spooling out
spooling out is the present participle and gerund of spool out.
Meaning of spool out
Verb
spool out (third-person singular simple present spools out, present participle spooling out, simple past and past participle spooled out)
- To appear in succession, as if from a film spool.
- The old songs spool out, reaffirming once again everything that is great about the Streets. "Brace yourself, 'cause this goes deep," runs a line from Turn the Page, pointing up [Mike] Skinner's ability to grapple with existential dread as well as the cinematic, blow-by-blow accounts of everyday...2019 January 26, Kitty Empire [pseudonym], “The Streets review – the agony and ecstasy of a great everyman”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC...
Questions about spooling out
- What is spooling out the present participle and gerund of?
- Spooling out is the present participle and gerund of spool out.
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