding, wound yarn), schlange (jezebel, line, procession, queue, serpent, snake, string, train, viper), rolle (bobbin, caster, Castor, Crake, part, pulley, rôle, reel, role, roll, roller, runner, scroll, skid), aufspulen (reel, spool, wind in). (various references)

Greek 

κουλούρα (cake, loop), πηνίο (bobbin, spool). (various references)

Hebrew 

מזרב�" (reel, spool), ללפף (clasp, embrace, enwrap, involve, wind), לכרוך (entwine, swaddle, swathe, wrap), ל�"תפתל (be twisted, meander, twist, wriggle), פתול (bend, corded, curve, kink, meander, torsion, twist, wrick), פקעת (bulb, hank, tangle, tuber), סליל (bobbin, hank, reel, spool). (various references)

Hungarian

tekercs (convolution, furl, piece, reel, roll, spool), orsó (arbor, arbour, bobbin, hanger, quill, reel, roll, rotor, spindle, spool), tekercselés (armature, circumvolution, reel, windings), spirálcső. (various references)

Indonesian

gulungan (hank), gulung, gelungan, gelung (truss), belitan (association, kink, twist), belit. (various references)

Italian

rotolo (bolt, reel, roll, wad), bobina (bobbin, cop, reel, solenoid, spool), addugliare. (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

束 (bunch, bundle, handbreadth, sheaf). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

たば (bunch, bundle, sheaf), うずまき (eddy, whirlpool), コイル , じゃか�" (hose). (various references)

Korean 

�"일. (various references)

Manx

lhoobey (arching, bend, bow, coiling, curl up, curve, double over, flex, hunch, incurvate, inflect, inflexion, loop, looping, sag, squirm, stoop, stooping, twine, winding, wriggle, writhe), lhoob (bend, convolution, curve, flexion, gulf, hank, hoop, link, rabbit snare, shackle, snare, staple clasp, stitch, twine, twine of snake, twirl), feddan lhoobagh (coiled tube), caslagh (armature, spiral), beishteig (crawler, creepy-crawly, worm). (various references)

Norwegian

spiral, kveil. (various references)

Papago

hoa (coil basket). (various references)

Pig Latin

oilcay

Portuguese

bobina (bobbin, cop, reel, roll, spool), serpentina (girandole, serpentine, worm pipe). (various references)

Romanian

zbucium (agitation, anxiety, fidget, struggle, struggling, trouble, uneasiness, worriment), se încovriga, se încolãci (curl up, entwine, twine, twirl, twist, wind, wreathe), rotocol (wreath), bucluc (adversity, affliction, bother, calamity, cross, disgrace, embarrassment, jam, quagmire, scrape, tribulation, trouble, upset), buclã (curl, forelock, frizzle, knot, lock, loop, ringlet, ripple, tress), bobinã (bobbin, rap, reel, roll, spool), bobina (braid, spool, wind), înfãşura (braid, convolve, enfold, enshroud, enswathe, envelop, enwrap, fold, furl, lap, muffle, pack, parcel, roll, swathe, twine, wind, wrap), încovrigare, încolãcire. (various references)

Russian 

катушка (bobbin, reel, spool, swifts). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

spiralna cev (coil pipe), naviti (wind, wind up), namotati (reel, reel up, wind), namotaj (wind, winding), kotur (poppet, pulley, roll, sheave, wheel), kalem (bobbin, graft, helix, reel, roll, spool, truncheon). (various references)

Spanish

rollo (bolt, jazz, reel, roll, spiel, twist), bobina (bobbin, reel, role, roll, roller, spool). (various references)

Swedish

spole (bobbin, curler, quill, reel, roller, spool, winder), rulle (bobbin, bolt, curler, hank, reel, roll, zap). (various references)

Thai

ความวุ่นวายเอะอะ, ความลำบาก, ข�"เป็นวง, ข�"ลว�"ซึ่งกระแสไฟไหลผ่าน, ม้วน (furl, reel, roll). (various references)

