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spool
(spo͞ol)n.
1.
a. A cylinder of wood, plastic, cardboard, or other material on which wire, thread, or string is wound.
b. The amount of wire, thread, or string wound on such a cylinder.
c. Something similar to such a cylinder in shape or function.
2. A reel for magnetic tape.
tr. & intr.v. spooled, spool·ing, spools
1. To wind or be wound on or off a spool.
2. To store (data sent to a printer) in a buffer, allowing the program that sent the data to the printer to resume its normal operation.
[Middle English spole, from Old North French espole and from Middle Dutch and Middle Low German spoele (Old North French, from Middle Dutch).]
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spool
(spuːl)n
1. (Electronics) a device around which magnetic tape, film, cotton, etc, can be automatically wound, with plates at top and bottom to prevent it from slipping off
2. anything round which other materials, esp thread, are wound
vb
(sometimes foll by up) to wind or be wound onto a spool or reel
[C14: of Germanic origin; compare Old High German spuolo, Middle Dutch spoele]
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spool
(spul)n.
1. a cylindrical object or device on which something is wound, typically having a rim at each end and a hole for a spindle running lengthwise through the center.
2. the material or quantity of material wound on such a device.
3. a bobbin or reel.
4. the cylindrical drum in a fishing reel that bears the line.
v.t. 5. to wind on a spool.
6. to unwind from a spool (usu. fol. by off or out).
v.i. 7. to wind.
8. to unwind.
[1275–1325; Middle English spole < Middle Dutch spoele or Middle Low German spōle]
spool′er, n.
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spool
Past participle: spooled
Gerund: spooling
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| Noun | 1. |  spool - a winder around which thread or tape or film or other flexible materials can be woundfilature - a bobbin used in spinning silk into thread shuttle - bobbin that passes the weft thread between the warp threads winder - mechanical device around which something can be wound |
| Verb | 1. | spool - transfer data intended for a peripheral device (usually a printer) into temporary storage computer science, computing - the branch of engineering science that studies (with the aid of computers) computable processes and structures transfer - move from one place to another; "transfer the data"; "transmit the news"; "transfer the patient to another hospital" |
| 2. | spool - wind onto a spool or a reel twine, wrap, wind, roll - arrange or or coil around; "roll your hair around your finger"; "Twine the thread around the spool"; "She wrapped her arms around the child" cheese - wind onto a cheese; "cheese the yarn" |
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Translations
بَكَرَهمِكَب خيطان
cívka
spoletrisse
spólaspóla, kefli
kaseterullītisspole
bobijn
motek
bobinmakara
spool
[spuːl] N (Phot) (for thread) → carrete m; (for film etc) → bobina f; (on fishing line) → cucharilla f; (on sewing machine) → canilla fCollins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005
Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005
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Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007
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[spuːl] n (Phot) (on sewing machine, on fishing line) → bobina; (spool of thread) → rocchetto di filoCollins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995
spool
(spuːl) noun1. a type of cylindrical holder. How can I wind this film back on to its spool?
2. the amount of thread, film etc held by such a holder. She used three spools of thread in one week.
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