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English
Spools
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
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 *spel- ( “ 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).
Noun
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 .
( 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.
Derived terms
( rotating assembly of a turbine engine ) :
Translations
spindle
Abkhaz: акәанҷ ( akʷʼančʼ )
Afrikaans: spoel
Albanian: shtjellë (sq) f
Arabic: بَكَرَة f ( bakara )
Egyptian Arabic: بكرة f ( bakara )
Armenian: կոճ (hy) ( koč )
Belarusian: кату́шка f ( katúška ) , шпу́лька f ( špúlʹka )
Breton: kanell (br) f
Bulgarian: макара (bg) f ( makara ) , шпула (bg) f ( špula )
Catalan: please add this translation if you can
Chinese:
Mandarin: 捲筒 / 卷筒 (zh) ( juǎntǒng )
Czech: naviják (cs) f , cívka (cs) f , špulka f
Danish: spole c
Dutch: bobijn (nl) f , spoel (nl) f
Emilian: please add this translation if you can
Esperanto: bobeno
Finnish: hylsy (fi) , rulla (fi) , puola (fi)
French: bobine (fr) f
Friulian: spuele f
German: Spule (de) f
Greek:
Ancient: πήνη f ( pḗnē ) , πηνίον n ( pēníon )
Haitian Creole: bobin
Hawaiian: pōkaʻa
Hungarian: tekercs (hu)
Icelandic: spóla f , kefli n
Indonesian: kumparan (id)
Ingrian: katuška
Irish: roithleán m
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 )
Khmer: ត្រសាល់ (km) ( trɑsal )
Korean: 스풀 ( seupul ) , 실패 (ko) ( silpae )
Ladin: please add this translation if you can
Lao: ກະສວຍ (lo) ( kat wa nya )
Latin: alabrum n
Ligurian: bobìnn-a f
Lombard: please add this translation if you can
Macedonian: ма́кара f ( mákara )
Malay: kekili
Maori: takatakai , pōkaimiro ( for thread or yarn )
Piedmontese: please add this translation if you can
Plautdietsch: Spool f
Polish: szpula (pl) , szpulka (pl) f
Portuguese: carretel (pt) m , bobina (pt)
Romagnol: please add this translation if you can
Romanian: mosor (ro) n , bobină (ro) f
Russian: кату́шка (ru) f ( katúška ) , шпу́лька (ru) f ( špúlʹka ) , боби́на (ru) f ( bobína )
Slovak: cievka f
Spanish: carrete (es) m , bobina (es) f
Swedish: spole (sv) c
Tagalog: ulak , mag-ikid , kidkiran
Thai: ม้วน (th) ( múuan ) , กระสวย (th) ( grà-sǔai )
Turkish: makara (tr)
Ukrainian: коту́шка f ( kotúška ) , шпу́лька f ( špúlʹka )
Uzbek: gʻaltak (uz) , naycha (uz)
Vietnamese: please add this translation if you can
Welsh: sbŵl m
Verb
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).
Derived terms
Translations
to send files to some device or program that puts them in a queue for later processing of some kind
Etymology 2
From blend of spa + pool .
Noun
spool (plural spools )
A small swimming pool that can be used also as a spa .
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