Synonyms:
coiling, helical, spiral, spiraling, volute, voluted, whorled, turbinate
Meaning: in the shape of a coil
noun
meaning of the word
Synonyms:
spiral
Meaning: a plane curve traced by a point circling about the center but at increasing distances from the center
verb
meaning of the word
Synonyms:
gyrate, spiral, coil
Meaning: to wind or move in a spiral course; "the muscles and nerves of his fine drawn body were coiling for action"; "black smoke coiling up into the sky"; "the young people gyrated on the dance floor"
Usage examples
"Look at its spiral!"
Michael followed him, however, if only out of politeness, down an apparently interminable spiral of staircase.
We had our glasses out; even Terry, setting his machine for a spiral glide, clapped the binoculars to his eyes.
The dilating apparatus appeared to be in good condition, and neither the battery nor the spiral had been injured.
Chris, his cheeks hot from excitement and the fire, tiptoed out just as Mr. Wicker's step creaked on the topmost tread of the spiral stair.
They are put together with a double-lapped spiral seam to give expansion-resisting qualities, and as an additional precaution small metal rings are slipped on the outside.
The doctor rekindled the light in the cylinder; the spiral became heated; the current of hydrogen came in a few minutes, and the gas dilated; but the balloon did not stir an inch.
He heard the magician going up the spiral staircase to his room above, and after changing himself to a mouse to slip under the door and see that the room was really empty, Chris resumed his proper shape and opened the doors of the cupboard at the far end of the room.
To carry out this law to the best advantage in regard to platina, etc., then with a given length of wire to quadruple the heat we must lessen the radiating surface to one-quarter, and to do this in a spiral, three-quarters must be within the spiral and one-quarter outside for radiating; hence, a square wire or other means, such as a spiral within a spiral, must be used.
Man uses his right hand more often than his left, and consequently his various instruments and equipment (staircases, locks, watch springs, etc.) are designed to be used in a right-to-left manner. Now then, nature has generally obeyed this law in coiling her shells. They're right-handed with only rare exceptions, and when by chance a shell's spiral is left-handed, collectors will pay its weight in gold for it.