Meaning of Coil | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Abbreviation of chemical oxygen-iodine laser.
   abbreviation, alt-of
2. A noise, tumult, bustle, or turmoil.
3. A wad of cash.
   informal, slang
4. Something wound in the form of a helix or spiral.
5. A surname.
6. Any intrauterine device (abbreviation: IUD)—the first IUDs were coil-shaped.
7. A coil of electrically conductive wire through which electricity can flow.
8. A cylinder of clay.
9. Entanglement; perplexity.
   figuratively

Equivalents

Examples

“the sinuous coils of a snake”

“The wild grapevines that twisted their coils or tendrils from tree to tree.”

“‘I’m gonna go on the pill and get fitted for a coil. I don’t wanna be pregnant. Ever. Again!’”

“What trifling coil do we mortals keep; Wake, eat, and drink, evacuate, and sleep.”

“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 […]”

“If the windes rage, doth not the Sea wax mad, / Threatning the welkin with his big-swolne face? / And wilt thou haue a reason for this coile?”

“this great Savage desired also to see him. A great coyle there was to set him forward.”

“[T]hey continued ſo extremely fond of Gold, that if Peter ſent them abroad, though it were only upon a Complement; they would Roar, and Spit, and Belch, and Piſs, and Fart, and Snivle out Fire, and keep a perpetual Coyl, till you flung them a Bit of Gold; [...]”

“His liver demanded activity, namely, a quarrel, and what a coil this was!”

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