Synonyms of the word

coil

• n. Something wound in the form of a helix or spiral.
• n. Any intrauterine device (Abbreviation: IUD)—the first IUDs were coil-shaped.
• n. (electrical) A coil of electrically conductive wire through which electricity can flow.
• n. (figuratively) Entanglement; perplexity.
• v. To wind or reel e.g. a wire or rope into regular rings, often around a centerpiece.
• v. To wind into loops (roughly) around a common center.
• v. To wind cylindrically or spirally.
• v. (obsolete, rare) To encircle and hold with, or as if with, coils.
• n. (now obsolete except in phrases) A noise, tumult, bustle, or turmoil.

construction

• n. The process of constructing.
• n. Anything that has been constructed.
• n. The trade of building structures.
• n. A building, model or some other structure.
• n. (art) A (usually non-representational) structure, such as a collage etc.
• n. The manner in which something is built.
• n. (grammar) A group of words arranged to form a meaningful phrase.
• n. The act or result of construing the meaning of something.
• n. The meaning or interpretation of a text, action etc.; the way something is viewed by an observer or onlooker.
• n. (geometry) A geometric figure of arcs and line segments that is drawable with a straightedge and compass.

contraceptive

• adj. That acts to prevent conception as a result of sexual intercourse.
• n. A mechanism or means by which conception as a result of sexual intercourse can be prevented or made less…

curl

• n. A piece or lock of curling hair; a ringlet.
• n. A curved stroke or shape.
• n. A spin making the trajectory of an object curve.
• n. (curling) Movement of a moving rock away from a straight line.
• n. (weightlifting) Any exercise performed by bending the arm, wrist, or leg on the exertion against resistance,…
• n. (calculus) The vector field denoting the rotationality of a given vector field.
• n. (agriculture) Any of various diseases of plants causing the leaves or shoots to curl up; often specifically…
• n. (music, chiefly lutherie) The contrasting light and dark figure seen in wood used for stringed instrument…
• v. (transitive) To cause to move in a curve.
• v. (transitive) To make into a curl or spiral.
• v. (intransitive) To assume the shape of a curl or spiral.
• v. (intransitive) To move in curves.
• v. (intransitive, curling) To take part in the sport of curling.
• v. (transitive, weightlifting) To exercise by bending the arm, wrist, or leg on the exertion against resistance,…
• v. To twist or form (the hair, etc.) into ringlets.
• v. To deck with, or as if with, curls; to ornament.
• v. To raise in waves or undulations; to ripple.
• v. (hat-making) To shape (the brim of a hat) into a curve.

curlicue

• n. A fancy twisting or curling shape made from a series of concentric circles.
• v. (transitive and intransitive) To make or adorn (something) with curlicues, or as if with curlicues.

forge

• n. Furnace or hearth where metals are heated prior to hammering them into shape.
• n. Workshop in which metals are shaped by heating and hammering them.
• n. The act of beating or working iron or steel.
• v. (metallurgy) To shape a metal by heating and hammering.
• v. To form or create with concerted effort.
• v. To create a forgery of; to make a counterfeit item of; to copy or imitate unlawfully.
• v. To make falsely; to produce, as that which is untrue or not genuine; to fabricate.
• v. (often as forge ahead) To move forward heavily and slowly (originally as a ship); to advance gradually…
• v. (sometimes as forge ahead) To advance, move or act with an abrupt increase in speed or energy.

form

• n. (heading, physical) To do with shape.
• n. (social) To do with structure or procedure.
• n. A blank document or template to be filled in by the user.
• n. Level of performance.
• n. (grammar) A grouping of words which maintain grammatical context in different usages; the particular shape…
• n. The den or home of a hare.
• n. (computing, programming) A window or dialogue box.
• n. (taxonomy) An infraspecific rank.
• n. (printing, dated) The type or other matter from which an impression is to be taken, arranged and secured…
• n. (geometry) A quantic.
• n. (sports, fitness) A specific way of performing a movement.
• v. (transitive) To assume (a certain shape or visible structure).
• v. (transitive) To give (a shape or visible structure) to a thing or person.
• v. (intransitive) To take shape.
• v. To put together or bring into being; assemble.
• v. (transitive, linguistics) To create (a word) by inflection or derivation.
• v. (transitive) To constitute, to compose, to make up.
• v. To mould or model by instruction or discipline.
• v. To provide (a hare) with a form.
• v. (electrical, historical, transitive) To treat (plates) to prepare them for introduction into a storage…

gyrate

• v. To revolve round a central point; to move spirally about an axis, as a tornado; to revolve.
• adj. (biology) Having coils or convolutions.

