becket

noun

Definition of becketnext
as in coil

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  1. coil
  2. hank
  3. spiral
  4. spire
  5. curl
  6. whorl
Noun
  • The spheres swing, tapping against the metal and coils.
    Michelle F. Solomon, Miami Herald, 14 Jan. 2025
  • Pavlovich remembers her palms sweating, hot coils in her stomach.
    Lila Shapiro, Vulture, 13 Jan. 2025
Definition of coil
Noun
  • There was no one else on the strand, the surf a sickly yellow foam bubbling between the matted black hanks of seaweed heaped on the beach.
    Matthew Gavin Frank, Harper's Magazine, 21 Apr. 2022
  • In one of its spreads, a burst of light on muddy asphalt abuts a jumble of walls and fences, rain pounding a limousine, and a spatter of paint with a hank of rope.
    Leo Rubinfien, The New York Review of Books, 11 Feb. 2021
Definition of hank
Noun
  • The loss was Day’s first to an unranked opponent and fourth in a row to the rival Wolverines, sending the Ohio State fan base into a spiral.
    Cameron Teague Robinson, The Athletic, 17 Jan. 2025
  • And then all of the guest hosting and all of those elements, the staff was in something of a spiral.
    Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 7 Jan. 2025
Definition of spiral
Noun
  • While not a Derby-specific collectible per se, a coin for LMPD’s 4th Division — which operates in the area surrounding Churchill Downs — features an image of a horse race beneath the track’s twin spires on its front.
    Josh Wood, The Courier-Journal, 27 Dec. 2024
  • The cathedral endured a devastating fire in spring 2019 that resulted in the collapse of its spire and wooden latticework of its roof.
    Tara Suter, The Hill, 23 Dec. 2024
Definition of spire
Noun
  • Google Images shows a young man with a head of enviable black curls (unlike the head of fifty-one-year-old Thadeus Wong).
    Han Ong, The New Yorker, 12 Jan. 2025
  • The chainmail dress was paired with Lorraine Schwartz jewels, while the star’s brunette hair was styled in loose curls.
    Gabrielle Rockson, People.com, 7 Jan. 2025
Definition of curl
Noun
  • Thus Andy Dixon paints Day-Glo takes on Rococo romances, with sculptural nudes draped in loose tunics cavorting around pleasure gardens dotted with classical statuary; these same motifs are distilled into dainty arabesques and diaphanous whorls in the abstract canvases of Michaela Yearwood-Dan.
    Rachel Wetzler, Artforum, 1 Dec. 2024
  • This technique would be similar to how forensic scientists match fingerprints today, by comparing just a few points of interest rather than the entire whorl.
    Adam Czajka, IEEE Spectrum, 29 Aug. 2019
Definition of whorl
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