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coil
Noun
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A coil is a long object in circular piles "wound continuously round one point" (Oxford Illustrated Dictionary).
s are usually stored as coils.
coil
Verb
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If you coil something, you wind it cylindrically or spirally around a common center.
The machine coils the wire at a very high speed.
winding
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adjective
(= tortuous, twisty)
marked by repeated turns and bends
a tortuous road up the mountain
winding roads are full of surprises
had to steer the car down a twisty track
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adjective
(= meandering, rambling, wandering)
of a path e.g
meandering streams
rambling forest paths
the river followed its wandering course
a winding country road
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noun
(= wind, twist)
the act of winding or twisting
he put the key in the old clock and gave it a good wind