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Spool
01
a winder around which thread or tape or film or other flexible materials can be wound
to spool
01
to wind material onto a cylindrical device for storage or use
Transitive: to spool a flexible material
Example
The film was spooled onto the projector for the movie screening.
She spooled the thread onto the bobbin for sewing.
The fishing line was carefully spooled onto the reel.
02
to send data to a temporary storage location, often a buffer or queue, before it is processed or printed
Transitive: to spool data
Example
Email messages are spooled to the mail server 's queue before being forwarded to their intended recipients.
The print jobs are spooled to the printer 's buffer, allowing multiple documents to be processed in sequence.
When sending large files over the network, data is spooled to a temporary storage location to ensure smooth transmission.
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