🇬🇧 Coil meaning: English Vocabulary Flash Card

A coil is a long thing, like rope, wire, or even hair, that is wrapped around and around into a pile of circles. Imagine taking a long string and carefully winding it into a neat spiral shape, so it looks like a round stack of loops. That round stack of loops is called a coil.

The slinky rested in a shiny coil, judging me for dropping it down the stairs again.

The garden hose sat in a neat coil, pretending to be innocent before it sprayed me in the face.

The coil of rope in the garage is so dusty I think a family of spiders pays rent there.

I rolled my belt into a coil, and my dog thought it was a very serious, very boring toy.

In some heaters, metal is bent into a hot glowing coil to warm the air.

An old man lifts a dusty coil from the shed. The coil sits like a sleeping snake. He loosens the coil and finds a small tin beneath. He drags the coil into light, unwinding it until the coil becomes a straight rope in his hands. He smiles, holding the tidy coil and the tin.

This word is at the C2 level, which means it represents the highest mastery of English. It’s often used in specialized or highly formal contexts and helps you communicate with precision and subtlety, much like a native speaker.

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