Bobbin vs. Coil — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Bobbin and Coil
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Bobbin
A bobbin is a spindle or cylinder, with or without flanges, on which wire, yarn, thread or film is wound. Bobbins are typically found in sewing machines, cameras, and within electronic equipment.
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Coil
A series of connected spirals or concentric rings formed by gathering or winding
A coil of rope.
Long coils of hair.
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Bobbin
A spool or reel that holds thread or yarn for spinning, weaving, knitting, sewing, or making lace.
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Coil
An individual spiral or ring within such a series.
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Bobbin
Narrow braid formerly used as trimming.
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Coil
A spiral pipe or series of spiral pipes, as in a radiator.
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Bobbin
A spool or cylinder around which wire is coiled.
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Coil
A wound spiral of two or more turns of insulated wire, used to introduce inductance into a circuit.
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Bobbin
In a sewing machine, the small spool that holds the lower thread.
Wind the bobbin, place it in the machine, and raise the thread.
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Coil
Any of various devices of which such a spiral is the major component.
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Bobbin
The little rounded piece of wood at the end of a latch string, which is pulled to raise the latch.
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Coil
A roll of postage stamps prepared for use in a vending machine.
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Bobbin
(haberdashery) A fine cord or narrow braid.
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Coil
A disturbance; a fuss.
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Bobbin
A small pin, or cylinder, formerly of bone, now most commonly of wood, used in the making of pillow lace. Each thread is wound on a separate bobbin which hangs down holding the thread at a slight tension.
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Coil
To wind in concentric rings or spirals.
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Bobbin
A spool or reel of various material and construction, with a head at one or both ends, and sometimes with a hole bored through its length by which it may be placed on a spindle or pivot. It is used to hold yarn or thread, as in spinning or warping machines, looms, sewing machines, etc.
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Coil
To wind into a shape resembling a coil.
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Bobbin
The little rounded piece of wood, at the end of a latch string, which is pulled to raise the latch.
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Coil
To form concentric rings or spirals.
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Bobbin
A fine cord or narrow braid.
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Coil
To move in a spiral course
Black smoke coiling up into the sky.
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Bobbin
A cylindrical or spool-shaped coil or insulated wire, usually containing a core of soft iron which becomes magnetic when the wire is traversed by an electrical current.
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Coil
Something wound in the form of a helix or spiral.
The sinuous coils of a snake
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Bobbin
A winder around which thread or tape or film or other flexible materials can be wound
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Coil
Any intrauterine device (Abbreviation: IUD)—the first IUDs were coil-shaped.
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Coil
(electronics) A coil of electrically conductive wire through which electricity can flow.
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Coil
A cylinder of clay.
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Coil
(figurative) Entanglement; perplexity.
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Coil
A noise, tumult, bustle, or turmoil.
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Coil
To wind or reel e.g. a wire or rope into regular rings, often around a centerpiece.
A simple transformer can be made by coiling two pieces of insulated copper wire around an iron heart.
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Coil
To wind into loops (roughly) around a common center.
The sailor coiled the free end of the hawser on the pier.
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Coil
To wind cylindrically or spirally.
To coil a rope when not in use
The snake coiled itself before springing.
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Coil
To build a pot (etc) with clay coils.
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Coil
To encircle and hold with, or as if with, coils.
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Coil
To wind cylindrically or spirally; as, to coil a rope when not in use; the snake coiled itself before springing.
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Coil
To encircle and hold with, or as with, coils.
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Coil
To wind itself cylindrically or spirally; to form a coil; to wind; - often with about or around.
You can see his flery serpents . . . Coiting, playing in the water.
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Coil
A ring, series of rings, or spiral, into which a rope, or other like thing, is wound.
The wild grapevines that twisted their coils from trec to tree.
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Coil
Fig.: Entanglement; toil; mesh; perplexity.
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Coil
A series of connected pipes in rows or layers, as in a steam heating apparatus.
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Coil
A noise, tumult, bustle, or confusion.
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Coil
A structure consisting of something wound in a continuous series of loops;
A coil of rope
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Coil
A round shape formed by a series of concentric circles
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Coil
A transformer that supplies high voltage to spark plugs in a gasoline engine
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Coil
A contraceptive device placed inside a woman's womb
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Coil
Tubing that is wound in a spiral
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Coil
Reactor consisting of a spiral of insulated wire that introduces inductance into a circuit
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Coil
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
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Coil
Make without a potter's wheel;
This famous potter hand-builds all of her vessels
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Coil
Wind around something in coils or loops
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