coil vs cylinder

coil

noun
  • A cylinder of clay. 

  • Any intrauterine device (Abbreviation: IUD)—the first IUDs were coil-shaped. 

  • A coil of electrically conductive wire through which electricity can flow. 

  • Entanglement; perplexity. 

  • A noise, tumult, bustle, or turmoil. 

  • Something wound in the form of a helix or spiral. 

verb
  • To build a pot (etc) with clay coils. 

  • To wind cylindrically or spirally. 

  • To wind or reel e.g. a wire or rope into regular rings, often around a centerpiece. 

  • To wind into loops (roughly) around a common center. 

cylinder

noun
  • A container in the form of a cylinder with rounded ends for storing pressurized gas; a gas cylinder. 

  • A surface created by projecting a closed two-dimensional curve along an axis intersecting the plane of the curve. 

  • Any object in the form of a circular cylinder. 

  • The part of a revolver that contains chambers for the cartridges. 

  • An early form of phonograph recording, made on a wax cylinder. 

  • A cylindrical cavity or chamber in a mechanism, such as the counterpart to a piston found in a piston-driven engine. 

  • The corresponding tracks on a vertical arrangement of disks in a disk drive considered as a unit of data capacity. 

  • The space in which a piston travels inside a reciprocating engine or pump. 

  • A solid figure bounded by a cylinder and two parallel planes intersecting the cylinder. 

verb
  • To calender; to press (paper, etc.) between rollers to make it glossy. 

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