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# coil

«coil» in Mova's school dictionary: **A series of rings or loops made by winding something long…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 3 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a coil, coils); verb (coil, coils, coiled, coiling)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A series of rings or loops made by winding something long (a coil of rope). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/coil/#m1)

2) One ring of such a series. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/coil/#m2)

3) A wire wound in rings that carries electricity, as in a heater or electromagnet. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/coil/#m3)

4) To wind something into rings, or to lie in rings (The snake coiled up). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/coil/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

In science: a coil of wire makes an electromagnet stronger with more turns; springs are coils. In nature: a snake coils. In everyday life: coiling a hose or rope. Phrase: coiled spring (ready to jump).

### examples

- The snake lay in a coil on the rock. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/coil/#x1)
- Wind the rope into a neat coil. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/coil/#x2)
- More coils of wire make the electromagnet stronger. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/coil/#x3)
- The kettle has a heating coil inside. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/coil/#x4)
- The cat's tail coiled around its paws. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/coil/#x5)
- A spring is a metal coil. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/coil/#x6)
- And the boy could reef a sail and coil a rope and keep the ship's nose steady before the wind. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/coil/#x7)

### note

Regular verb: coiled. In science problems, «number of coils» or «turns» is something you can count and compare. Similar: loop, curl, spiral.

### In the corpora

- [They have no venom; they hunt by grabbing prey and wrapping it in their coils, which is why they are called constrictors.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/321-big-snakes-pythons-boas-and-anacondas-and-how-big-they-really-get/1/)
- ["Shuffled off this mortal coil" means died; it comes from Shakespeare's Hamlet and is used jokingly.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/1-death-polite-and-joking/15/)
- [An electric motor spins because electricity in a coil of wire makes it a magnet that is pushed and pulled by other magnets.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/29-magnets-pulling-and-pushing-without-touching/15/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «coil» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/coil/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.