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.
双语例句
1. The heated gas is piped through a coil surrounded by water.
受热气体通过水中的盘管输送。
来自柯林斯例句
2. Coil the fibre into a helix.
将纤维卷绕成螺旋形。
来自柯林斯例句
3. a coil of copper wire
一卷铜丝
来自《权威词典》
4. There is a fly on her loose coil of hair.
在她蓬松的头发上有一只苍蝇.
来自《简明英汉词典》
5. A snake can coil itself up or coil around a branch.