Adrienne C. Moore

I remember going through that process of growing my hair out, straightening it, cutting off the relaxed hair. I finally got to a point where I went to the Dominicans because they can straighten it real good. By the end of the day, the part of my hair that had just been pressed straight was already starting to coil back up.

American Actress

Nikola Tesla

We wind a simple ring of iron with coils; we establish the connections to the generator, and with wonder and delight we note the effects of strange forces which we bring into play, which allow us to transform, to transmit and direct energy at will.

Inventor

David Johansen

Sometimes I've found that by getting into a certain drag, or a certain feeling, you can cast off your mortal coil and really do something. I don't know if it's important, but it's something. It's entertainment.

American Musician

Douglas Rushkoff

Your next SMS will probably be around longer, and remain more legible, than your tombstone. For, unlike your tombstone or even your mortal coil, your texts may be worth something.

American Journalist

Paul Weller

I want to hear as much music as I possibly can before I leave this mortal coil but it's impossible to hear it all because there's so much of it.

English Musician

George Packer

No-one can say when the unwinding began, when the coil that held America together in its secure and sometime shifting grip first gave way.

American Novelist

Uri Geller

I was sued by a woman who claimed that she became pregnant because she watched me on television and I bent her contraceptive coil.

Israeli Entertainer

Kary Mullis

Natural DNA is a tractless coil, like an unwound and tangled audiotape on the floor of the car in the dark.

American Scientist

Ellen Wilkinson

But my eyes were riveted on a small slim woman her hair simply coiled into her neck, Katherine Glasier.

English Politician

Teri Garr

They drilled a hole in my head and wrapped a coil around my brain so it wouldn't bleed anymore.

Used to describe physical items that can be literally wound or looped.

Physical Objects

Refers to something you can touch, not a concept or idea.

Often Tangible

Involves movement to form the coil, typically winding or spiraling.

Creating Coils

Suggests a methodical, neat arrangement, not just a heap.

Implying Order

In a medical context, specifically relates to birth control.

Medical Device

Not commonly known outside medical discussions.

Specialized Use

Used in technical contexts, often related to electricity and magnetism.

Electronics Component

Learners may encounter it in professional or academic settings.

Technical Term

 and that's softly moving that air current through the room. Very advanced, no air-conditioning -- I love it. In the canal, which is just outside the restaurant, there is hundreds of meters of coil piping. This takes the temperature of the canal and turns it into this four-degrees of heat exchange.

Arthur Potts Dawson: A...

 to snail species whose shells' always coil in the same direction. Some species of beans only climb up their trellises clockwise, others, only counterclockwise, and even though the human body looks pretty symmetrical on the outside, it's a different story on the inside.

Why are human bodies...

 and that's really really important because it enables the cheetah to maximize the stride length keep by bunching and coiling that a spine alone it's able to expand this incredible stride rate which you see look at his back watch the back it's down now watch when

The Science of a...

 layer of skin that protects you the cells are patterned like a nice cobblestone road okay they're all the same shape and size and they're regularly spaced whereas in the egg crime gland that provides sweat the cells are shaped in this kind of coiling

Shifting the visual...

 or causing the DNA to coil more tightly, making it inaccessible. The gene is still there, but it's silent. Boosting transcription is essentially the opposite. Some chemical tags will unwind the DNA, making it easier to transcribe,

What is epigenetics? -...

 Answer in 1 The most important thing to remember here is that even if we know that one thing causes another, the converse is not necessarily true. For example, this panic switch shuts off the coil runner’s engine.

Can you solve the death...

 The jellyfish's sting, which helps it capture prey and defend itself, is its most infamous calling card. In the jelly's epidermis, cells called nematocysts lie coiled like poisonous harpoons.

Jellyfish predate...

 let's give it a go all right no now I'm slightly relieved my date is still intact but in the interest of science I'm gonna give the magnet a bit of a boost by wrapping a coil of wire around

Can Magnets Scramble...

 once an insect becomes stuck nearby glandular hairs coil around and smother their prey the plant then releases enzymes which aid the slow digestion of its victim

These Sticky Traps Are...

 once locked onto a scent the ambush hunter settles into place and waits hanging motionless coiled in a characteristic S shape ready to pounce

Coil

Physical Objects

Often Tangible

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