Coil vs. Curl — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Coil and Curl
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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.
Curl
To twist (the hair, for example) into ringlets or coils.
Coil
An individual spiral or ring within such a series.
Curl
To form into a coiled or spiral shape
Curled the ends of the ribbon.
Coil
A spiral pipe or series of spiral pipes, as in a radiator.
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Curl
To decorate with coiled or spiral shapes.
Coil
A wound spiral of two or more turns of insulated wire, used to introduce inductance into a circuit.
Curl
To raise and turn under (the upper lip), as in snarling or showing scorn.
Coil
Any of various devices of which such a spiral is the major component.
Curl
(Sports) To lift (a weight) by performing a curl.
Coil
A roll of postage stamps prepared for use in a vending machine.
Curl
To form ringlets or coils.
Coil
A disturbance; a fuss.
Curl
To assume a spiral or curved shape.
Coil
To wind in concentric rings or spirals.
Curl
To move in a curve or spiral
The wave curled over the surfer.
Coil
To wind into a shape resembling a coil.
Curl
(Sports) To engage in curling.
Coil
To form concentric rings or spirals.
Curl
Something with a spiral or coiled shape.
Coil
To move in a spiral course
Black smoke coiling up into the sky.
Curl
A coil or ringlet of hair.
Coil
Something wound in the form of a helix or spiral.
The sinuous coils of a snake
Curl
A treatment in which the hair is curled.
Coil
Any intrauterine device (Abbreviation: IUD)—the first IUDs were coil-shaped.
Curl
The act of curling
The curl of a meandering river.
Coil
(electronics) A coil of electrically conductive wire through which electricity can flow.
Curl
The state of being curled.
Coil
A cylinder of clay.
Curl
(Sports) A weightlifting exercise using one or two hands, in which a weight held at the thigh or to the side of the body is raised to the chest or shoulder and then lowered without moving the upper arms, shoulders, or back.
Coil
(figurative) Entanglement; perplexity.
Curl
Any of various plant diseases in which the leaves roll up.
Coil
A noise, tumult, bustle, or turmoil.
Curl
A curving piece or lock of hair; a ringlet.
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.
Curl
A curved stroke or shape.
Coil
To wind into loops (roughly) around a common center.
The sailor coiled the free end of the hawser on the pier.
Curl
A spin making the trajectory of an object curve.
Coil
To wind cylindrically or spirally.
To coil a rope when not in use
The snake coiled itself before springing.
Curl
(curling) Movement of a moving rock away from a straight line.
Coil
To build a pot (etc) with clay coils.
Curl
(weightlifting) Any exercise performed by bending the arm, wrist, or leg on the exertion against resistance, especially those that train the biceps.
Coil
To encircle and hold with, or as if with, coils.
Curl
(calculus) The vector field denoting the rotationality of a given vector field.
The curl of the vector field is the vector field .
Coil
To wind cylindrically or spirally; as, to coil a rope when not in use; the snake coiled itself before springing.
Curl
The vector operator, denoted or , that generates this field.
Coil
To encircle and hold with, or as with, coils.
Curl
(agriculture) Any of various diseases of plants causing the leaves or shoots to curl up; often specifically the potato curl.
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.
Curl
The contrasting light and dark figure seen in wood used for stringed instrument making; the flame.
The one-piece back is of a medium curl.
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.
Curl
(American football) A pattern where the receiver appears to be running a fly pattern but after a set number of steps or yards quickly stops and turns around, looking for a pass.
Coil
Fig.: Entanglement; toil; mesh; perplexity.
Curl
(transitive) To cause to move in a curve.
Coil
A series of connected pipes in rows or layers, as in a steam heating apparatus.
Curl
(transitive) To make into a curl or spiral.
Coil
A noise, tumult, bustle, or confusion.
Curl
(intransitive) To assume the shape of a curl or spiral.
Coil
A structure consisting of something wound in a continuous series of loops;
A coil of rope
Curl
(intransitive) To move in curves.
Coil
A round shape formed by a series of concentric circles
Curl
To take part in the sport of curling.
I curl at my local club every weekend.
Coil
A transformer that supplies high voltage to spark plugs in a gasoline engine
Curl
To exercise by bending the arm, wrist, or leg on the exertion against resistance, especially of the biceps.
Coil
A contraceptive device placed inside a woman's womb
Curl
To twist or form (the hair, etc.) into ringlets.
Coil
Tubing that is wound in a spiral
Curl
To deck with, or as if with, curls; to ornament.
Coil
Reactor consisting of a spiral of insulated wire that introduces inductance into a circuit
Curl
To raise in waves or undulations; to ripple.
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
Curl
(hat-making) To shape (the brim of a hat) into a curve.
Coil
Make without a potter's wheel;
This famous potter hand-builds all of her vessels
Curl
To twist or form into ringlets; to crisp, as the hair.
But curl their locks with bodkins and with braid.
Coil
Wind around something in coils or loops
Curl
To twist or make onto coils, as a serpent's body.
Of his tortuous train,Curled many a wanton wreath in sight of Eve.
Curl
To deck with, or as with, curls; to ornament.
Thicker than the snaky locksThat curledMegæra.
Curling with metaphors a plain intention.
Curl
To raise in waves or undulations; to ripple.
Seas would be pools without the brushing airTo curl the waves.
Curl
To shape (the brim) into a curve.
Curl
To contract or bend into curls or ringlets, as hair; to grow in curls or spirals, as a vine; to be crinkled or contorted; to have a curly appearance; as, leaves lie curled on the ground.
Thou seest it [hair] will not curl by nature.
Curl
To move in curves, spirals, or undulations; to contract in curving outlines; to bend in a curved form; to make a curl or curls.
Then round her slender waist he curled.
Curling smokes from village tops are seen.
Gayly curl the waves before each dashing prow.
He smiled a king of sickly smile, and curled up on the floor.
Curl
To play at the game called curling.
Curl
A ringlet, especially of hair; anything of a spiral or winding form.
Under a coronet, his flowing hairIn curls on either cheek played.
Curl
An undulating or waving line or streak in any substance, as wood, glass, etc.; flexure; sinuosity.
If the glass of the prisms . . . be without those numberless waves or curls which usually arise from the sand holes.
Curl
A disease in potatoes, in which the leaves, at their first appearance, seem curled and shrunken.
Curl
A round shape formed by a series of concentric circles
Curl
American chemist who with Richard Smalley and Harold Kroto discovered fullerenes and opened a new branch of chemistry (born in 1933)
Curl
A strand or cluster of hair
Curl
Form a curl, curve, or kink;
The cigar smoke curled up at the ceiling
Curl
Shape one's body into a curl;
She curled farther down under the covers
She fell and drew in
Curl
Wind around something in coils or loops
Curl
Twist or roll into coils or ringlets;
Curl my hair, please
Curl
Play the Scottish game of curling
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