coil: [16] Ultimately, coil, cull, and collect are the same word. All come from Latin colligere ‘gather together’. Its past participial stem produced collect, but the infinitive form passed into Old French as coillir, culler, etc, and thence into English. In the case of coil, its original general sense ‘gather, collect’ (of which there is no trace in English) was specialized, no doubt originally in nautical use, to the gathering up of ropes into tidy shapes (concentric rings) for stowage. => collect, cull
coil (v.)
"to wind," 1610s, from Middle French coillir "to gather, pick," from Latin colligere "to gather together" (see collect). Meaning specialized perhaps in nautical usage. Related: Coiled; coiling.
coil (n.)
1620s, from coil (v.). Related: Coils.
雙語例句
1. The heated gas is piped through a coil surrounded by water.
受熱氣體通過水中的盤管輸送。
來自柯林斯例句
2. Coil the fibre into a helix.
將纖維卷繞成螺旋形。
來自柯林斯例句
3. a coil of copper wire
一卷銅絲
來自《權威詞典》
4. There is a fly on her loose coil of hair.
在她蓬松的頭發上有一只蒼蠅.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》
5. A snake can coil itself up or coil around a branch.