spool
pronunciation
How to pronounce spool in British English:
UK [spu:l]
How to pronounce spool in American English:
US [spul]
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- Noun:
- a winder around which thread or tape or film or other flexible materials can be wound
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- Verb:
- transfer data intended for a peripheral device (usually a printer) into temporary storage
- wind onto a spool or a reel
Word Origin
- spool (n.)
- early 14c., "wheel for winding thread upon," from Old North French spole, espole "a spool" (13c.), from Middle Dutch spoele "a spool," from Proto-Germanic *spolon (cognates: Norwegian and Swedish spole, Old High German spuola, German Spule "a spool, bobbin"), from PIE root *spel- "to cleave, split" (see spoil (v.)).
- spool (v.)
- c. 1600, from spool (n.). Related: Spooled; spooling; spooler (1550s).
Example
- 1. Every spool must have a label with .
- 2. Histones organize the dna and keep it from getting tangled , much like thread wrapped around a spool .
- 3. A common feature of these three spool is a holistic , integrated throughout the mandrel , easy installation and maintenance , replacement .
- 4. More of a luxury than a necessity for american global power , however , the initiative for nato attack came from france and britain , re-running as if in a time-warp the spool of the suez expedition .
- 5. Don 't spool to enhanced meta files .