coil

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See also: COIL and Coil

English

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Pronunciation

  • (UK, US) IPA(key): /kɔɪl/
  • (Appalachians, obsolete) IPA(key): /kwaɪl/
  • (file)
  • Rhymes: -ɔɪl

Etymology 1

From Middle English coilen, from Old French coillir, cuillir (to gather, pluck, pick, cull) (modern French cueillir), from Latin colligō (to gather together), past participle collectus, from com- (together) + legō (to gather); compare legend. Doublet of cull.

Helical or coil springs

Noun

coil (plural coils)

  1. Something wound in the form of a helix or spiral.
    the sinuous coils of a snake
  2. Any intrauterine device (abbreviation: IUD)—the first IUDs were coil-shaped.
    • 2020, Paul Mendez, Rainbow Milk, Dialogue Books (2021), page 293:
      ‘I’m gonna go on the pill and get fitted for a coil. I don’t wanna be pregnant. Ever. Again!’
  3. (electronics) A coil of electrically conductive wire through which electricity can flow.
    Synonym: inductor
  4. A cylinder of clay.
  5. (figurative) Entanglement; perplexity.
    • a. 1722, Matthew Prior, “Human Life”, in H. Bunker Wright, Monroe K. Spears, editors, The Literary Works of Matthew Prior, Second edition, volume I, Oxford: Clarendon Press, published 1971, page 687:
      What trifling coil do we mortals keep;
      Wake, eat, and drink, evacuate, and sleep.
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Descendants
  • Japanese: コイル (koiru)
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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.
    A simple transformer can be made by coiling two pieces of insulated copper wire around an iron heart.
  2. To wind into loops (roughly) around a common center.
    The sailor coiled the free end of the hawser on the pier.
  3. To wind cylindrically or spirally.
    to coil a rope when not in use
    The snake coiled itself before springing.
  4. To build a pot (etc) with clay coils.
  5. (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
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Etymology 2

Unknown.

Noun

coil (plural coils)

  1. (now obsolete except in phrases) A noise, tumult, bustle, or turmoil.
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References

  1. ^ Hall, Joseph Sargent (March 2, 1942), “1. The Vowel Sounds of Stressed Syllables”, in The Phonetics of Great Smoky Mountain Speech (American Speech: Reprints and Monographs; 4), New York: King's Crown Press, →DOI, →ISBN, § 15, page 46.

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Irish

Pronunciation

Noun

coil m

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

Noun

coil m

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

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
coil choil gcoil
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.