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Cooling vs Coiling - What's the difference?

cooling | coiling |

As verbs the difference between cooling and coiling

is that cooling is while coiling is .

As nouns the difference between cooling and coiling

is that cooling is a decrease in temperature while coiling is the pattern or motion of something that coils.

As an adjective cooling

is that cools.

cooling

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • a decrease in temperature
  • refrigeration

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • that cools

    • Derived terms

    * cooling board * cooling curve * cooling-off period * cooling pond * cooling rack * cooling tower

    coiling

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The pattern or motion of something that coils.
  • * (Herman Melville), The Encantadas
    • Holding out her small olive hand before her captain, she said in mild and slowest Spanish, "Senor, I buried him;" then paused, struggled as against the writhed coilings of a snake, and cringing suddenly, leaped up, repeating in impassioned pain, "I buried him, my life, my soul!"