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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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moil
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /m??l/
- Homophone: mohel
- Rhymes: -??l
Alternative forms
- moile, moyle
Etymology 1
From Middle English mollen (“to soften by wetting”), borrowed from Old French moillier with the same meaning, from Vulgar Latin *molli?, *molliare, from mollis (“soft”).
Verb
moil (third-person singular simple present moils, present participle moiling, simple past and past participle moiled)
- To toil, to work hard.
- 1625, Francis Bacon, "Of Plantations":
- Moil not too much underground, for the hope of mines is very uncertain, and useth to make the planters lazy in other things..
- 1693, John Dryden, Juvenal and Persius, "Tenth Satire of Juvenal":
- Now he must moil and drudge for one he loathes.
- 1849, Charles Kingsley, "Alton Locke's Song":
- Why for sluggards cark and moil?
- 1625, Francis Bacon, "Of Plantations":
- (intransitive) To churn continually; to swirl.
- 1952, Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man, Chapter 23:
- A crowd of men and women moiled like nightmare figures in the smoke-green haze.
- 1952, Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man, Chapter 23:
- (Britain, transitive) To defile or dirty.
Noun
moil (countable and uncountable, plural moils)
- Hard work.
- 1928, Harry Lauder, Roamin' in the Gloamin', Chapter VII:
- I finally decided, my heart was really in my singing rather than in the drab, hardy soul- searing toil and moil of a collier's existence.
- 1928, Harry Lauder, Roamin' in the Gloamin', Chapter VII:
- Confusion, turmoil.
- 1948, Norman Mailer, The Naked and the Dead, Part I, Chapter 5:
- Croft no longer saw anything clearly; he could not have said at that moment where his hands ended and the machine gun began; he was lost in a vast moil of noise out of which individual screams and shouts etched in his mind for an instant.
- 1948, Norman Mailer, The Naked and the Dead, Part I, Chapter 5:
- A spot; a defilement.
Synonyms
- (hard work): labour, labor; toil; work
Translations
Etymology 2
Of unclear origin; possibly from French meule or Hebrew ????? (mohel, “ritual circumciser”), referring to the foreskin-like shape of the unwanted rim.
Noun
moil (plural moils)
- (glassblowing) The glass circling the tip of a blowpipe or punty, such as the residual glass after detaching a blown vessel, or the lower part of a gather.
- (glassblowing, blow molding) The excess material which adheres to the top, base, or rim of a glass object when it is cut or knocked off from a blowpipe or punty, or from the mold-filling process. Typically removed after annealing as part of the finishing process (e.g. scored and snapped off).
- (glassblowing) The metallic oxide from a blowpipe which has adhered to a glass object.
Synonyms
- (excess glass): overblow (blow molding), scrap
See also
- gather
- mold seam
- pontil mark
Anagrams
- Milo, OIML, limo, milo
Bouyei
Etymology
From Proto-Tai *?mw?j? (“bear”). Cognate with Thai ??? (m?i), Northern Thai ????, Lao ?? (m?), Lü ?? (?ii), Tai Dam ??, Shan ?? (m?i), Ahom ???????? (mii), Zhuang mui, Nong Zhuang mue. Compare Old Chinese ? (OC *me?).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /mo?i??/
Noun
moil
- bear (animal)
Synonyms
- duezmoil
Scottish Gaelic
Noun
moil m
- genitive of mol
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