coil

1. 1.

   to wind or move in a spiral course

   “the muscles and nerves of his fine drawn body were coiling for action”

   “black smoke coiling up into the sky”

   “the young people gyrated on the dance floor”

   Synonymsgyratespiral

   Broaderturn
2. 2.

   make without a potter's wheel

   “This famous potter hand-builds all of her vessels”

   Synonymshandbuildhand-build

   Broadershape
3. 3.

   wind around something in coils or loops

   Synonymsloopcurl

   Antonymsuncoil

   Broaderwind

Other forms of coil

plural

coils·

past tense

coiled·

present participle

coiling·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about coil

What does coil mean?

coil means "a structure consisting of something wound in a continuous series of loops". That is the primary sense; the word has 9 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in coil?

coil has 1 syllable: coil. In IPA it is /ˈkɔɪl/.

What is another word for coil?

Close synonyms include spiral, volute, whorl, helix, whorl. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of coil?

The recorded antonyms are uncoil.

Is coil a common word?

coil is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with coil?

2 words rhyme with coil. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.