| Library / English Dictionary |
COILED
| Pronunciation (US): |  | (GB): | |
I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Curled or wound (especially in concentric rings or spirals)
Example:
the rope lay coiled on the deck
Classified under:
Similar:
coiling; helical; spiral; spiraling; turbinate; volute; voluted; whorled (in the shape of a coil)
convolute; convoluted (rolled longitudinally upon itself)
involute ((of some shells) closely coiled so that the axis is obscured)
involute; rolled (especially of petals or leaves in bud; having margins rolled inward)
wound (put in a coil)
Antonym:
uncoiled (no longer coiled)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb coil
Context examples:
The former is common when the helices belong to different polypeptides and the latter prevails in coiled coils made up from a single polypeptide chain.
(Coiled-Coil Domain, NCI Thesaurus)
This species is urease and lipase negative, ferments cellobiose, fructose, galactose but not mannitol, hydrolyzes esculin, degrades mucin in the gastrointestinal tract and may appear helically coiled under the microscope.
(Clostridium cocleatum, NCI Thesaurus)
To make the yarns highly elastic, they introduced so much twist that the yarns coiled like an over-twisted rubber band.
(Energy-Harvesting Yarns Generate Electricity, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
So he once more searched the whole palace through, till at last he found a white snake, lying coiled up on a cushion in one of the chambers.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
A late precursor of a granulocyte in which the nucleus is in the form of a curved or coiled band, not having acquired the typical multilobar shape of the mature polymorphonuclear neutrophil.
(Band Cell, NCI Thesaurus)
Encoded by human APPBP2 Gene, ubiquitous 70 kD cytoplasmic Amyloid Beta Precursor Protein-Binding Protein 2 contains terminal globular structures, a coiled coil domain, PKC phosphorylation sites, and four imperfect C-terminal tandem repeats.
(Amyloid Beta Precursor Protein-Binding Protein 2, NCI Thesaurus)
This protein is comprised of the N-terminal nucleoporin GLFG repeat domains of the nuclear pore complex protein Nup98-Nup96 protein fused to the C-terminal coiled domain and nuclear localization sequence of the gamma-adducin protein.
(NUP98/ADD3 Fusion Protein, NCI Thesaurus)
We look into the glittering windows of the jewellers' shops; and I show Sophy which of the diamond-eyed serpents, coiled up on white satin rising grounds, I would give her if I could afford it; and Sophy shows me which of the gold watches that are capped and jewelled and engine-turned, and possessed of the horizontal lever-escape-movement, and all sorts of things, she would buy for me if she could afford it; and we pick out the spoons and forks, fish-slices, butter-knives, and sugar-tongs, we should both prefer if we could both afford it; and really we go away as if we had got them!
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
He sat coiled in his armchair, his haggard and ascetic face hardly visible amid the blue swirl of his tobacco smoke, his black brows drawn down, his forehead contracted, his eyes vacant and far away.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
In the kitchen a kettle was singing on the fire, and a large black cat lay coiled up in the basket; but there was no sign of the woman whom I had seen before.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
