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Oiling vs Coiling - What's the difference?

oiling | coiling |

As verbs the difference between oiling and coiling

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

As nouns the difference between oiling and coiling

is that oiling is an application of oil while coiling is the pattern or motion of something that coils.

oiling

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • An application of oil.

    • 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!"