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Coiling vs Contortion - What's the difference?

coiling | contortion | Related terms |

As nouns the difference between coiling and contortion

is that coiling is the pattern or motion of something that coils while contortion is the act of contorting, twisting or deforming something, especially oneself.

As a verb coiling

is present participle of lang=en.

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!"

    contortion

    English

    (wikipedia contortion)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of contorting, twisting or deforming something, especially oneself.
  • A form of acrobatic display which involves the dramatic bending and flexing of the human body.

    • Derived terms

    * contortionist