different between coil vs labyrinth
coil
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)
- Something wound in the form of a helix or spiral.
- The wild grapevines that twisted their coils or tendrils from tree to tree.
- Any intrauterine device (Abbreviation: IUD)—the first IUDs were coil-shaped.
- (electrical) A coil of electrically conductive wire through which electricity can flow.
- Synonym: inductor
- (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)
- To wind or reel e.g. a wire or rope into regular rings, often around a centerpiece.
- To wind into loops (roughly) around a common center.
- To wind cylindrically or spirally.
- (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
- a. 1757, Thomas Edwards, sonnet to Mr. Nathanael Mason
Translations
Etymology 2
Origin unknown.
Noun
coil (plural coils)
- (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.
- a. 1738, Thomas Urquhart, Peter Anthony Motteux, and John Ozell (translators), François Rabelais, Gargantua and Pantagruel
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
- vocative/genitive singular of col (“prohibition; sin, lust; violation; dislike; incest; relation, relationship”)
Noun 2
coil m
- inflection of col (“col”):
- vocative/genitive singular
- nominative/dative plural
Mutation
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labyrinth
English
Etymology
Borrowed from French labyrinthe or Latin labyrinthus, from Ancient Greek ?????????? (labúrinthos, “a maze”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?læb.?.??n?/, /?læb.??n?/
Noun
labyrinth (plural labyrinths)
- (Greek mythology) a maze-like structure built by Daedalus in Knossos, containing the Minotaur
- a complicated irregular network of passages or paths, especially underground or covered, in which it is difficult to find one's way
- Synonym: maze
- a maze (as in a garden) formed by paths separated by high hedges
- anything complicated and confusing in structure, arrangement, or character
- a complicated irregular network of passages or paths, especially underground or covered, in which it is difficult to find one's way
- (anatomy) a tortuous anatomical structure:
- (anatomy) a complex structure in the inner ear which contains the organs of hearing and balance. It consists of bony cavities (the bony labyrinth) filled with fluid and lined with sensitive membranes (the membranous labyrinth)
- (zoology) an accessory respiratory organ of certain fish
- any of various satyrine butterflies of the genus Neope
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
labyrinth (third-person singular simple present labyrinths, present participle labyrinthing, simple past and past participle labyrinthed)
- to enclose in a labyrinth, or as though in a labyrinth
- to arrange in the form of a labyrinth
- to twist and wind, following a labyrinthine path
- to render lost and confused, as if in a labyrinth
References
- John A. Simpson and Edward S. C. Weiner, editors (1989) , “labyrinth”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, ?ISBN
- “labyrinth”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.
- “labyrinth”, in Merriam–Webster Online Dictionary, (Please provide a date or year).
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