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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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lugworm
English
Noun
lugworm (plural lugworms)
- Any of several species of large marine annelid worm of the genus Arenicola
- especially the northern lugworm (Arenicola marina), whose coiled castings can often be seen on beaches at low tide.
- black lugworm (Arenicola defodiens
Synonyms
- (Arenicola marina): lobworm, sandworm, blow lugworm
Translations
References
- lugworm on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Arenicola marina on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
- Arenicola marina on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
- lugworm in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- lugworm at OneLook Dictionary Search
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