coil

«coil» in Mova's school dictionary: A series of rings or loops made by winding something long… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 3 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a coil, coils); verb (coil, coils, coiled, coiling)

meaning for a pupil

1) A series of rings or loops made by winding something long (a coil of rope). tree →

2) One ring of such a series. tree →

3) A wire wound in rings that carries electricity, as in a heater or electromagnet. tree →

4) To wind something into rings, or to lie in rings (The snake coiled up). tree →

sense in the lessons

In science: a coil of wire makes an electromagnet stronger with more turns; springs are coils. In nature: a snake coils. In everyday life: coiling a hose or rope. Phrase: coiled spring (ready to jump).

examples

• The snake lay in a coil on the rock. tree →
• Wind the rope into a neat coil. tree →
• More coils of wire make the electromagnet stronger. tree →
• The kettle has a heating coil inside. tree →
• The cat's tail coiled around its paws. tree →
• A spring is a metal coil. tree →
• And the boy could reef a sail and coil a rope and keep the ship's nose steady before the wind. tree →

note

Regular verb: coiled. In science problems, «number of coils» or «turns» is something you can count and compare. Similar: loop, curl, spiral.

In the corpora

• They have no venom; they hunt by grabbing prey and wrapping it in their coils, which is why they are called constrictors.
• "Shuffled off this mortal coil" means died; it comes from Shakespeare's Hamlet and is used jokingly.
• An electric motor spins because electricity in a coil of wire makes it a magnet that is pushed and pulled by other magnets.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «coil» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.