Čo znamená coil v angličtine a aká je definícia coil?

V tomto najautoritatívnejšom anglickom slovníku sa môžete naučiť coil výslovnosť, gramatika a synonymá.

coil Význam & definícia

0 a length of rope, hair, or wire, arranged into a series of circles, one above or outside the other:
- A coil of rope lay on the beach.
- A coil of thick blue smoke rose up from his pipe.
1 an IUD (= a medical device to stop a woman becoming pregnant)
2 to arrange something in a coil:
- She coiled her hair into a neat bun on top of her head.
- The snake coiled itself tightly around the deer.
3 a length of rope or wire curled to form a series of circles, one above the other:
- Rob raised the heavy coil of rope to his shoulder.
- A coil of smoke rose from the chimney.

This embolized to the pulmonary artery, was retrieved and replaced with an 8 mm coil.
The foamy wavelets curled up to her white feet, and coiled like serpents about her ankles.
The presently available coil techniques, however, are considered unsafe because of risk of unwanted loss of the coil during the embolization maneuver.
Successful transcatheter closure of ventricular septal defects with retrievable coils is feasible even in close proximity to cardiac valves.
In the vessels with subtotal occlusion, a mean of 2.5 coils had been placed (p=ns).
The mean diameter of those three vessels where dislocation of coils occurred was 6.7 + 1.5 mm (range 5 - 8 mm) (p=ns).
Two abnormal systemic vessels supplying the sequestered lower part of the right lung were embolized using catheter-inserted coils.
Furthermore, both the tube and the coil are surrounded by the tube cooling, which protects the quartz tube from overheating.