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单词 spool
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spool

(spuːl)
Word forms: plural spools
countable noun
A spool is a round object onto which thread, tape, or film can be wound, especially before it is put into a machine.

spool in British English

(spuːl)
noun
1. 
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
verb
3. (sometimes foll by up)
to wind or be wound onto a spool or reel
Word origin
C14: of Germanic origin; compare Old High German spuolo, Middle Dutch spoele

spool in American English

(spul)
noun
1. 
a cylinder or roller, usually with a hole for a spindle from end to end and a rim at either end, upon which thread, wire, etc. is wound
2. 
something like a spool, as a bobbin, reel, etc.
3. 
the material wound on a spool
verb transitive
4. 
to wind on a spool
Word origin
ME spole < MFr espole < MDu spoele, akin to Ger spule < IE base *(s)p(h)el-, to split, split off > spall, spill1, spoil

Examples of 'spool' in a sentence
spool

Steve had been quicker than she; his foot had shot out and covered the spool.
Butler, Gwendoline COFFIN IN FASHION (2002)
Allow me to spool back fourteen years, or thereabouts: October time.
Alex George LOVE YOU MADLY (2002)
Joe took back the spool of thin line and exchanged it for a much thicker line wound around a wooden frame.
Wright, Eric A BODY SURROUNDED BY WATER (2002)
The film was run from one spool to another over a flat glass plate under which was a pair of fluorescent lights.
Clancy, Tom WITHOUT REMORSE (2002)

In other languages
spool

British English: spool NOUN
A spool is a round object onto which thread, tape, or film can be wound, especially before it is put into a machine.
...a spool of thread.
  • American English: spool
  • Brazilian Portuguese: rolo
  • Chinese: > 卷轴线、磁带或胶卷的
  • European Spanish: canilla
  • French: bobine
  • German: Spule
  • Italian: bobina
  • Japanese: 糸巻き
  • Korean: > 얼레실 등을 감는
  • European Portuguese: rolo
  • Latin American Spanish: canilla
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