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Definition of spool in English: spoolnoun spuːlspul 1A cylindrical device on which film, magnetic tape, thread, or other flexible materials can be wound; a reel. spools of electrical cable Example sentencesExamples - Startlingly, her creative materials include marker caps, spools of thread, tacks, stickers, and pipe cleaners.
- The expatriate's urban cityscape is assembled from large spools of colored thread, empty liquor bottles, and toy cars.
- Some of the visual referencing could come from the regular pops and scrapes in the vinyl, which are reminiscent of the sound of a spool of film being fed into a projector.
- It began as a bulky analogue box running spools of tape.
- If they were found with copies of the video in their newsgroup spool then they could be liable for prosecution.
- In many cases, the data just sits there, unexamined, on spools of magnetic tape.
- One glance at a photo of a scraggly-bearded Wilson, clad only in underwear and spools of magnetic tape, and the disinterest shown by station managers becomes quite understandable.
- In several sculptures, painted yarn and spools of thread are made ambiguously tactile by offering hard surfaces on objects one knows to be soft.
- In A Midsummer Night's Dream, he takes his name from the term for an empty reel or spool used in weaving, though it obviously has additional comic implications.
- Cool as those bloody moments are, they fail to provide any depth or continuing sense of upset once the film spool has wound away.
- He has created exact and intimate renditions of domestic items such as a bottle-opener, a pen and refill, a box of matches, a needle and a spool of thread out of wax.
- And I listened to the old tape with the scrawled track listing and the spools that squeaked when you turned them, and became a fan forever.
- The little dab of opaque glue that attached the other end of the film to its spool yielded a second white form at the lower right.
- As it turns, the moulin draws the warp threads from another device that holds a row of spools, the separate threads coming together into a single skein as they are wound onto the frame.
- The LP record became a spool of tape; the spool became a cassette; the cassette became a CD; the CD became MP3.
- In a circular metal container is a spool of audiotape that records the sound of snow falling.
- In addition, the company offers a new 3,500-yard king spool in its 304 rayon thread, with 35 shades available.
- On top stood a tiny covered, glass candy dish, which held a ‘bonbon’ made from stacked spools of thread.
Synonyms recording, cassette, tape recording - 1.1 A cylindrical device attached to a fishing rod and used for winding and unwinding the line as required.
Example sentencesExamples - They're basically spools of line hung on the wall with bells attached.
- 1.2as modifier Denoting furniture of a style popular in England in the 17th century and North America in the 19th century, typically ornamented with a series of small knobs resembling spools.
verb spuːlspul 1with object and adverbial Wind (magnetic tape, thread, etc.) on to a spool. he was trying to spool his tapes back into the cassettes with a pencil eraser Example sentencesExamples - Tapes with dual-reel cartridges eliminate the need for spooling the tape into the drive and cut the time to access data dramatically.
- 1.1no object, with adverbial Be wound on or off a spool.
the plastic reel allows the line to run free as it spools out Example sentencesExamples - Like a movie reel spooling back on itself the Irish piled back into their wagon, and with a newly elected driver turned her round and trudged back up the slope and out of the valley.
- Concentrating, he could hear the tape spooling.
- He looked from his subject to the plastic window of the cassette recorder where the tape spooled.
2Computing
with object Send (data that is intended for printing or processing on a peripheral device) to an intermediate store. users can set which folder they wish to spool files to Example sentencesExamples - This keeps heavy print traffic off the network and allows commonly-used forms, fonts and signatures to be stored on the printer, so they don't have to be spooled across the network.
3no object (of an engine) increase its speed of rotation, typically to that required for operation. a jet engine can take up to six seconds to spool up Example sentencesExamples - The engines spooled down, because we had to shut them down in flight, to minimize the counterrotation induced by the torque on the rotor head.
- They love the sound of engines spooling up, the rush of air as the plane goes by.
- Imagine my surprise when both engines spooled down.
- As the engines spooled up, I wiped out the controls and began my habitual sweep of the cockpit, beginning with the hydraulic gauge on my right side.
- As the engines spooled down, I felt the same sensation I had while on the tanker: the pressure increased and my ears hurt.
- The No.1 engine spooled up slower than the other three, which required a small nosewheel-steering input to maintain centerline.
- We continued to roll as both engines spooled down.
- I jammed the throttles up, but the engines barely spooled up before I throttled back per my director's signal.
- The helicopter rattled a bit, the engine spooled back up, and Nr rapidly rose to 100 percent.
- The engine spooled down through 45 percent, and the generator went offline, which tumbled our primary attitude and heading indicators.
- You can probably hear the engines spooling up behind us.
- In a nearly identical re-enactment of the first correction, the aircraft again pitched down to apparently continue the approach with the engines spooling back.
- My first indication would have been the sound of an engine spooling down.
- I heard a change in engine rpm, and, halfway down the stroke, the right engine spooled down past 72 percent.
