A noise, tumult, bustle, or turmoil.
Any intrauterine device (Abbreviation: IUD)—the first IUDs were coil-shaped.
A coil of electrically conductive wire through which electricity can flow.
Entanglement; perplexity.
Something wound in the form of a helix or spiral.
A cylinder of clay.
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.
Anything that involves constant violent or chaotic activity around some centre.
A whirlwind, whirlpool, or similarly moving matter in the form of a spiral or column.
Anything that inevitably draws surrounding things into its current.
A supposed collection of particles of very subtle matter, endowed with a rapid rotary motion around an axis which was also the axis of a sun or planet; part of a Cartesian theory accounting for the formation of the universe, and the movements of the bodies composing it.
Any of numerous species of small Turbellaria belonging to Vortex and allied genera.
To mix using a vortex mixer