Coil vs Sleep - What's the difference?
coil | sleep |
Something wound in the form of a helix or spiral.
* Washington Irving
Any intra-uterine contraceptive device (Abbreviation: IUD )—the first IUDs were coil-shaped.
(electrical) A coil of electrically conductive wire through which electricity can flow.
(figurative) Entanglement; perplexity.
To wind or reel e.g. a wire or rope into regular rings, often around a centerpiece.
To wind into loops (roughly) around a common center.
To wind cylindrically or spirally.
(obsolete, rare) To encircle and hold with, or as if with, coils.
A noise, tumult, bustle, or turmoil.
* 1594 , William Shakespeare, Titus Andronicus , Act III:
* 1624 , John Smith, Generall Historie , in Kupperman 1988, p. 162:
* 1704 , Jonathan Swift, A Tale of a Tub :
(uncountable) The state of reduced consciousness during which a human or animal rests in a daily rhythm.
(countable, informal) An act or instance of sleeping.
(uncountable) Rheum found in the corner of the eyes after waking, whether real or a figurative objectification of sleep (in the sense of reduced consciousness ).
A state of plants, usually at night, when their leaflets approach each other and the flowers close and droop, or are covered by the folded leaves.
* 1843 , Joh Müller, ?John Bell, Elements of Physiology (page 808)
To rest in a state of reduced consciousness.
(Of a spinning top) to spin on its axis with no other perceptible motion.
* 1854 , Anne E. Baker, Glossary of Northamptonshire Words and Phrases
To accommodate in beds.
To be slumbering in (a state).
To be careless, inattentive, or unconcerned; not to be vigilant; to live thoughtlessly.
* Atterbury
To be dead; to lie in the grave.
* Bible, 1 Thessalonians iv. 14
To be, or appear to be, in repose; to be quiet; to be unemployed, unused, or unagitated; to rest; to lie dormant.
* Shakespeare
(lb) to wait for a period of time without performing any action
As nouns the difference between coil and sleep
is that coil is something wound in the form of a helix or spiral or coil can be a noise, tumult, bustle, or turmoil while sleep is (uncountable) the state of reduced consciousness during which a human or animal rests in a daily rhythm.As verbs the difference between coil and sleep
is that coil is to wind or reel eg a wire or rope into regular rings, often around a centerpiece while sleep is to rest in a state of reduced consciousness.coil
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) ; compare legend.Noun
(en noun)- the sinuous coils of a snake
- The wild grapevines that twisted their coils from tree to tree.
Synonyms
* (coil of conductive wire) inductorDerived terms
* coil spring * impedance coil * mosquito coil * Oudin coil * Tesla coilVerb
(en verb)- A simple transformer can be made by coiling two pieces of insulated copper wire around an iron heart.
- The sailor coiled the free end of the hawser on the pier.
- to coil a rope when not in use
- The snake coiled itself before springing.
Etymology 2
Origin unknown.Noun
(en noun)- 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 ?
- this great Savage desired also to see him. A great coyle there was to set him forward.
- they continued so extremely fond of gold, that if Peter sent them abroad, though it were only upon a compliment, they would roar, and spit, and belch, and piss, and f—t, and snivel out fire, and keep a perpetual coil , till you flung them a bit of gold [...].
Quotations
* (English Citations of "coil")Derived terms
* mortal coilExternal links
* *Anagrams
* ----sleep
English
(wikipedia sleep)Noun
- I really need some sleep .
- We need to conduct an overnight sleep''' test to diagnose your '''sleep problem.
- I’m just going to have a quick sleep .
- Wipe the sleep from your eyes .
- The daily sleep of plants, and their winter sleep, present in this respect exactly similar phenomena
Synonyms
* See also * (rheum) (l) (slang), (l) (UK dialectal), sleepy dust (informal)Derived terms
(Terms derived from the noun "sleep") * asleep * beauty sleep * big sleep * biphasic sleep * dead sleep * deep sleep * divided sleep * dog sleep * electrosleep * go to sleep * morning sleep * orthodox sleep * polyphasic sleep * put to sleep * REM sleep * segmented sleep * sleep apnea * sleep-charged * sleep debt * sleep deprivation * sleep disorder * sleepful * sleep-learning * sleepless * sleep mask * sleep mode * sleepover * sleep paralysis * sleep schedule * sleep spindle * sleeptalk * sleepyVerb
- You should sleep 8 hours a day .
- A top sleeps when it moves with such velocity, and spins so smoothly, that its motion is imperceptible.
- When a top is sleeping , it is spinning but not precessing.
- This caravan can sleep up to four people .
- to sleep a dreamless sleep
- (Tennyson)
- We sleep over our happiness.
- Them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him.
- a question sleeps''' for the present; the law '''sleeps
- How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank!
