Word Finder - coiled

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To wind or reel e.g. a wire or rope into regular rings, often around a centerpiece.

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A simple transformer can be made by coiling two pieces of insulated copper wire around an iron heart.

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To wind into loops (roughly) around a common center.

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The sailor coiled the free end of the hawser on the pier.

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To wind cylindrically or spirally.

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The snake coiled itself before springing.

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To encircle and hold with, or as if with, coils.

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In the form of coils; having coils.

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a coiled serpent

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Prepared and poised to act, like a snake that has coiled its lower body so it can strike.

The drum, when round ropes are used, is a plain broad cylinder, with flanged rims, and cased with soft wood packing, upon which the rope is coiled; the breadth is made sufficient to take the whole length of the rope at two laps.

Shell not coiled, symmetrical; pallial cavity ventral.

The tightly coiled spring was released, the clock began to whirr and the chimes to play.

He tried to block that day from his mind as he played out the coiled rope from over his shoulder and moved backwards down the slope.

Should these tests prove satisfactory the core is served with jute yarn, coiled in water-tight tanks, and surrounded with salt water.

Sternaspis, the gut is coiled.

She tossed the fish back to the ocean and coiled the rope, hiding it beneath several small rocks in the back of the cave.

Ampullaria, shell dextral, coiled.

Roman glass beads are always drawn out, and nicked off hot, with striation Iengthways; except the large opaque variegated beads which are coiled.

He entered and found a big snake coiled on the bedding.

The nephridia in this group are invariably coiled tubes with an intracellular lumen and nearly invariably open into the coelom by a funnel.

He is commonly represented standing, dressed in a long cloak, with bare breast; his usual attribute is a club-like staff with a serpent (the symbol of renovation) coiled round it.

The microspores on germination produce a small, greatly reduced male prothallus bearing one or two antheridia which give rise to a number of spirally coiled, multiciliate spermatozoids.

The plants grow as a rule in marshy places, though some species of Marsilia are xerophytic. The creeping stem produces roots from the ventral surface and leaves from the dorsal surface; the leaves when young are circinately coiled.

The head-dress is a small red cap, tambourineshaped, and strings of coins are coiled in the hair, or worn as necklaces and bracelets.

This work is partly carried out beneath the surface and partly on the surface, upon which the worms wander at night and eject the swallowed and triturated earth; frequently castings of some height are formed of coiled ropes of agglutinated particles of mould.

Prorocentraceae (Schutt) (=the Adinida of Bergh); body surrounded by a firm shell of two valves without a girdle band; transverse groove absent; transverse flagellum coiled round base of longitudinal.

But the larvae of the Ecaudata are mainly herbivorous and the digestive tract is accordingly extremely elongate and coiled up like the spring of a watch.

It is a fossil ammonite - an extinct mollusk that floated through the seas in its coiled shell.

January and I made a large bender by a bend in the sleepy, serpentine river that coiled through the site.

At the base of the spine is the root chakra, the coiled serpent of sexual energy.

Each chromosome is really a very long molecule of DNA wound up and coiled around special proteins to form chromatin.

Also make sure that the electric flex is not twisted, coiled, laid across the blanket or tucked under the mattress or covers.

When the young fronds first appear they are quite tightly coiled.

The aluminum ingots are sent to mills where they are rolled into very thin coiled sheets.

Ornaments include a temple to Surya the sun god, and a snake coiled around a column in the snake coiled around a column in the Snake Pond.

The rotor's movement winds the mainspring, a flat coiled spring, a flat coiled spring that powers mechanical watches.

How about changing the design to having the stylus connected to the tablet via a coiled wire?

My aim is to find the limits in protein topology in coiled coils.

Despite this, the first coiled tubing well was drilled from the Gannet platform in early 2004.

These small molecules pass through the renal tube (coiled tubule) which is surrounded by a capillary network.

Increasing ionic strength and reducing pH both decrease the viscosity as they cause the polymer to become more coiled.

Two pins q, r, with spiral springs coiled round them, pass loosely through holes in the forks k, 1, and keep the bearings of the heads in and n firmly pressed against the ends of the micrometer box.

Visceral mass and shell sinistrally coiled; shell thin, with narrow aperture; no inferior pallial lobe.

When flying, flamingos present a striking and beautiful sight, with legs and neck stretched out straight, looking like white and rosy or scarlet crosses with black arms. Not less fascinating is a flock of these sociable birds when at rest, standing on one or both legs, with their long necks twisted or coiled upon the body in any conceivable position.

In a few cases its course is slightly sinuous or twisted, but the only cases in which it is actually coiled upon itself are found in the Cladocera of the family Lynceidae (Alonidae) and in a single recentlydiscovered genus of Cumacea (Sympoda).

Ornaments include a temple to Surya the sun god, and a snake coiled around a column in the Snake Pond.

The rotor 's movement winds the mainspring, a flat coiled spring that powers mechanical watches.

Squinting down the dark tunnel I could see a snake, or maybe two, coiled inside.

As I moved into the water my instructor coiled and uncoiled the line as it came in and out.

Basically a generator consists of a set of magnets and a conductor like a coiled wire.

Flex tracks, also referred to as monorails, are curved, coiled, or angled to accommodate a variety of lighting situations.

In malrotation, the duodenum is usually coiled to the right, causing obstruction of the duodenum and failure of the stomach contents to pass through to the next portion of small intestine.

Spirochete-A type of bacterium with a long, slender, coiled shape.

Once the twists are unraveled, the hair will have a very wavy and tightly coiled texture that looks great for several days.

He was coiled and ready to snap if the Watcher so much as looked at her too long.

She ignored the voice of the creature coiled restlessly within her.

Charles was coiled, as if ready to take a bite out of her.

The boiler consists of similar pipe coiled up to form a fire-box, inside which the furnace is lighted.

The coiled pipe firebox of the high-pressure hot-water system previously described may be also classed with boilers.