[
US
/ˈspuɫ/
]
[ UK /spˈuːl/ ]
[ UK /spˈuːl/ ]
VERB
- wind onto a spool or a reel
- transfer data intended for a peripheral device (usually a printer) into temporary storage
NOUN
- a winder around which thread or tape or film or other flexible materials can be wound
How To Use spool In A Sentence
- The expatriate's urban cityscape is assembled from large spools of colored thread, empty liquor bottles, and toy cars.
- It began as a bulky analogue box running spools of tape.
- Berry, a spool of cotton for Mrs. Wentworth, and a pair of "galluses" for Living Bean. The Village Watch-Tower
- FLATOW: So you just, basically, unspool it, like you were running a trans-Atlantic cable? Carrying Wind Power, Underwater
- To assemble it, you put the pencil stub into the hole of the spool and stuck the pin straight up in the middle of the eraser.
- The print spooler security bulletin is one of nine issued in Microsoft's monthly Patch Tuesday, and one of four rated as critical. Microsoft patches Windows XP flaw that aided Stuxnet worm
- Connel placed the spool of tape in the audiograph and settled in a chair to listen. Danger in Deep Space
- Ye see we march on the tap o Touthop-rigg after we pass the Pomoragrains; for the Pomoragrains, and Slackenspool, and Bloodylaws, they come in there, and they belang to the Peel; but after ye pass Pomoragrains at a muckle great saucer-headed cutlugged stane, that they ca Charlies Chuckie, there Dawston Cleugh and Charlies-hope they march. Chapter XXXVI
- Pressing a button on the rear of the fishing reel disengages the line pickup thus allowing the line to fly off of the spool.
- Reserves are cesspools of corruption and all band councils are poorly managed and unaccountable.