Crossword-Solution: COIL
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Coil | v. t. | To wind cylindrically or spirally; as, to coil a rope when not in use; the snake coiled itself before springing. |
| Coil | v. t. | To encircle and hold with, or as with, coils. |
| Coil | v. i. | To wind itself cylindrically or spirally; to form a coil; to wind; -- often with about or around. |
| Coil | n. | A ring, series of rings, or spiral, into which a rope, or other like thing, is wound. |
| Coil | n. | Fig.: Entanglement; toil; mesh; perplexity. |
| Coil | n. | A series of connected pipes in rows or layers, as in a steam heating apparatus. |
| Coil | n. | A noise, tumult, bustle, or confusion. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| COIL | anagram | CLIO, COLI, LOCI, OLIC |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
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eruption
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Sentences with COIL (5)
But it doesn’t matter to you how my days are passed now.” “I must go, in spite of sentiment.” Troy, as he spoke, looked at his watch, and, apparently actuated by _non lucendo_ principles, opened the case at the back, revealing, snugly stowed within it, a small coil of hair.
Then I got a big pebble from the river, and came and hammered till I had flattened a coil in the decorations, and the verdigris came off in powdery flakes.
Your typical electric utility draws its line current out of the big generators with a pair of coil taps located near the top of the dynamo.
The Scarecrow arrived with a coil of clothes-lines and ropes which he had taken from the courtyard, and in his trip up the stairs he had become so entangled in the loose ends of the ropes that both he and his burden tumbled in a heap upon the roof and might have rolled off if Tip had not rescued him.
Scientists were now convinced that since the flow of an electric current in a wire or a coil of wire caused it to acquire magnetic properties, the opposite might also prove to be true: a magnet could possibly be used to generate a flow of electricity.
Quotes with COIL (3)
To be, or not to be: that is the question: Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, And by opposing end them? To die: to sleep; No more; and by a sleep to say we end The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks That flesh is heir to, 'tis a consummation Devoutly to be wish'd. To die, to sleep; To sleep: perchance to dream: ay, there's the rub; For in that sleep of death what dreams may …
What matters creative endless toil, When, at a snatch, oblivion ends the coil?
Each coil has the earthquake which created it, as every death has the life that gave birth to it.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Onion, Rock & Roll, S&S, Slate, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 351 times in crossword archives (1951–2025).