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Coiling vs Winding - What's the difference?

coiling | winding | Related terms |

As verbs the difference between coiling and winding

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

As nouns the difference between coiling and winding

is that coiling is the pattern or motion of something that coils while winding is something wound around something else.

As an adjective winding is

twisting, turning or sinuous.

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!"

    winding

    Etymology 1

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    Verb

    (head)
  • Noun

  • something wound around something else
  • the manner in which something is wound
  • one complete turn of something wound
  • (electrical) a length of wire wound around the core of an electrical transformer
  • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • twisting, turning or sinuous
  • spiral or helical
  • Etymology 2

    , as the wind was used to assist turning.

    Verb

    (head)
  • Noun

  • the act or process of winding (turning around)
  • Derived terms

    (Winding hole) * winding hole

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