From en.wiktionary.org:
** English
*** Pronunciation
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- [en]
- [en]
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*** Etymology 1
From [en] (possibly via [en], [fro]), from [en], from [en], [odt], from [en],
from [en].
Cognate with [stq], [nl], [de], [sv], [is]. 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 [en].
**** Noun
[en-noun]
1. A reel ; a device around which thread , wire or cable is wound , especially a cylinder or spindle .
2. * {{ quote-text | en | year=2011 | author=Rebekah Modrak; Bill Anthes | title=Reframing Photography: Theory and Practice
|passage=If you need to reload film, the cassette can be rewound slightly by
turning the hub located on one end of its SPOOL.}}
1. [en] 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.
2. [en] A temporary storage area for electronic mail , etc.
3. [en] A splinter caught in the skin.
***** Derived terms
[en] [rotating assembly of a turbine engine]
- [en] ; [en]
- [en] ; [en]
***** Translations
[spindle]
- Abkhaz: [ab]
- Afrikaans: [af]
- Albanian: [sq]
- Arabic: [ar]
- Armenian: [hy]
- Azerbaijani: [az]
- Belarusian: [be] , [be]
- Breton: [br]
- Bulgarian: [bg] , [bg]
- Burmese: [my] , [my]
- Catalan: [ca]
- Chinese:
- Czech: [cs] , [cs] , [cs]
- Danish: [da]
- Dutch: [nl] , [nl]
- Emilian: [egl]
- Esperanto: [eo]
- Estonian: [et]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi] , [fi]
- French: [fr]
- Friulian: [fur]
- Georgian: [ka]
- German: [de]
- Greek: [el] , [el] , [el]
- Haitian Creole: [ht]
- Hawaiian: [haw]
- Hebrew: [he]
- Hindi: [hi]
- Hungarian: [hu]
- Icelandic: [is] , [is]
- Indonesian: [id]
- Ingrian: [izh]
- Irish: [ga] , [ga]
- Italian: [it] , [it] , [it] , [it] , [it] , [it] , [it]
- Japanese: [ja]
- Kazakh: [kk] , [kk] , [kk]
- Khmer: [km]
- Korean: [ko] , [ko]
- Kyrgyz: [ky] , [ky] , [ky]
- Ladin: [lld]
- Lao: [lo]
- Latin: [la]
- Latvian: [lv]
- Ligurian: [lij]
- Lithuanian: [lt]
- Lombard: [lmo]
- Macedonian: [mk]
- Malay: [ms]
- Maori: [mi] , [mi] [for thread or yarn]
- Mongolian:
- Norwegian:
- Ottoman Turkish: [ota] , [ota] , [ota] , [ota]
- Persian:
- Piedmontese: [pms]
- Plautdietsch: [pdt]
- Polish: [pl] , [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt] , [pt]
- Romagnol: [rgn]
- Romanian: [ro] , [ro]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru] , [ru]
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Slovak: [sk]
- Slovene: [sl]
- Spanish: [es] , [es]
- Swedish: [sv]
- Tagalog: [tl] , [tl] , [tl]
- Tajik: [tg]
- Tatar: [tt]
- Thai: [th] , [th]
- Turkish: [tr]
- Ukrainian: [uk] , [uk]
- Uzbek: [uz] , [uz]
- Vietnamese: [vi]
- Welsh: [cy]
- Yiddish: [yi]
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**** Verb
[en-verb]
1. To wind on a spool or spools.
2. [en] To send file s 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
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
***** Translations
[to send files to some device or program that puts them in a queue for later
processing of some kind]
- Finnish: [fi]
- French: [fr]
- Icelandic: [is]
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*** Etymology 2
From [en].
**** Noun
[en-noun]
1. A small swimming pool that can be used also as a spa .
*** Anagrams
- [en]
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