gyre

• n. a swirling vortex.
• n. a circular current, especially a large-scale ocean current.
• n. A circular motion, or a circle described by a moving body; a turn or revolution; a circuit.
• v. (intransitive) to whirl.

helix

• n. (mathematics) A curve on the surface of a cylinder or cone such that its angle to a plane perpendicular…
• n. (architecture) A small volute under the abacus of a Corinthian capital.
• n. (anatomy) The incurved rim of the external ear.
• n. An upside down midair 360° spin in playboating.

loop

• n. A length of thread, line or rope that is doubled over to make an opening.
• n. The opening so formed.
• n. A shape produced by a curve that bends around and crosses itself.
• n. A ring road or beltway.
• n. An endless strip of tape or film allowing continuous repetition.
• n. A complete circuit for an electric current.
• n. (programming) A programmed sequence of instructions that is repeated until or while a particular condition…
• n. (graph theory) An edge that begins and ends on the same vertex.
• n. (topology) A path that starts and ends at the same point.
• n. (transport) A bus or rail route, walking route, etc. that starts and ends at the same point.
• n. (algebra) A quasigroup with an identity element.
• n. A loop-shaped intrauterine device.
• n. An aerobatic maneuver in which an aircraft flies a circular path in a vertical plane.
• n. A small, narrow opening; a loophole.
• n. Alternative form of loup (mass of iron).
• n. (biochemistry) A flexible region in a protein's secondary structure.
• v. (transitive) To form something into a loop.
• v. (transitive) To fasten or encircle something with a loop.
• v. (transitive) To fly an aircraft in a loop.
• v. (transitive) To move something in a loop.
• v. (transitive) To join electrical components to complete a circuit.
• v. (transitive) To duplicate the route of a pipeline.
• v. (transitive) To create an error in a computer program so that it runs in an endless loop and the computer…
• v. (intransitive) To form a loop.
• v. (intransitive) To move in a loop.

mold

• n. A hollow form or matrix for shaping a fluid or plastic substance.
• n. A frame or model around or on which something is formed or shaped.
• n. Something that is made in or shaped on a mold.
• n. The shape or pattern of a mold.
• n. General shape or form.
• n. Distinctive character or type.
• n. A fixed or restrictive pattern or form.
• n. (architecture) A group of moldings.
• n. (anatomy) A fontanelle.
• v. (transitive) To shape in or on a mold.
• v. (transitive) To form into a particular shape; to give shape to.
• v. (transitive) To guide or determine the growth or development of; influence.
• v. (transitive) To fit closely by following the contours of.
• v. (transitive) To make a mold of or from (molten metal, for example) before casting.
• v. (transitive) To ornament with moldings.
• v. (intransitive) To be shaped in or as if in a mold.
• n. A natural substance in the form of a woolly or furry growth of tiny fungi that appears when organic material…
• v. (transitive) To cause to become moldy; to cause mold to grow upon.
• v. (intransitive) To become moldy; to be covered or filled, in whole or in part, with a mold.
• n. Loose friable soil, rich in humus and fit for planting.
• v. To cover with mold or soil.

mould

• n. (Britain, Canada, Australia) Alternative spelling of mold.
• v. (Britain, Canada, Australia) Alternative spelling of mold.

preventative

• adj. Alternative form of preventive.
• n. Alternative form of preventive.

preventive

• adj. Preventing, hindering, or acting as an obstacle to.
• adj. Carried out to deter military aggression.
• adj. Slowing the development of an illness; prophylactic.
• adj. (obsolete) Going before; preceding.
• n. (dated) A thing that prevents, hinders, or acts as an obstacle to.
• n. (nonstandard) A thing that slows the development of an illness.
• n. A contraceptive, especially a condom.

reactor

• n. A person who behaves in response to a suggestion, stimulation or some other influence.
• n. (industrial) A structure used to contain chemical or other reactions.
• n. (nuclear physics) A device which uses atomic energy to produce heat.
• n. (chemistry) A chemical substance which responds to the presence or contact with another substance.

