spool
/spuːl/
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Northern Ireland/spʉl/
spool noun: a reel; a device around which thread, wire or cable is wound, especially a cylinder or spindle.
Noun (1)
spool (plural spools)
- A reel; a device around which thread, wire or cable is wound, especially a cylinder or spindle.
- If you need to reload film, the cassette can be rewound slightly by turning the hub located on one end of its spool.2011, Rebekah Modrak, Bill Anthes, Reframing Photography: Theory and Practice
- One of the rotating assemblies of a gas turbine engine, composed of one or more turbine stages, a shaft, and one or more compressor or fan stages.
- The high-pressure spool rotates faster than the intermediate- and low-pressure spools, as the high-pressure turbine is driven by superheated combustion gases straight out of the burners, while the high-pressure compressor has to spin very fast to compress air that has already been compressed and...
- A temporary storage area for electronic mail, etc.
- A splinter caught in the skin.
Verb
spool (third-person singular simple present spools, present participle spooling, simple past and past participle spooled)
Noun (2)
spool (plural spools)
- A small swimming pool that can be used also as a spa.
spool meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Bengali and Kannada
spool in Hindi
- spindle
- अटेरन aṭeran
spool in Tamil
- கண்டு, நூல் சுற்றிவைக்கும் வட்டு, கண்டி, சக்கரம், நூற்கட்டை, சுருள்
spool in Bengali
- নলি, রিল
spool in Kannada
- ಕಂಡಿಕೆ
More languagesFewer languages
- spool in Tagalog
- ulak, mag-ikid, kidkiran
- spool in Arabic
- بَكَرَة bakara
- spool in Malay
- kekili
- spool in Indonesian
- kumparan
- spool in Thai
- ม้วน múuan, กระสวย grà-sǔai
- spool in Vietnamese
- suốt
- spool in Myanmar
- တညင်းလုံး ta.nyang:lum:, ဘီးလုံး bhi:lum:
Examples of spool in a sentence
- I wound up the spool of rope.
- The large rotational inertia of the heavy compressor and turbine rotors makes the engine slow to spool up from idle.
- The wire was prewound around the spools.
Forms of spool
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | spools |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | spools |
| present participle | spooling |
| past participle | spooled |
| past | spooled |
Origin of spool
From Middle English spole (possibly via Old Northern French spole, espole), from Middle Dutch spoele, from Old Dutch *spōla, *spuola, from Proto-Germanic *spōlǭ (“spool”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)pel- (“to cleave, split”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Spoule (“spool”), Dutch spoel (“spool”), German Spule (“spool”), Swedish spole (“spool”), Icelandic spóla (“spool; reel”). The aviation usage is based on the visual similarity of one of the spools of a turbine engine to a spool used for thread (especially in cross-section). See also spill.
From blend of spa + pool.
Words formed from spool
Phrases with spool
Words that rhyme with spool
42 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- ghoul
- doole
- pule
- yule
- buhl
- huemul
- Juul
- misrule
- poule
- rocking stool
- you'll
- 6-2-1 rule
- adverse interest rule
- aemule
- babul
- befool
- bool
- cagoule
- crool
- emule
- firefighter's rule
- gigajoule
- grool
- gule
- hool
- hydrocool
- joule
- kewl
- kilojoule
- megajoule
- mewl
- pasta fazool
- petajoule
- retool
- shul
- snool
- sool
- terajoule
- torchecul
- tulle
- uncool
- yottajoule
Questions about spool
- What does spool mean?
- Spool means a reel; a device around which thread, wire or cable is wound, especially a cylinder or spindle.
- What is spool in Hindi?
- Spool in Hindi is अटेरन (aṭeran). See Spool meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is spool?
- Spool can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce spool?
- Spool is pronounced /spuːl/.
- What is the plural of spool?
- The plural of spool is spools.
Words near spool in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: spool (page history and authors); spool (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); spool (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); spool (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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