I. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a coil of wire
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The coil of barbed wire will be used for a fence.
a snake coils itself around sth
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The snake coiled itself around the branch.
induction coil
shuffled off this mortal coil (= died )
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when Hubbard shuffled off this mortal coil
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
mortal coil
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Morse and Meldrew both shuffled off this mortal coil and the telly world is diminished by their passing.
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Times had certainly changed since he had shuffled off the old mortal coil.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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A student discovered the 12-foot python coiled in a corner of the classroom.
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Wrap the bar with heavy string, coiling it tightly for safety.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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As she hurried to grab a taxi to the hotel she could feel her stomach coiling into knots of dread.
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He bumbled around for a bit, trying to coil up the string and push the wood into tidy heaps.
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He stood for a while watching the headlights coil down the canyon road.
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It took a minute to turn the handle 60 times and fully coil the spring.
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Quickly coiling the bow line, he raised the main, then back to the cockpit.
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Rachel didn't like the tension coiling in her stomach at the thought of that.
II. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
mortal
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Times had certainly changed since he had shuffled off the old mortal coil .
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Morse and Meldrew both shuffled off this mortal coil and the telly world is diminished by their passing.
■ NOUN
pickup
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The other acts as a pickup coil producing a voltage proportional to the rate of change of magnetic flux linking it.
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The signals generated in the pickup coils are not neat rectangular pulses although their amplitudes very with the external field.
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The voltage induced in the pickup coil by this waveform is directly proportional to the rate of change of magnetic induction.
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The finished transducer includes a second pickup coil at right angles to the first.
■ VERB
shuffle
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Morse and Meldrew both shuffled off this mortal coil and the telly world is diminished by their passing.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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There should be frost all over the freezer coil .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Condenser coils are the tubes under or behind the refrigerator that carry coolant to the refrigeration unit.
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Ever use one of those coils around Halloween time?
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I pinned the braids in a coil on top of the waved cap of hair.
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It is linked to the magnetic field of the transmitted wave - not the turns of the coil .
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Massive coils atop the building hissed and cracked through the day, but the doors never opened.
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The snake wrapped its coils around her.
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Twist the wire round the foot so that it sits tightly, forming a protective coil around the tubular feet.