spool (redirected from spools)

spool ¹  (spl)

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

To wind or be wound on or off a spool.

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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).]

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spool ²  (spl)

tr.v. spooled, spool·ing, spools

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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[s(imultaneous) p(eripheral) o(perations) o(n) l(ine).]

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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

[of Germanic origin; compare Old High German spuolo, Middle Dutch spoele]

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spool  (spl)

To store data that is sent to a device, such as a printer, in a buffer that the device reads. This procedure allows the program that sent the data to the device to resume its normal operation without waiting for the device to process the data.

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	spool - a winder around which thread or tape or film or other flexible materials can be wound bobbin, reel filature - 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"

Translations

spool [spuːl] N (Phot) (for thread) → carrete m; (for film etc) → bobina f; (on fishing line) → cucharilla f; (on sewing machine) → canilla f

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spool [ˈspuːl] n → bobine f

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spool

n (Phot, on sewing machine) → Spule f; (on fishing line) → Rolle f; (for thread) → (Garn)rolle f; (of thread) → Rolle f

vt (Comput) file → spulen; to spool a print job → einen Druckauftrag in die Warteschlange stellen

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spool [spuːl] n (Phot) (on sewing machine, on fishing line) → bobina; (spool of thread) → rocchetto di filo

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spool [spuːl] n (Phot) (on sewing machine, on fishing line) → bobina; (spool of thread) → rocchetto di filo

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spool

n spool [spuːl]

1 a type of cylindrical holder How can I wind this film back on to its spool? spoel بَكَرَه ролка cívka trisse; spole die Spule καρούλι, μπομπίνα carrete rull, pool قرقره؛ حلقه rulla, puola bobine גָלִיל फिरकी špula, kalem orsó gulungan spóla, kefli bobina 糸巻き 감는 틀 ritė spole; rullītis; kasete gulungan spoel spole szpula bobina bobină катушка, бобина cievka tuljava kalem spole, rulle แกนม้วนสาย makara, bobin 卷軸 шпулька, котушка فیتے وغیرہ کو لپیٹنے کی پھرکی ống chỉ 卷轴

2 the amount of thread, film etc held by such a holder She used three spools of thread in one week. tolletjie مِكَب خيطان макара cívka trisse; spole die Spule καρούλι, μασούρι carrete rull(itäis), pool(itäis) قرقره؛ حلقه rulla bobine סְלִיל चर्खी के धागे की मात्रा količina onoga što je namotano na kalem orsó, tekercs gulung spóla bobina １巻き 틀에 감긴 량 ritė spole; kasete gulung spoel rull szpulka bobina bobină катушка cievka motek kalem spole, rulle หลอดด้าย; ม้วนฟิล์ม makara, bobin 線軸，(膠捲等)捲軸 шпулька, котушка پھرکی پر آنے والی فیتے کی مقدار số lượng chỉ cuộn nơi một ống chỉ 线轴，（胶卷等）卷轴