Coil vs Wave - What's the difference?
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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 :
(lb) To move back and forth repeatedly.
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(lb) To have an undulating or wavy form.
(lb) To raise into inequalities of surface; to give an undulating form or surface to.
*(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
*:horns whelked and waved like the enridged sea
(lb) To produce waves to the hair.
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*:There was also hairdressing: hairdressing, too, really was hairdressing in those times — no running a comb through it and that was that. It was curled, frizzed, waved', put in curlers overnight, ' waved with hot tongs;.
To swing and miss at a pitch.
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(lb) To cause to move back and forth repeatedly.
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(lb) To signal (someone or something) with a waving movement.
To fluctuate; to waver; to be in an unsettled state.
*(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
*:He waved indifferently 'twixt doing them neither good nor harm.
To move like a wave, or by floating; to waft.
:(Sir Thomas Browne)
To call attention to, or give a direction or command to, by a waving motion, as of the hand; to signify by waving; to beckon; to signal; to indicate.
*(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
*:Look, with what courteous action / It waves you to a more removed ground.
* (1809-1892)
*:She spoke, and bowing waved / Dismissal.
A moving disturbance in the level of a body of water; an undulation.
(physics) A moving disturbance in the energy level of a field.
A shape that alternatingly curves in opposite directions.
(figuratively) A sudden unusually large amount of something that is temporarily experienced.
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A sideway movement of the hand(s).
A group activity in a crowd imitating a wave going through water, where people in successive parts of the crowd stand and stretch upward, then sit. Usually referred to as "the wave"
Coil is a related term of wave.
As nouns the difference between coil and wave
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 wave is a moving disturbance in the level of a body of water; an undulation.As verbs the difference between coil and wave
is that coil is to wind or reel eg a wire or rope into regular rings, often around a centerpiece while wave is (lb) to move back and forth repeatedly or wave can be .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
* ----wave
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) waven, from (etyl) .Verb
(wav)Rugby World Cup 2011: England 16-12 Scotland, passage=But the World Cup winning veteran's left boot was awry again, the attempt sliced horribly wide of the left upright, and the saltires were waving aloft again a moment later when a long pass in the England midfield was picked off to almost offer up a breakaway try.}}
Derived terms
* wave off * waver * wave the white flagEtymology 2
From (etyl) *.Noun
(en noun)- The wave traveled from the center of the lake before breaking on the shore.
- Gravity waves , while predicted by theory for decades, have been notoriously difficult to detect.
- Her hair had a nice wave to it.
- sine wave
- A wave of shoppers stampeded through the door when the store opened for its Christmas discount special.
- A wave of retirees began moving to the coastal area.
- A wave of emotion overcame her when she thought about her son who was killed in battle.
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- With a wave of the hand.