spool
/spuːl/ (bre, ipa) · [spˈul] /spuːl/ (ame, ipa) · [spˈul] /ˈspül How to pronounce spool (audio)/ (ame, mw)
spool — noun
- spoolsingular
- spoolsplural
1. a small reel with raised sides that keeps thread, wire, ribbon, film, or a simil
a small reel with raised sides that keeps thread, wire, ribbon, film, or a similar material wound neatly in place.
Aarav set a fresh spool of blue thread beside the sewing machine.
a spool of + material
The electrician dropped the spool of copper wire under the workbench.
spool of copper wire
Piotr loaded the film spool carefully before closing the camera back.
At the craft fair, Mayumi sold ribbon by the spool, not by the metre.
文法句型
a spool of + material
用法筆記
Often appears in the pattern 'a spool of' plus the material wound around it, especially in sewing, wiring, and film contexts.
常見錯誤
spool — verb
- spoolpresent simple I / you / we / they
- spools3rd person singular
- spooling-ing form
- spooledpast simple
1. to wrap thread, wire, film, or a similar material around a reel-shaped holder so
to wrap thread, wire, film, or a similar material around a reel-shaped holder so it can be stored or used later.
Kian spooled the fishing line neatly after the trip to the lake.
spool + line
The studio assistant spooled the microphone cable before loading the van.
spool + cable
Joon spooled the film in darkness before sealing the camera case.
Christopher spooled the ribbon onto clean reels for the shop display.
文法句型
spool + material
spool + material + onto + reel/spool
用法筆記
Usually takes the material as its direct object, and it often appears with an 'onto' phrase naming the reel or spool receiving it. Distinguish from sense 2: this sense is about winding a physical material, not queueing digital data.
常見錯誤
2. to place data in temporary storage before it is sent onward to a printer or anot
to place data in temporary storage before it is sent onward to a printer or another device.
The server spooled each report before sending it to the office printer.
spool a report before printing
Our billing system spools labels overnight, then prints them at dawn.
spool labels overnight
When the network slowed, the laptop spooled the job to local storage.
The print room software spooled fifty invoices while the printer was offline.
- stream
send the data onward continuously instead of storing the whole job first
文法句型
spool + print job/data/report
spool + data + to + local storage
用法筆記
This is a technical computing sense, most often used for print jobs or other data that is queued briefly before a device is ready to receive it.