Turkish

kangal yapmak (coil up, wind in a coil), bukle (corkscrew curls, curl, frizz, hank, lock, Lovelock, pouf, pouffe, puff, ringlet), bukle yapmak (coil up), dolamak (cincture, coil up, enlace, enwrap, lap, reel, reel up, rotate, twist, whip, whirl, wind, wrap), dolanmak (coil up, wind), gürültü (ado, bang, Charivari, clamor, clamour, clatter, crash, din, discord, dustup, fracas, hoi polloi, hubble bubble, hubbub, hullabaloo, kick up, loudness, noise, noisiness, pandemonium, peal, pong, pother, racket, rag, razzle-dazzle, roar, roaring, roughhouse, row, ruckus, ruction, rumble, rumpus, shindy, sound, to-do, tumult, turbulence, turmoil, uproar, welter), bobin (bobbin, quill, reel, roller, sheave, spiral, spool, winding), kangal (hank, skein), yumak (ball, clew, clue, pellet, skein), kargaşa (anarchism, anarchy, Babel, broil, chaos, commotion, confusion, disarray, disorder, disturbance, earthquake, grab bag, hurly burly, moil, muss, pell mell, pellmell, rag bag, riot, rough and tumble, roughhouse, ruckus, ruction, rumpus, shemozzle, snarl, sound and fury, squall, storm, tailspin, tempest, tumult, turbulence, uproar, welter), patırtı (ado, bang, Charivari, clamor, clamour, clatter, disorder, dustup, fracas, noise, plump, riot, roughhouse, row, rumpus, sound and fury, stir, to-do, tumult, welter), sarılmak (arm, be wrapped, canoodle, clasp, clasp smb. in one's arms, cling, clip, coil up, cuddle, give a hug, give smb. a hug, hold on, hug, snuggle, twine, wind), sarmak (bandage, begird, beset, bind, bundle, cincture, clothe, coat, cocoon, coil up, compass, do up, embrace, encircle, enclasp, encompass, enfold, enlace, entwine, entwist, envelop, enwrap, fold, fold up, furl, gird, hem about, hem around, hem in, infold, intwine, invest, involve, lap, overgrow, pack, reel, reel up, robe, roll, roll up, sheet, smother in, stalk, strap, surround, swaddle, swathe, tuck in, tuck up, twine, twist, whirl, wind, wind up, wrap, wrap up), tomar (bundle, roll, scroll, sheaf, wad, web), yay (arc, arch, bow, coil spring, release, spring, string), halka (annulus, bangle, circle, collet, hoop, link, quoits, ring, round, torus, whorl, wreath). (various references)

Turkmen 

tegek (spool). (various references)

Ukrainian

кільце (circle, circus, cirque, grummet, hoop, orb, ring, ringlet), котушка (barrel, bobbin, reel, swift), обруч (hoop), обвиватися (twine), намотувати (wind). (various references)

Vietnamese 

cuộn vòng. (various references)

Welsh

torchi (roll, tuck, wreathe), torch (wreath). (various references)

speira. (various references)

amplexus, arcu, arcum, arcus, arcusque, arcuum, colligere, spira. (various references)

coillir. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "coil": coilabilities, coilability, coiled, coiler, coilers, coiling, coils. (additional references)

Words ending with "coil": recoil, supercoil, uncoil, upcoil. (additional references)

Words containing "coil": recoiled, recoiler, recoilers, recoiling, recoilless, recoils, supercoiled, supercoiling, supercoils, uncoiled, uncoiling, uncoils, upcoiled, upcoiling, upcoils. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Coil" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: cael, cail, Cbiol, cei, Ceili, Cemil, cenil, ceyl, Choli, Choul, cial, cicil, cii, ciii, cil, cili, cilo, cio, ciod, ciol, cisl, cloil, coaln, cobil, coei, coel, cogi, cohi, coi, Coic, Coid, coii, coiii, Coila, coild, Coille, coily, coim, coiv, coix, coiy, cole, coli, colid, colim, colio, colip, cooi, cooool, corl, Cosl, coui, coul, covil, cowi, Coxiella, coxii, coxil, coyi, cpio, cril, Crill, croil, Csil, cuul, cxiii, ecoli, koil, Koli, loil, Ncoic, oci, ocio, Ocli, Scoil, Scoli, zoil. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: loci.

-1 letter: col, oil.

-2 letters: li, lo.

+1 letter: cibol, coils, colic, colin, dolci, logic, lotic, nicol, oculi, oleic, wilco.

+2 letters: alnico, calico, caroli, cibols, cineol, citola, citole, clonic, codlin, coiled, coiler, coital, colics, colies, colins, collie, colobi, coloni, coolie, cosily, coulis, cozily, docile, enolic, flocci, frolic, holmic, lictor, lochia, loculi, logics, lorica, nicols, ocelli, oilcan, oilcup, orchil, oxalic, police, policy, recoil, social, toluic, uncoil, upcoil.

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