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Spools
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.
spool (plural spools)
- A reel; a device around which thread, wire or cable is wound, especially a cylinder or spindle.
- 2011, Rebekah Modrak, Bill Anthes, Reframing Photography: Theory and Practice:
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:
- (aviation) 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 heated by the low- and intermediate-pressure compressors. - (computing) A temporary storage area for electronic mail, etc.
- (West Yorkshire) A splinter caught in the skin.
- earspool
- multispool
- pipe spool
- spool-and-line
- spool brush
- spool cannon
- spoolful
- spoolie
- spoolless
- spoollike
- spoolwood
- spoolwork
- unspool
(rotating assembly of a turbine engine):
Abkhaz: акәанҷ (akʷʼančʼ)
Burmese: တညင်းလုံး (my) (ta.nyang:lum:), ဘီးလုံး (my) (bhi:lum:)
Catalan: please add this translation if you can
Danish: spole c
Emilian: please add this translation if you can
Esperanto: bobeno
Friulian: spuele f
Greek: καρούλι (el) n (karoúli), πηνίο (el) n (pinío), κουβαρίστρα (el) f (kouvarístra)
Ancient Greek: πήνη f (pḗnē), πηνίον n (pēníon)Haitian Creole: bobin
Hawaiian: pōkaʻa
Ingrian: katuška
Italian: bobina (it) f, rocchetto (it) m, spagnoletta (it) f, spoletta (it) f, fuso (it) m, spola (it) f, navicella (it) f
Japanese: スプール (supūru)
Kyrgyz: катушка (katuşka), түрмөк (ky) (türmök), түргүч (türgüc)
Ladin: please add this translation if you can
Latin: alabrum n
Latvian: spole f
Ligurian: bobìnn-a f
Lithuanian: ritė f
Lombard: please add this translation if you can
Macedonian: ма́кара f (mákara)
Malay: kekili
Norwegian:
Bokmål: spole mPersian:
Dari: قَرْقَرَه (qarqara)
Iranian Persian: قِرْقِرِه (ġerġere)Piedmontese: please add this translation if you can
Plautdietsch: Spool f
Romagnol: please add this translation if you can
Russian: кату́шка (ru) f (katúška), шпу́лька (ru) f (špúlʹka), боби́на (ru) f (bobína)
Slovak: cievka f
Tajik: ғалтак (ġaltak)
Turkish: makara (tr), masura (tr)
Ottoman Turkish: ماسوره (masura), استاج (istac), مقره (makara), بوبین (bobin)Welsh: sbŵl m
Yiddish: שפּול f (shpul)
spool (third-person singular simple present spools, present participle spooling, simple past and past participle spooled)
- To wind on a spool or spools.
- (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).
to send files to some device or program that puts them in a queue for later processing of some kind
spool (plural spools)
- A small swimming pool that can be used also as a spa.