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    A coil is a length of something, like rope or wire, wound around and around into a spiral or circle shape. As a verb, to coil something means to wind it that way. In electronics, a coil of wire is a part inside many machines. In British English, 'the coil' is also an informal name for a birth control device placed inside a woman's body.

    捲、盤繞;(電子)線圈;(英式,口語)子宮內避孕器

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原始詞典資料14 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

Coilname

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    A surname.

coilnoun詞源 1/kɔɪl/

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    Something wound in the form of a helix or spiral.

    • the sinuous coils of a snake
    • The wild grapevines that twisted their coils or tendrils from tree to tree.
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    gynaecologymedicinesciencesAny intrauterine device for contraception (originally coil-shaped).

    • ‘I’m gonna go on the pill and get fitted for a coil. I don’t wanna be pregnant. Ever. Again!’
    • And now, finally, the contraceptive burden would fall on me. After Hayley’s years of toil with a coil, and the pain of childbirth, I was due a little discomfort.
  • 3

    businesselectrical-engineeringelectricityA coil of electrically conductive wire through which electricity can flow.

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    A cylinder of clay.

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    Entanglement; perplexity.

    • What trifling coil do we mortals keep; Wake, eat, and drink, evacuate, and sleep.

coilverb詞源 1/kɔɪl/

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    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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    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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    To wind cylindrically or spirally.

    • to coil a rope when not in use
    • The snake coiled itself before springing.
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    To build a pot (etc) with clay coils.

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

    • a. 1757, Thomas Edwards, sonnet to Mr. Nathanael Mason Pleasure coil thee in her dangerous snare

coilnoun詞源 2/kɔɪl/

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    A noise, tumult, bustle, or turmoil.

    • a. 1738, Thomas Urquhart, Peter Anthony Motteux, and John Ozell (translators), François Rabelais, Gargantua and Pantagruel And when he saw that all the dogs were flocking about her, yarring at the retardment of their access to her, and every way keeping such a coil with her as they are wont to do about a proud or salt bitch, he forthwith departed […]
    • If the windes rage, doth not the Sea wax mad, / Threatning the welkin with his big-swolne face? / And wilt thou haue a reason for this coile?

coilnoun詞源 3/kɔɪl/

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    slanginformalA wad of cash.

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