ringlet

• n. A small ring.
• n. A lock, tress.
• n. A brown butterfly with numerous small rings on under wings, in the tribe Satyrini of the family Nymphalidae,…

roll

• v. (ergative) To cause to revolve by turning over and over; to move by turning on an axis; to impel forward…
• v. (intransitive) To turn over and over.
• v. To tumble in gymnastics; to do a somersault.
• v. (transitive) To wrap (something) round on itself; to form into a spherical or cylindrical body by causing…
• v. (transitive) To bind or involve by winding, as in a bandage; to enwrap; often with up.
• v. (intransitive) To be wound or formed into a cylinder or ball.
• v. (ergative) To drive or impel forward with an easy motion, as of rolling.
• v. (ergative) To utter copiously, especially with sounding words; to utter with a deep sound; — often with…
• v. To press or level with a roller; to spread or form with a roll, roller, or rollers.
• v. (intransitive) To spread itself under a roller or rolling-pin.
• v. (ergative) To move, or cause to be moved, upon, or by means of, rollers or small wheels.
• v. (chiefly US, Canada, colloquial) To leave or begin a journey.
• v. (chiefly US, Canada, colloquial) To compete, especially with vigor.
• v. To beat with rapid, continuous strokes, as a drum; to sound a roll upon.
• v. (geometry) To apply (one line or surface) to another without slipping; to bring all the parts of (one…
• v. To turn over in one's mind; to revolve.
• v. (US, slang) To behave in a certain way; to adopt a general disposition toward a situation.
• v. (dice games, transitive, intransitive) To throw dice.
• v. (dice games, transitive) To roll dice such that they form a given pattern or total.
• v. (role-playing games) To create a new character in a role-playing game, especially by using dice to determine…
• v. (computing) To generate a random number.
• v. (nautical, of a vessel) To rotate on its fore-and-aft axis, causing its sides to go up and down. Compare…
• v. (transitive) To beat up; to attack and cause physical damage to.
• v. (transitive, slang) To cause to betray secrets or to testify for the prosecution.
• v. (intransitive, slang) To betray secrets.
• v. (slang) To be under the influence of MDMA (a psychedelic stimulant, also known as ecstasy).
• v. (intransitive, of a camera) To film.
• v. (transitive, soccer) To slip past (a defender) with the ball.
• v. To have a rolling aspect.
• v. (figuratively, intranstive) To perform a periodical revolution; to move onward as with a revolution.
• v. To move, like waves or billows, with alternate swell and depression.
• v. (figuratively, intransitive) to move and cause an effect on someone.
• v. (intransitive) To make a loud or heavy rumbling noise.
• n. The act of rolling, or state of being rolled.
• n. A forward or backward roll in gymnastics; going head over heels. A tumble.
• n. That which rolls; a roller.
• n. A kind of shortened raised biscuit or bread, often rolled or doubled upon itself; see also bread roll.
• n. (nautical, aviation) The oscillating movement of a nautical vessel as it rotates from side to side, on…
• n. (nautical) The measure or extent to which a vessel rotates from side to side, on its fore-and-aft axis.
• n. A heavy, reverberatory sound.
• n. The uniform beating of a drum with strokes so rapid as scarcely to be distinguished by the ear.
• n. (obsolete) Part; office; duty; rôle.
• n. A measure of parchments, containing five dozen.
• n. The rotation angle about the longitudinal axis.
• n. The act of, or total resulting from, rolling one or more dice.
• n. A winning streak of continuing luck, especially at gambling (and especially in the phrase on a roll).
• n. A training match for a fighting dog.

scroll

• n. A roll of paper or parchment; a writing formed into a roll; a schedule; a list.
• n. (architecture) An ornament formed of undulations giving off spirals or sprays, usually suggestive of plant…
• n. A mark or flourish added to a person's signature, intended to represent a seal, and in some States allowed…
• n. Scroll-shaped end of a violin.
• n. (geometry) a skew surface.
• v. (computing, transitive) To change one's view of data on a computer's display, typically using a scroll…
• v. (intransitive) To move in or out of view horizontally or vertically.
• v. (Internet, intransitive) To flood a chat system with numerous lines of text, causing legitimate messages…

shape

• n. The status or condition of something.
• n. Condition of personal health, especially muscular health.
• n. The appearance of something, especially its outline.
• n. Form; formation.
• n. (iron manufacture) A rolled or hammered piece, such as a bar, beam, angle iron, etc., having a cross section…
• n. (iron manufacture) A piece which has been roughly forged nearly to the form it will receive when completely…
• n. (cooking, now rare) A mould for making jelly, blancmange etc., or a piece of such food formed moulded…
• n. (programming) In the Hack programming language, a group of data fields each of which has a name and a…
• v. (Northern England, Scotland, rare) To create or make.
• v. (transitive) To give something a shape and definition.
• v. To form or manipulate something into a certain shape.
• v. (of a country, person, etc) To give influence to.
• v. To suit; to be adjusted or conformable.
• v. (obsolete) To imagine; to conceive.

