Coil vs. Curl
Coilnoun
Something wound in the form of a helix or spiral.
Coilnoun
Any intrauterine device (Abbreviation: IUD)—the first IUDs were coil-shaped.
Coilnoun
(electrical) A coil of electrically conductive wire through which electricity can flow.
Coilnoun
(figurative) Entanglement; perplexity.
Coilnoun
A noise, tumult, bustle, or turmoil.
Coilverb
To wind or reel e.g. a wire or rope into regular rings, often around a centerpiece.
Coilverb
To wind into loops (roughly) around a common center.
Coilverb
To wind cylindrically or spirally.
Coilverb
To encircle and hold with, or as if with, coils.
Coilverb
To wind cylindrically or spirally; as, to coil a rope when not in use; the snake coiled itself before springing.
Coilverb
To encircle and hold with, or as with, coils.
Coilverb
To wind itself cylindrically or spirally; to form a coil; to wind; - often with about or around.
Coilnoun
A ring, series of rings, or spiral, into which a rope, or other like thing, is wound.
Coilnoun
Fig.: Entanglement; toil; mesh; perplexity.
Coilnoun
A series of connected pipes in rows or layers, as in a steam heating apparatus.
Coilnoun
A noise, tumult, bustle, or confusion.
Coilnoun
a structure consisting of something wound in a continuous series of loops;
Coilnoun
a round shape formed by a series of concentric circles
Coilnoun
a transformer that supplies high voltage to spark plugs in a gasoline engine
Coilnoun
a contraceptive device placed inside a woman's womb
Coilnoun
tubing that is wound in a spiral
Coilnoun
reactor consisting of a spiral of insulated wire that introduces inductance into a circuit
Coilverb
to wind or move in a spiral course;
Coilverb
make without a potter's wheel;
Coilverb
wind around something in coils or loops
Curlnoun
A piece or lock of curling hair; a ringlet.
Curlnoun
A curved stroke or shape.
Curlnoun
A spin making the trajectory of an object curve.
Curlnoun
(curling) Movement of a moving rock away from a straight line.
Curlnoun
(weightlifting) Any exercise performed by bending the arm, wrist, or leg on the exertion against resistance, especially those that train the biceps.
Curlnoun
(calculus) The vector field denoting the rotationality of a given vector field.
Curlnoun
The vector operator, denoted \rm{curl}\; or \vec{\nabla}\times\vec{\left(\cdot\right)}, that generates this field.
Curlnoun
(agriculture) Any of various diseases of plants causing the leaves or shoots to curl up; often specifically the potato curl.
Curlnoun
The contrasting light and dark figure seen in wood used for stringed instrument making; the flame.
Curlnoun
(American football) A pattern where the receiver appears to be running a fly pattern but after a set number of steps or yards quickly stops and turns around, looking for a pass.
Curlverb
(transitive) To cause to move in a curve.
Curlverb
(transitive) To make into a curl or spiral.
Curlverb
(intransitive) To assume the shape of a curl or spiral.
Curlverb
(intransitive) To move in curves.
Curlverb
To take part in the sport of curling.
Curlverb
To exercise by bending the arm, wrist, or leg on the exertion against resistance, especially of the biceps.
Curlverb
To twist or form (the hair, etc.) into ringlets.
Curlverb
To deck with, or as if with, curls; to ornament.
Curlverb
To raise in waves or undulations; to ripple.
Curlverb
(hat-making) To shape (the brim of a hat) into a curve.
Curlverb
To twist or form into ringlets; to crisp, as the hair.
Curlverb
To twist or make onto coils, as a serpent's body.
Curlverb
To deck with, or as with, curls; to ornament.
Curlverb
To raise in waves or undulations; to ripple.
Curlverb
To shape (the brim) into a curve.
Curlverb
To contract or bend into curls or ringlets, as hair; to grow in curls or spirals, as a vine; to be crinkled or contorted; to have a curly appearance; as, leaves lie curled on the ground.
Curlverb
To move in curves, spirals, or undulations; to contract in curving outlines; to bend in a curved form; to make a curl or curls.
Curlverb
To play at the game called curling.
Curlnoun
A ringlet, especially of hair; anything of a spiral or winding form.
Curlnoun
An undulating or waving line or streak in any substance, as wood, glass, etc.; flexure; sinuosity.
Curlnoun
A disease in potatoes, in which the leaves, at their first appearance, seem curled and shrunken.
Curlnoun
a round shape formed by a series of concentric circles
Curlnoun
American chemist who with Richard Smalley and Harold Kroto discovered fullerenes and opened a new branch of chemistry (born in 1933)
Curlnoun
a strand or cluster of hair
Curlverb
form a curl, curve, or kink;
Curlverb
shape one's body into a curl;
Curlverb
wind around something in coils or loops
Curlverb
twist or roll into coils or ringlets;
Curlverb
play the Scottish game of curling
