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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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undulation
English
Etymology
undulate +? -ion, or borrowed from Medieval Latin undul?ti?; compare French ondulation.
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -e???n
Noun
undulation (countable and uncountable, plural undulations)
- An instance or act of undulating.
- 1929, Robert Dean Frisbee, The Book of Puka-Puka (republished by Eland, 2019; p. 77):
- But the next undulation would raise us, showing the island ablaze in the sunlight, an emerald of dazzling beauty resting lightly on the bosom of the sea.
- 1929, Robert Dean Frisbee, The Book of Puka-Puka (republished by Eland, 2019; p. 77):
- A wavy appearance or outline; waviness.
- (music) A tremulous tone produced by a peculiar pressure of the finger on a string.
- A wavelike curve; a smooth and regular rise and fall.
- A wavelike motion of the air; electromagnetic radiation.
- (medicine, dated) A feeling as if of an undulatory motion about the heart.
- (medicine, dated) The distinctive motion of the matter within an abscess on being pressed when it is ripe for opening.
Derived terms
- undulationist
Translations
References
- undulation in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
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