spiral

• n. (geometry) A curve that is the locus of a point that rotates about a fixed point while continuously increasing…
• n. (informal) A helix.
• n. A self-sustaining process with a lot of momentum involved, so it is difficult to accelerate or stop it…
• adj. Helical, like a spiral.
• v. (intransitive) To move along the path of a spiral or helix.
• v. (transitive) To cause something to spiral.
• v. (figuratively, intransitive) To increase continually.

structure

• n. A cohesive whole built up of distinct parts.
• n. The underlying shape of a solid.
• n. The overall form or organization of something.
• n. A set of rules defining behaviour.
• n. (computing) Several pieces of data treated as a unit.
• n. (fishing, uncountable) Underwater terrain or objects (such as a dead tree or a submerged car) that tend…
• n. A body, such as a political party, with a cohesive purpose or outlook.
• n. (logic) A set along with a collection of finitary functions and relations.
• v. (transitive) To give structure to; to arrange.

transformer

• n. Something that transforms, changing its own or another thing's shape.
• n. (electrical engineering) A static device that transfers electric energy from one circuit to another by…
• n. Alternative letter-case form of Transformer.

tube

• n. Anything that is hollow and cylindrical in shape.
• n. An approximately cylindrical container, usually with a crimped end and a screw top, used to contain and…
• n. (Britain, colloquial, often capitalized as Tube) The London Underground railway system, originally referred…
• n. (Australia, slang) A tin can containing beer (or other beverage?).
• n. (surfing) A wave which pitches forward when breaking, creating a hollow space inside.
• n. (Canada, US, colloquial) A television. Also, derisively, boob tube. British: telly.
• v. To make or use tubes.

tubing

• n. tubes, considered as a group.
• n. a length of tube, or a system of tubes.
• n. the recreation of riding down a river on an inner tube.
• v. present participle of tube.

turn

• v. (heading) Non-linear physical movement.
• v. (heading, intransitive) To change condition or attitude.
• v. (obsolete, reflexive) To change one's course of action; to take a new approach.
• v. (transitive, usually with over) To complete.
• v. (transitive, soccer) Of a player, to go past an opposition player with the ball in one's control.
• v. To undergo the process of turning on a lathe.
• v. (obstetrics) To bring down the feet of a child in the womb, in order to facilitate delivery.
• v. (printing, dated) To invert a type of the same thickness, as a temporary substitute for any sort which…
• v. (archaic) To translate.
• n. A change of direction or orientation.
• n. A movement of an object about its own axis in one direction that continues until the object returns to…
• n. A single loop of a coil.
• n. A chance to use (something) shared in sequence with others.
• n. The time allotted to a person in a rota or schedule.
• n. One's chance to make a move in a game having two or more players.
• n. A figure in music, often denoted ~, consisting of the note above the one indicated, the note itself, the…
• n. (also turnaround) The time required to complete a project.
• n. A fit or a period of giddiness.
• n. A change in temperament or circumstance.
• n. (cricket) A sideways movement of the ball when it bounces (caused by rotation in flight).
• n. (poker) The fourth communal card in Texas hold 'em.
• n. (poker, obsolete) The flop (the first three community cards) in Texas hold 'em.
• n. A deed done to another.
• n. (rope) A pass behind or through an object.
• n. Character; personality; nature.
• n. (soccer) An instance of going past an opposition player with the ball in one's control.
• n. (circus) A short skit, act, or routine.

twine

• n. A twist; a convolution.
• n. A strong thread composed of two or three smaller threads or strands twisted together, and used for various…
• n. The act of twining or winding round.
• n. Intimate and suggestive dance gyrations.
• v. (transitive) To weave together.
• v. (transitive) To wind, as one thread around another, or as any flexible substance around another body.
• v. (transitive) To wind about; to embrace; to entwine.
• v. (intransitive) To mutually twist together; to become mutually involved; to intertwine.
• v. (intransitive) To wind; to bend; to make turns; to meander.
• v. (intransitive) To ascend in spiral lines about a support; to climb spirally.
• v. (obsolete) To turn round; to revolve.
• v. (obsolete) To change the direction of.
• v. (obsolete) To mingle; to mix.

volute

• n. (architecture) The spiral curve on an Ionic capital.
• n. (zoology) The spirals or whorls on a gastropod's shell.
• n. (zoology) Any marine gastropod of the family Volutidae.
• n. (engineering) The casing in a centrifugal pump, whose shape is somewhat similar to architectural volutes.
• n. (art) A spiral or scroll form.
• n. (music) A scroll-shaped carving at the tuning head of a stringed musical instrument, similar to architectural…
• adj. (engineering) Of a spring: having a spiral curve on its tail.

