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Coiling vs Foiling - What's the difference?

coiling | foiling |

As verbs the difference between coiling and foiling

is that coiling is present participle of lang=en while foiling is present participle of lang=en.

As nouns the difference between coiling and foiling

is that coiling is the pattern or motion of something that coils while foiling is the act by which something is foiled; prevention of success.

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!"

    foiling

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act by which something is foiled; prevention of success.
    • the foilings of our expectations
  • (hunting) The track of game, such as deer, in the grass.
  • (architecture) A foil.
    • (Simmonds)