Coiled

Word COILED
Character 6
Hyphenation coiled
Pronunciations /kɔɪld/

Definitions and meanings of "Coiled"

What do we mean by coiled?

To wind or reel e.g. a wire or rope into regular rings, often around a centerpiece.

To wind into loops (roughly) around a common center.

To wind cylindrically or spirally.

To encircle and hold with, or as if with, coils.

Synonyms and Antonyms for Coiled

The word "coiled" in example sentences

One of them Martin coiled and held before his lips, and blew on it. ❋ Unknown (1922)

I see them swathed in coiled shadows and broad bands of light. ❋ Unknown (1891)

Watson and Crick found that certain evidence ex cluded the possibility that the two polynucleotide chains of a DNA molecule are paranemically coiled, that is, are so coiled that they can simply slip into and out of each other. ❋ BENTLEY GLASS (1968)

Kundalini, most often described as a coiled serpent existing within the body in conjunction with the chakras. ❋ Unknown (2009)

•Knees are bent at a subtle angle with your heels ever-so-slightly raised to assume a "coiled" position, ready to strike. ❋ Unknown (2006)

The static, "coiled" shapes appear to writhe on-screen. ❋ Unknown (2003)

She did not so much move toward him as strike, attacking him with the kind of coiled, primal sexual energy normally held in restraint beneath her noble poise. ❋ Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- (2004)

She got off the sofa, went over to the fish tank, peering in with a kind of coiled intensity as if she longed to shrink in size and jump into the salt water, becoming one with the crowd idling there. ❋ Lustbader, Eric (1980)

In the middle of the room a lank, angular figure was "coiled" about a mandolin, coaxing an old hymn from its strings. ❋ William Benjamin West (N/A)

The three villages on Second Mesa make a particular kind of coiled basket found nowhere else save in North Africa, and no pottery nor any other kind of basket. ❋ Hattie Greene Lockett (1921)

On the opposite side of the way some old Spaniards are selling a kind of coiled-up fritter by the yard, swimming in oil. ❋ Budgett Meakin (1886)

Grease-gray and kind of coiled, he plays pinball, Smokes those thin cigars, nurses lemon phosphates. ❋ Unknown (2010)

PORTLAND, ME-There's a kind of coiled grace in the way Kyle Drabek saunters toward the visitors 'bullpen at Hadlock Field, out there in the left-field shadow of a mini Green ❋ Unknown (2010)

Grease - grey and kind of coiled he plays pinball, smokes those thin cigars, nurses lemon phosphates. ❋ Unknown (2010)

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