Origin Middle English (denoting a spool for thread): shortening of Old French espole or from Middle Low German spōle, of West Germanic origin; related to Dutch spoel and German Spule. The verb dates from the early 17th century. Rhymes Banjul, befool, Boole, boule, boules, boulle, cagoule, cool, drool, fool, ghoul, Joule, mewl, misrule, mule, O'Toole, pool, Poole, pul, pule, Raoul, rule, school, shul, sool, Stamboul, stool, Thule, tomfool, tulle, you'll, yule Definition of spool in US English: spoolnounspulspo͞ol 1A cylindrical device on which film, magnetic tape, thread, or other flexible materials can be wound; a reel. spools of electrical cable Example sentencesExamples - In A Midsummer Night's Dream, he takes his name from the term for an empty reel or spool used in weaving, though it obviously has additional comic implications.
- In many cases, the data just sits there, unexamined, on spools of magnetic tape.
- The little dab of opaque glue that attached the other end of the film to its spool yielded a second white form at the lower right.
- If they were found with copies of the video in their newsgroup spool then they could be liable for prosecution.
- The expatriate's urban cityscape is assembled from large spools of colored thread, empty liquor bottles, and toy cars.
- As it turns, the moulin draws the warp threads from another device that holds a row of spools, the separate threads coming together into a single skein as they are wound onto the frame.
- The LP record became a spool of tape; the spool became a cassette; the cassette became a CD; the CD became MP3.
- Startlingly, her creative materials include marker caps, spools of thread, tacks, stickers, and pipe cleaners.
- He has created exact and intimate renditions of domestic items such as a bottle-opener, a pen and refill, a box of matches, a needle and a spool of thread out of wax.
- On top stood a tiny covered, glass candy dish, which held a ‘bonbon’ made from stacked spools of thread.
- Cool as those bloody moments are, they fail to provide any depth or continuing sense of upset once the film spool has wound away.
- In addition, the company offers a new 3,500-yard king spool in its 304 rayon thread, with 35 shades available.
- It began as a bulky analogue box running spools of tape.
- And I listened to the old tape with the scrawled track listing and the spools that squeaked when you turned them, and became a fan forever.
- Some of the visual referencing could come from the regular pops and scrapes in the vinyl, which are reminiscent of the sound of a spool of film being fed into a projector.
- One glance at a photo of a scraggly-bearded Wilson, clad only in underwear and spools of magnetic tape, and the disinterest shown by station managers becomes quite understandable.
- In a circular metal container is a spool of audiotape that records the sound of snow falling.
- In several sculptures, painted yarn and spools of thread are made ambiguously tactile by offering hard surfaces on objects one knows to be soft.
Synonyms recording, cassette, tape recording - 1.1 A cylindrical device attached to a fishing rod and used for winding and unwinding the line as required.
Example sentencesExamples - They're basically spools of line hung on the wall with bells attached.
- 1.2as modifier Denoting furniture of a style popular in England in the 17th century and North America in the 19th century, typically ornamented with a series of small knobs resembling spools.
verbspulspo͞ol 1with object and adverbial Wind (magnetic tape, thread, etc.) on to a spool. he was trying to spool his tapes back into the cassettes with a pencil eraser Example sentencesExamples - Tapes with dual-reel cartridges eliminate the need for spooling the tape into the drive and cut the time to access data dramatically.
- 1.1no object, with adverbial Be wound on or off a spool.
the plastic reel allows the line to run free as it spools out Example sentencesExamples - Like a movie reel spooling back on itself the Irish piled back into their wagon, and with a newly elected driver turned her round and trudged back up the slope and out of the valley.
- He looked from his subject to the plastic window of the cassette recorder where the tape spooled.
- Concentrating, he could hear the tape spooling.
2Computing
with object Send (data that is intended for printing or processing on a peripheral device) to an intermediate store. users can set which folder they wish to spool files to Example sentencesExamples - This keeps heavy print traffic off the network and allows commonly-used forms, fonts and signatures to be stored on the printer, so they don't have to be spooled across the network.
3no object (of an engine) increase its speed of rotation, typically to that required for operation. a jet engine can take up to six seconds to spool up Example sentencesExamples - As the engines spooled down, I felt the same sensation I had while on the tanker: the pressure increased and my ears hurt.
- The No.1 engine spooled up slower than the other three, which required a small nosewheel-steering input to maintain centerline.
- I heard a change in engine rpm, and, halfway down the stroke, the right engine spooled down past 72 percent.
- You can probably hear the engines spooling up behind us.
- As the engines spooled up, I wiped out the controls and began my habitual sweep of the cockpit, beginning with the hydraulic gauge on my right side.
- The engine spooled down through 45 percent, and the generator went offline, which tumbled our primary attitude and heading indicators.
- I jammed the throttles up, but the engines barely spooled up before I throttled back per my director's signal.
- They love the sound of engines spooling up, the rush of air as the plane goes by.
- My first indication would have been the sound of an engine spooling down.
- The engines spooled down, because we had to shut them down in flight, to minimize the counterrotation induced by the torque on the rotor head.
- In a nearly identical re-enactment of the first correction, the aircraft again pitched down to apparently continue the approach with the engines spooling back.
- The helicopter rattled a bit, the engine spooled back up, and Nr rapidly rose to 100 percent.
- We continued to roll as both engines spooled down.
- Imagine my surprise when both engines spooled down.
Origin Middle English (denoting a spool for thread): shortening of Old French espole or from Middle Low German spōle, of West Germanic origin; related to Dutch spoel and German Spule. The verb dates from the early 17th century. |