What's the difference between ceil and coil?

Ceil


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To overlay or cover the inner side of the roof of; to furnish with a ceiling; as, to ceil a room.
  • (v. t.) To line or finish a surface, as of a wall, with plaster, stucco, thin boards, or the like.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It was an artwork that fired the imaginations of 2 million visitors who played with, were provoked by and plunged themselves into the curious atmosphere of The Weather Project , with its swirling mist and gigantic mirrors that covered the hall's ceiling.
  • (2) However in a repeat of the current standoff over the federal budget, the conservative wing of the Republican party is threatening to exploit its leverage over raising the debt ceiling to unpick Obama's healthcare reforms.
  • (3) His office - with a floor-to-ceiling glass wall offering views over a Bradford suburb and distant moors - is devoid of knick-knacks or memorabilia.
  • (4) Among the non-standard postures examined were: twisting while lifting or lowering, lifting and lowering from lying, sitting, kneeling, and squatting positions, and carrying loads under conditions of constricted ceiling heights.
  • (5) "We have been clear there is flexibility in this offer within the cost ceiling.
  • (6) Moody's said on Wednesday night that there was a greater risk that the US government would not agree to increase its debt ceiling above the legal limit of $14.3 trillion (£8.86tn), hit in May .
  • (7) "If there are no systemic changes to our debt, to our entitlement programs, then I would vote no on raising the debt ceiling."
  • (8) The effects of some modern high ceiling loop diuretics on the guinea-pig's inner ear are tested.
  • (9) Nineteen healthy young women with moderate hypothermia after abdominal surgery were studied for 2 h postoperatively with or without external heating from a heating ceiling.
  • (10) With so many different measures of EU spending, a freeze or cut in one of the ceilings being set this week may not translate into a freeze or cut in the actual amount of money spent.
  • (11) In the meditation hall, daddy longlegs dropped from the ceiling, feeding my anxiety.
  • (12) Steps wind down a rugged rock face to a bedroom, while light floods in from round skylights in the domed ceiling above.
  • (13) For example, in May 2012 , Hockey said, “Australians are right to be concerned about handing Wayne Swan yet another increase in our nation’s credit card limit.” He then went on Alan Jones to argue that the government could not make claims that it was making savings if it was also increasing the debt ceiling from $250bn to $300bn.
  • (14) And when S&P downgraded the US long-term credit rating from AAA to AA+, it was doing so for some sound reasons – because of the appalling immaturity of the Republican Tea Partiers in their negotiations over the debt ceiling.
  • (15) If you squat in the corner of a big cube ( a cubical room, say), you can see at least a floor, a ceiling and three walls.
  • (16) From Bantry Bay to Bucharest, European ceilings today bear witness to a mass hanging signifying the end of the incandescent bulb.
  • (17) Updated at 11.27am BST 11.18am BST Another reminder that the debt ceiling is looming: James Pethokoukis (@JimPethokoukis) Washington fell off the government shutdown cliff ... and there is not another cliff to break its fall until Oct. 17 - Wash. Research Group October 1, 2013 11.16am BST How much will the shutdown cost?
  • (18) I know we have still not shattered that highest and hardest glass ceiling, but I know someday someone will and hopefully sooner than we might think right now,” she added.
  • (19) When it comes to the debt ceiling... it is absolutely his view that demands for aransom of any kind, any kind of extraction of a concession ... are unacceptable.
  • (20) David Cameron spoke of the "thickness" of the glass ceiling she smashed through, again as if other women had been clambering merrily through the gaping governmental hole she had thoughtfully crafted ever since.

Coil


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To wind cylindrically or spirally; as, to coil a rope when not in use; the snake coiled itself before springing.
  • (v. t.) To encircle and hold with, or as with, coils.
  • (v. i.) To wind itself cylindrically or spirally; to form a coil; to wind; -- often with about or around.
  • (n.) A ring, series of rings, or spiral, into which a rope, or other like thing, is wound.
  • (n.) Fig.: Entanglement; toil; mesh; perplexity.
  • (n.) A series of connected pipes in rows or layers, as in a steam heating apparatus.
  • (n.) A noise, tumult, bustle, or confusion.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The building block of cytokeratin IFs is a heterotypic tetramer, consisting of two type I and two type II polypeptides arranged in pairs of laterally aligned coiled coils.
  • (2) Right hepatic artery embolization with three coils was performed.
  • (3) The potential use of ancrod, a purified isolate from the venom of the Malaysian pit viper, Agkistrodon rhodostoma, in decreasing the frequency of cyclic flow variations in severely stenosed canine coronary arteries and causing thrombolysis of an acute coronary thrombus induced by a copper coil was evaluated.
  • (4) Chloride caused a significant concentration-dependent shortening of myosin rods due to destabilization of the alpha-helical double coiled rod structure.
  • (5) The tinsel coiled around a jug of squash and bauble in the strip lighting made a golf-ball size knot of guilt burn in my throat.
  • (6) The "random coil" conformational problem is examined by comparison of vibrational CD (VCD) spectra of various polypeptide model systems with that of proline oligomers [(Pro)n] and poly(L-proline).
  • (7) Carcinogen-modified oligodeoxynucleotides were single-stranded, but there were often considerable stacking interactions between the pyrenyl residues and the oligonucleotide bases, indicating that electrophoresed oligomers were single-stranded but in a native, versus random coil, conformation.
  • (8) We measured the magnetic fields produced by several different coils and compared the results with theoretical calculations.
  • (9) The predicted protein shares significant homology with lamins A and C and other members of the intermediate filament family of proteins, and shares features important for the coiled-coil structure proposed for these proteins.
  • (10) These design methods are suited for constructing the most efficient gradient coil that meets a specified homogeneity requirement.
  • (11) Echocardiograms showed good left ventricular function and a large coil of apparent thrombus in the right atrium prolapsing into the right ventricle.
  • (12) In some cases, an intracytoplasmic coiling of the tail or tails could be observed.
  • (13) We studied effects of this anomaly on ocular motility using electro-oculography and the magnetic search-coil technique.
  • (14) The force of the inflow is considerable and can alter the shape of coils and displace both coils and balloons positioned within the aneurysm.
  • (15) The results are not consistent with a straight chain of nucleosomes and require the presence of a higher order coiling in monovalent salt solutions.
  • (16) Closely coupled receiver coils can provide a useful improvement in MR image quality.
  • (17) We report our clinical experience with nearly 100 patients in the first year in the special surface-coil approach of orbit and knee joint.
  • (18) van't Hoff plots of the thermal denaturation data gave enthalpies for the helix-coil transition of 21,600 cal (ca.
  • (19) Technical considerations for the magnetic resonance imaging of the foot and ankle are discussed, including the selection of the appropriate surface coil, the importance of stabilizing the anatomic region, and the principles guiding the choice of pulse sequences.
  • (20) Complete atrophy of variable lengths of the terminal basal coil cells was also found in all elderly cochleas.

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