spool

spool

S0661000 (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.

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[Middle English spole, from Old North French espole and from Middle Dutch and Middle Low German spoele (Old North French, from Middle Dutch).]

spool

(spuːl) n1. (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 off2. anything round which other materials, esp thread, are woundvb (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]

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.

spool

Past participle: spooled
Gerund: spooling

Imperative
spool
spool

Present
I spool
you spool
he/she/it spools
we spool
you spool
they spool

Preterite
I spooled
you spooled
he/she/it spooled
we spooled
you spooled
they spooled

Present Continuous
I am spooling
you are spooling
he/she/it is spooling
we are spooling
you are spooling
they are spooling

Present Perfect
I have spooled
you have spooled
he/she/it has spooled
we have spooled
you have spooled
they have spooled

Past Continuous
I was spooling
you were spooling
he/she/it was spooling
we were spooling
you were spooling
they were spooling

Past Perfect
I had spooled
you had spooled
he/she/it had spooled
we had spooled
you had spooled
they had spooled

Future
I will spool
you will spool
he/she/it will spool
we will spool
you will spool
they will spool

Future Perfect
I will have spooled
you will have spooled
he/she/it will have spooled
we will have spooled
you will have spooled
they will have spooled

Future Continuous
I will be spooling
you will be spooling
he/she/it will be spooling
we will be spooling
you will be spooling
they will be spooling

Present Perfect Continuous
I have been spooling
you have been spooling
he/she/it has been spooling
we have been spooling
you have been spooling
they have been spooling

Future Perfect Continuous
I will have been spooling
you will have been spooling
he/she/it will have been spooling
we will have been spooling
you will have been spooling
they will have been spooling

Past Perfect Continuous
I had been spooling
you had been spooling
he/she/it had been spooling
we had been spooling
you had been spooling
they had been spooling

Conditional
I would spool
you would spool
he/she/it would spool
we would spool
you would spool
they would spool

Past Conditional
I would have spooled
you would have spooled
he/she/it would have spooled
we would have spooled
you would have spooled
they would have spooled

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	spool - a winder around which thread or tape or film or other flexible materials can be woundbobbin, reelfilature - a bobbin used in spinning silk into threadshuttle - bobbin that passes the weft thread between the warp threadswinder - mechanical device around which something can be wound
Verb	1.	spool - transfer data intended for a peripheral device (usually a printer) into temporary storagecomputer science, computing - the branch of engineering science that studies (with the aid of computers) computable processes and structurestransfer - 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 reeltwine, 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"

Translations

卷轴线轴

spool

(spuːl) noun1. a type of cylindrical holder. How can I wind this film back on to its spool? 卷軸 卷轴2. the amount of thread, film etc held by such a holder. She used three spools of thread in one week. 線軸，(膠捲等)捲軸 线轴，（胶卷等）卷轴