COILED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does coiled mean? 

• COILED (adjective)
  The adjective COILED has 1 sense:

1. curled or wound (especially in concentric rings or spirals)

  Familiarity information: COILED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• COILED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Curled or wound (especially in concentric rings or spirals)

Context example:

the rope lay coiled on the deck

Similar:

coiling; helical; spiral; spiraling; turbinate; volute; voluted; whorled (in the shape of a coil)

convolute; convoluted (rolled longitudinally upon itself)

involute ((of some shells) closely coiled so that the axis is obscured)

involute; rolled (especially of petals or leaves in bud; having margins rolled inward)

wound (put in a coil)

Antonym:

uncoiled (no longer coiled)

 Context examples 

An unbranched, coiled, tubular gland not associated with the hair follicle that promotes cooling by evaporation of its secretion.

(Eccrine Sweat Gland, NCI Thesaurus)

The strip he coiled carefully, till it disappeared in his hand.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

These glands produce sweat that reaches the surface of the skin by way of coiled ducts (tubes).

(Eccrine gland, NCI Dictionary)

His old dog, Pilot, lay on one side, removed out of the way, and coiled up as if afraid of being inadvertently trodden upon.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

A type of large, coiled, tubular, sometimes branched, specialized sweat gland that empties into the upper portion of a hair follicle instead of directly onto the skin surface.

(Apocrine Sweat Gland, NCI Thesaurus)

Topoisomerase I relaxes negative super-coiled DNA during replication and transcription.

(Camptothecin Analogue TLC388, NCI Thesaurus)

Maud held the turn on the windlass and coiled down while I heaved.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

But he had yet to learn the remarkable quickness of White Fang, who struck with the certainty and swiftness of a coiled snake.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Activated RhoGTP binds to downstream kinases such as Rho-associated coiled coil-containing protein kinase (p160ROCK) and p140 diaphanous (p140Dia) to increase actin polymerization and contraction.

(Extracellular Matrix Binding Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

I found myself mechanically bowing and shaking hands with a little ginger-haired man who was coiled up in the deep arm-chair which had once been sacred to my own use.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)