coil

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /kɔɪl/    美 /kɔɪl/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Something wound in the form of a helix or spiral.
    — the sinuous coils of a snake
  2. 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 […]
  3. A wad of cash. informal,slang
  4. Any intrauterine device for contraception (originally coil-shaped). colloquial
    — ‘I’m gonna go on the pill and get fitted for a coil. I don’t wanna be pregnant. Ever. Again!’
  5. A coil of electrically conductive wire through which electricity can flow.
  6. A cylinder of clay.
  7. Entanglement; perplexity. figuratively
    — What trifling coil do we mortals keep; Wake, eat, and drink, evacuate, and sleep.
动词 v.
  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
  4. To build a pot (etc) with clay coils.
  5. To encircle and hold with, or as if with, coils. obsolete,rare
    — a. 1757, Thomas Edwards, sonnet to Mr. Nathanael Mason Pleasure coil thee in her dangerous snare

词形变化

coils plural coils present,singular,third-person coiling participle,present coiled participle,past coiled past coils plural

词汇关系

衍生词
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词源

词源 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.
词源 2
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