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spool

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++朗文当代英语 5++LDOCE 5++朗文 5++
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spool /spuːl/ noun [countable]  spool.jpg DTan object shaped like a wheel that you wind thread, wire etc around 〔线、电线等的〕卷轴;线轴
Examples from the Corpus
spoolI was representing a young boy who had been injured playing in the railroad yards on a large cable spool.Kirov stripped the tape from its spool and carefully incinerated it.That spool has a limited but steady sale to academics - a tribute to all the knowledge you had packed away.There she was, limp and pale in front of the spools of ribbon in the Emporium.Quinn was rewinding the spool for another attempt when Auster and his wife entered the room.Mr Chen was delighted: he snapped pictures while the spools of the tape recorder turned slowly.The spool is of ideal size, large enough to aid trotting and casting without being over sized.Nestling between the two spools was a tiny plastic packet, smaller than a thumbnail.
Origin spool (1300-1400) Old French espole, from Middle Dutch spoele
spool nounChinese
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spool
spool /spuːl/ noun [countable]
 Date: 1300-1400
 Language: Old French
 Origin: espole, from Middle Dutch spoele

an object shaped like a wheel that you wind thread, wire etc around


spoolBrE /spuːl/ 🔊NAmE /spuːl/ 🔊 noun
(especially NAmE) = reel (1) a spool of thread一轴线
spoolBrE /spuːl/ 🔊NAmE /spuːl/ 🔊 verbpresent simple - I / you / we / they spool BrE /spuːl/ 🔊 NAmE /spuːl/ 🔊present simple - he / she / it spools BrE /spuːlz/ 🔊 NAmE /spuːlz/ 🔊past simple spooled BrE /spuːld/ 🔊 NAmE /spuːld/ 🔊past participle spooled BrE /spuːld/ 🔊 NAmE /spuːld/ 🔊 -ing form spooling BrE /ˈspuːlɪŋ/ 🔊 NAmE /ˈspuːlɪŋ/ 🔊 [transitive] ~ sth + adv./prep. to wind sth onto or off a spool 把…绕到线轴上(或从线轴上绕下来) [transitive, intransitive] ~ (sth) (computing 计算机) to move data and store it for a short time, for example on a disk, especially before it is printed 假脱机(尤指打印前出现的操作情况)