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Coiling vs Twisting - What's the difference?

coiling | twisting | Related terms |

As verbs the difference between coiling and twisting

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

As nouns the difference between coiling and twisting

is that coiling is the pattern or motion of something that coils while twisting is form of twist|lang=en.

As an adjective twisting is

having many twists.

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!"

    twisting

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • * {{quote-news, year=2009, date=August 23, author=Alexander Star, title=Richard Poirier: A Man of Good Reading, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=Tracing Emerson’s famous twistings and turnings, Mr. Poirier argued that even when he seemed most complacent
  • * 1984 , Theodore R. Sizer, Horace's Compromise: The Dilemma of the American High School
    • She was oblivious of all around her, and her facial twistings and scrunchings were droll.

    Adjective

    (head)
  • Having many twists
    • The mountain road is even more twisting than the valley road.