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Coiling vs Uncoiling - What's the difference?

coiling | uncoiling |

As verbs the difference between coiling and uncoiling

is that coiling is while uncoiling is .

As nouns the difference between coiling and uncoiling

is that coiling is the pattern or motion of something that coils while uncoiling is the act of something being uncoiled.

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!"

    uncoiling

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of something being uncoiled.
  • * 1861 , Great Britain. Privy Council. Committee for Trade, Report of the joint committee appointed by the Lords of the Committee of Privy Council for Trade and the Atlantic Telegraph Company to inquire into the construction of submarine telegraph cables together with the minutes of evidence and appendix (page 117)
    • I have no idea that repeated coilings and uncoilings can do any harm whatever to a piece of sound cable