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Coiling vs Roiling - What's the difference?

coiling | roiling |

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

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!"

    roiling

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The motion of something that roils; a bubbling or seething.
  • * 2011 , Norman Spinrad, The Void Captain's Tale
  • 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.

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