different between coil vs crimp

English

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /k??l/
• Rhymes: -??l

Etymology 1

From Middle French coillir (“to gather, pluck, pick, cull”) (French: cueillir), from Latin colligo (“to gather together”), past participle collectus, from com- (“together”) + lego (“to gather”); compare legend. Doublet of cull.

Noun

coil (plural coils)

1. Something wound in the form of a helix or spiral.

   • The wild grapevines that twisted their coils or tendrils from tree to tree.

2. Any intrauterine device (Abbreviation: IUD)—the first IUDs were coil-shaped.
3. (electrical) A coil of electrically conductive wire through which electricity can flow.

   Synonym: inductor

4. (figuratively) Entanglement; perplexity.

Derived terms

Descendants

• ? Japanese: ??? (koiru)

Translations

Verb

coil (third-person singular simple present coils, present participle coiling, simple past and past participle coiled)

1. To wind or reel e.g. a wire or rope into regular rings, often around a centerpiece.

2. To wind into loops (roughly) around a common center.

3. To wind cylindrically or spirally.

4. (obsolete, rare) To encircle and hold with, or as if with, coils.
   • a. 1757, Thomas Edwards, sonnet to Mr. Nathanael Mason

     Pleasure coil thee in her dangerous snare

Translations

Etymology 2

Origin unknown.

Noun

coil (plural coils)

1. (now obsolete except in phrases) A noise, tumult, bustle, or turmoil.
   • a. 1738, Thomas Urquhart, Peter Anthony Motteux, and John Ozell (translators), François Rabelais, Gargantua and Pantagruel

     And when he saw that all the dogs were flocking about her, yarring at the retardment of their access to her, and every way keeping such a coil with her as they are wont to do about a proud or salt bitch, he forthwith departed […]

   • 1594, William Shakespeare, Titus Andronicus, Act III:

     If the windes rage, doth not the Sea wax mad, / Threatning the welkin with his big-swolne face? / And wilt thou haue a reason for this coile?

   • 1624, John Smith, Generall Historie, in Kupperman 1988, p. 162:

     this great Savage desired also to see him. A great coyle there was to set him forward.

Derived terms

• mortal coil

Translations

Further reading

• coil in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• coil in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• Clio, coli, loci

Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [k?l?]

Noun 1

coil m

1. vocative/genitive singular of col (“prohibition; sin, lust; violation; dislike; incest; relation, relationship”)

Noun 2

coil m

1. inflection of col (“col”):
   1. vocative/genitive singular
   2. nominative/dative plural

Mutation

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k??mp/
• Rhymes: -?mp

Etymology 1

From Middle English crimpen (“to be contracted, be drawn together”), from Middle Dutch crimpen, crempen (“to crimp”), from Proto-Germanic *krimpan? (“to shrink, draw back”) (compare related Old English ?ecrympan (“to curl”)). Cognate with Dutch krimpen, German Low German krimpen, Faroese kreppa (“crisis”), and Icelandic kreppa (“to bend tightly, clench”). Compare also derivative Middle English crymplen (“to wrinkle”) and causative crempen (“to turn something back, restrain”, literally “to cause to shrink or draw back”), both ultimately derived from the same root. See also cramp.

Adjective

crimp

1. (obsolete) Easily crumbled; friable; brittle.
2. (obsolete) Weak; inconsistent; contradictory.

Noun

crimp (plural crimps)

1. A fastener or a fastening method that secures parts by bending metal around a joint and squeezing it together, often with a tool that adds indentations to capture the parts.

   The strap was held together by a simple metal crimp.

2. The natural curliness of wool fibres.
3. (usually in the plural) Hair that is shaped so it bends back and forth in many short kinks.
4. (obsolete) A card game.

Translations

Verb

crimp (third-person singular simple present crimps, present participle crimping, simple past and past participle crimped)

1. To press into small ridges or folds, to pleat, to corrugate.
   • 1983, The Pacific Reporter (page 636)

     Casino employees and Gaming Control Board agents placed the table under observation. The deck in play was exchanged for a new deck, and the used deck was found to contain many crimped cards.

2. (electricity) To fasten by bending metal so that it squeezes around the parts to be fastened.

   He crimped the wire in place.

3. To pinch and hold; to seize.
4. To style hair into a crimp, to form hair into tight curls, to make it kinky.
5. To bend or mold leather into shape.
6. To gash the flesh, e.g. of a raw fish, to make it crisper when cooked.

Derived terms

• crimper
• crimping tool

Translations

Etymology 2

Uncertain. Likely from etymology 1, above, but the historical development is not clear. Attested since the seventeenth century.

Noun

crimp (plural crimps)

1. An agent who procures seamen, soldier, etc., especially by decoying, entrapping, impressing, or seducing them.
2. (specifically, law) One who infringes sub-section 1 of the Merchant Shipping Act of 1854, applied to a person other than the owner, master, etc., who engages seamen without a license from the Board of Trade.
3. (obsolete) A keeper of a low lodging house where sailors and emigrants are entrapped and fleeced.

Verb

crimp (third-person singular simple present crimps, present participle crimping, simple past and past participle crimped)

1. (transitive) To impress (seamen or soldiers); to entrap, to decoy.

References

• crimp in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “crimp”, in Online Etymology Dictionary
• crimp at OneLook Dictionary Search