Coiling vs Roiling - What's the difference?
coiling | roiling |
The pattern or motion of something that coils.
* (Herman Melville), The Encantadas
The motion of something that roils; a bubbling or seething.
* 2011 , Norman Spinrad, The Void Captain's Tale
As verbs the difference between coiling and roiling
is that coiling is while roiling is .As nouns the difference between coiling and roiling
is that coiling is the pattern or motion of something that coils while roiling is the motion of something that roils; a bubbling or seething.coiling
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(en noun)- 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!"
roiling
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(en noun)- Truth be told with hindsight's vision, these musings were no doubt the externalization of the roilings and bubblings beginning to stir the deeper waters of my own being.