whorl

• n. A pattern of concentric circles.
• n. (botany) A circle of three or more leaves, flowers, or other organs, about the same part or joint of a…
• n. (zoology) A volution, or turn, of the spire of a univalve shell.
• n. (archaic) A flywheel, a weight attached to a spindle, compare 1460.
• v. (intransitive) To form a pattern of concentric circles.

wind

• n. (countable, uncountable) Real or perceived movement of atmospheric air usually caused by convection or…
• n. Air artificially put in motion by any force or action.
• n. (countable, uncountable) The ability to breathe easily.
• n. News of an event, especially by hearsay or gossip. (Used with catch, often in the past tense.).
• n. (India and Japan) One of the five basic elements (see Wikipedia article on the Classical elements).
• n. (uncountable, colloquial) Flatus.
• n. Breath modulated by the respiratory and vocal organs, or by an instrument.
• n. A direction from which the wind may blow; a point of the compass; especially, one of the cardinal points,…
• n. A disease of sheep, in which the intestines are distended with air, or rather affected with a violent…
• n. Mere breath or talk; empty effort; idle words.
• n. A bird, the dotterel.
• n. (boxing, slang) The region of the solar plexus, where a blow may paralyze the diaphragm and cause temporary…
• v. (transitive) To blow air through a wind instrument or horn to make a sound.
• v. (transitive) To cause (someone) to become breathless, often by a blow to the abdomen.
• v. (reflexive) To exhaust oneself to the point of being short of breath.
• v. (Britain) To turn a boat or ship around, so that the wind strikes it on the opposite side.
• v. (transitive) To expose to the wind; to winnow; to ventilate.
• v. (transitive) To perceive or follow by scent.
• v. (transitive) To rest (a horse, etc.) in order to allow the breath to be recovered; to breathe.
• v. (transitive) To turn a windmill so that its sails face into the wind.
• v. (transitive) To turn coils of (a cord or something similar) around something.
• v. (transitive) To tighten the spring of a clockwork mechanism such as that of a clock.
• v. To entwist; to enfold; to encircle.
• v. (ergative) To travel, or to cause something to travel, in a way that is not straight.
• v. To have complete control over; to turn and bend at one's pleasure; to vary or alter or will; to regulate;…
• v. To introduce by insinuation; to insinuate.
• v. To cover or surround with something coiled about.
• n. The act of winding or turning; a turn; a bend; a twist.

work

• n. (heading, uncountable) Employment.
• n. (heading, uncountable) Effort.
• n. Sustained effort to achieve a goal or result, especially overcoming obstacles.
• n. (heading) Product; the result of effort.
• n. (uncountable, slang, professional wrestling) The staging of events to appear as real.
• n. (mining) Ore before it is dressed.
• v. (intransitive) To do a specific task by employing physical or mental powers.
• v. (transitive) To effect by gradual degrees.
• v. (transitive) To embroider with thread.
• v. (transitive) To set into action.
• v. (transitive) To cause to ferment.
• v. (intransitive) To ferment.
• v. (transitive) To exhaust, by working.
• v. (transitive) To shape, form, or improve a material.
• v. (transitive) To operate in a certain place, area, or speciality.
• v. (transitive) To operate in or through; as, to work the phones.
• v. (transitive) To provoke or excite; to influence.
• v. (transitive) To use or manipulate to one’s advantage.
• v. (transitive) To cause to happen or to occur as a consequence.
• v. (transitive) To cause to work.
• v. (intransitive) To function correctly; to act as intended; to achieve the goal designed for.
• v. (intransitive, figuratively) To influence.
• v. (intransitive) To effect by gradual degrees; as, to work into the earth.
• v. (intransitive) To move in an agitated manner.
• v. (intransitive) To behave in a certain way when handled;.
• v. (transitive, with two objects, poetic) To cause (someone) to feel (something).
• v. (obsolete, intransitive) To hurt; to ache.

wrap

• v. (transitive) To enclose (an object) completely in any flexible, thin material such as fabric or paper.
• v. (transitive) To enclose or coil around an object or organism, as a form of grasping.
• v. (figuratively) To conceal by enveloping or enfolding; to hide.
• v. (transitive or intransitive, video production) To finish shooting (filming) a video, television show,…
• v. (lines, words, text, etc.) To break a continuous line (of text) onto the next line.
• v. (computing, transitive) To make functionality available through a software wrapper.
• n. A garment that one wraps around the body to keep oneself warm.
• n. A type of food consisting of various ingredients wrapped in a tortilla or pancake.
• n. (entertainment) The completion of all or a major part of a performance.
• n. A wraparound mortgage.