coiling
present participle ofcoil
coil
verb[IorT]
uk/kɔɪl/us/kɔɪl/toarrangesomething in a coil:
She coiled herhairintoaneatbunontopof herhead.
Thesnakecoiled itselftightlyaroundthedeer.
Bending, twisting and curving
- ball up
- bendy
- bent
- bowed
- buckle
- describe
- entwine
- flex
- flexion
- flexure
- fluted
- matted
- meander
- sinuous
- torsion
- tortuously
- tortuousness
- true
- twiddly
- wring
Examplesofcoiling
coiling
In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.
In one such study, 2143 patients with ruptured intracranial aneurysms were randomly assigned to neurosurgical clipping or endovascularcoiling.
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Other forms of activity include head lifting,coiling, nictation and penetration behaviours.
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The risk of late re-bleeding was low but more common aftercoiling.
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The standard adult sized lead was chosen to permitcoilingof redundant lead in the right atrium to avoid the need for lead advancement with growth of the child.
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Convolution (coilingor twisting) and turbulence (irregulation fluctuation, possibly stormy) involve confused spectromorphological entwining, but nevertheless tend to concur in their chaos.
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Manufacture combines the molding andcoilingtechniques.
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The interior of the mouth was examined before food was administered to ascertain whether there was anycoilingof the tube.
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The second rower's shield depicts a flaming altar with four sphinxes, acoilingserpent and an open eye that looks downwards.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Purefoy is also acclaimed, with a sense of huge faultinesscoilingwithin him which makes for a genuinely intriguing hero.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Thecoilingprovides distributed inductance, while a conductive layer close to the wires provides distributed capacitance.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The hairy inflorescence is a one-sided curving orcoilingcyme of many flowers.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The hairy inflorescence is a one-sided curving orcoilingcyme of bell-shaped flowers.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Either clockwise (dextral) or counter-clockwise (sinistral) directions can be observed in thecoilingof the shell, although the right-handed (dextral) cone is the more common.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The inflorescence is a one-sided curving orcoilingcyme of many bell-shaped flowers each just a few millimeters long.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The inflorescence is a curving orcoilingcyme of bell-shaped flowers each no more than half a centimeter long.
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