verb Download 🔗Share To wind or reel e.g. a wire or rope into regular rings, often around a centerpiece. Examples : "A simple transformer can be made by coiling two pieces of insulated copper wire around an iron heart." structure action technical machine Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb Download 🔗Share To wind into loops (roughly) around a common center. Examples : "The sailor coiled the free end of the hawser on the pier." action nature Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb Download 🔗Share To wind cylindrically or spirally. Examples : "The snake coiled itself before springing." structure action nature Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb Download 🔗Share To encircle and hold with, or as if with, coils. Examples : "The garden hose coiled around the faucet, preventing it from falling. " action nature Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
adjective Download 🔗Share In the form of coils; having coils. Examples : "a coiled serpent" appearance structure nature Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
adjective Download 🔗Share Prepared and poised to act, like a snake that has coiled its lower body so it can strike. Examples : "The athlete, coiled and ready, waited for the starting gun to fire. " attitude action body animal Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading