Definitions for coils

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coils coil

Spelling: [koil]

IPA: /kɔɪl/

Coils is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 61 anagrams from letters in coils (cilos).

Definitions for coils

noun

1. a connected series of spirals or rings into which a rope or the like is wound.
2. a single such ring.
3. an arrangement of pipes, coiled or in a series, as in a radiator.
4. a continuous pipe having inlet and outlet, or flow and return ends.
5. Medicine/Medical. an intrauterine device.
6. Electricity. a conductor, as a copper wire, wound up in a spiral or other form. a device composed essentially of such a conductor. ignition coil.
7. Philately. a stamp issued in a roll, usually of 500 stamps, and usually perforated vertically or horizontally only. a roll of such stamps.
8. a noisy disturbance; commotion; tumult.
9. trouble; bustle; ado.

verb (used with object)

1. to wind into continuous, regularly spaced rings one above the other:
2. to wind on a flat surface into rings one around the other:
3. to gather (rope, wire, etc.) into loops:

verb (used without object)

1. to form rings, spirals, etc.; gather or retract in a circular way:
2. to move in or follow a winding course:

Origin of coils

First recorded in 1605-15; perhaps variant of cull

Examples for coils

Here he sat down on a coil of rope, and thought over the situation.

There were only a Ruhmkorff coil and Crookes (vacuum) tube and the man himself.

It is a blessing that a rattlesnake has to coil before it can spring.

“Here,” he said, leading the way into the room where the coil stood.

No one was visible on deck, so Donald sat down on a coil of rope to wait.

Into the cockpit, splashing, something dropped—a coil of rope.

Dabbing wax on the coil or using hash oil on the wick also works.

In last summer's protests, that third began to coil the revolutionary energy of its frustrated expectations.

I'll explain what I have in mind while we dig up this coil of hose.

She was dressed in a cigarette skirt that surrounded her hips like a spring coil.