reelnoun [ C ]
uk/rɪəl/us/rɪəl/reel noun [ C ] (HOLDER)
a round, wheel-shaped object on which sewing thread, fishing wire, film, etc. can be rolled, or the amount of thread, etc. stored on one of these
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Cinema - general words
- 12A
- animation
- animator
- best boy
- Bollywood
- boom
- CGI
- filming
- filmstrip
- footage
- freeze-frame
- gaffer
- pan
- shoot
- showing
- slide projector
- slow motion
- soundtrack
- storyboard
- the big screen 1
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reel noun [ C ] (DANCE)
a fast Scottish or Irish dance, or the music for this
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Musical pieces
- arrangement
- bolero
- bossa nova
- Britannia
- cantata
- chorus
- fantasia
- melody
- nocturne
- octet
- opus
- passage
- playlist
- sextet
- signature tune
- solo
- song form
- string quartet
- trio
- tune
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reelverb [ I ]
uk/rɪəl/us/rɪəl/to walk, moving from side to side, looking like you are going to fall:
If the place where you are reels, what you are looking at seems to go round and round in front of you:
If you reel, or your mind or brain reels, you feel very confused or shocked and unable to act:
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Moving unsteadily or with difficulty
- blunder
- bumble
- doddery
- falter
- galumphing
- limp
- lollop
- lumber
- lurch
- schlep
- shamble
- shuffle
- squeeze
- stumble
- toddle
- toil
- totter
- trip (sb) up
- tumble
- waddle
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