spool

English

Spools

Pronunciation

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• Rhymes: -uːl
• Rhymes: -ʊəl

Etymology 1

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Spools of thread.

Noun

spool (plural spools)

1. A device around which thread, wire or cable is wound, especially a cylinder or spindle.
2. (computing) A temporary storage area for electronic mail, etc.

Translations

spindle

• Afrikaans: spoel (af)
• Albanian: shtjellë (sq) f
• Arabic: بكرة (ar) (bakara) f

  Egyptian Arabic: بكرة (bakara) f

• Armenian: կոճ (hy) (koč̣)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 卷筒 (cmn) (juǎntǒng)

• Czech: naviják (cs) f
• Dutch: bobijn (nl) f, spoel (nl) f
• Esperanto: bobeno (eo)
• Finnish: hylsy (fi), rulla (fi), puola (fi)
• French: bobine (fr) f
• German: Spule (de) f
• Hungarian: tekercs (hu)

• Icelandic: spóla (is) f, kefli (is) n
• Indonesian: kumparan (id)
• Italian: bobina (it) f
• Japanese: スプール (ja) (supūru)
• Malay: kekili (ms)
• Polish: szpula (pl), szpulka (pl) f
• Portuguese: carretel (pt) m, bobina (pt)
• Russian: катушка (ru) (katúška) f, шпулька (ru) (špúlʹka) f, бобина (ru) (bobína) f
• Spanish: carrete (es) m
• Tagalog: ulak (tl), mag-ikid (tl)
• Turkish: makara (tr)
• Ukrainian: намотувати (uk) (namotuvaty) f
• Uzbek: g'altak (uz), naycha (uz)

Verb

spool (third-person singular simple present spools, present participle spooling, simple past and past participle spooled)

1. To wind on a spool or spools.
2. (computing) To send files to a device or a program (a spooler or a daemon that puts them in a queue for processing at a later time).

Translations

to send files to some device or program that puts them in a queue for later processing of some kind

• Icelandic: biðfæra (is)

Etymology 2

From spa and pool

Noun

spool (plural spools)

1. A small swimming pool that can be used also as a spa.

Anagrams

• loops
• polos
• pools
• sloop