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Spool
01
a winder around which thread or tape or film or other flexible materials can be wound
Grammatical Information
animacy status
inanimate
plural form
spools
to spool
01
to wind material onto a cylindrical device for storage or use
Transitive: to spool a flexible material
Grammatical Information
action verb
regular
present tense
spool
3rd person singular
spools
past simple
spooled
past participle
spooled
Examples
She spooled the thread onto the bobbin for sewing.
02
to send data to a temporary storage location, often a buffer or queue, before it is processed or printed
Transitive: to spool data
Examples
The print jobs are spooled to the printer's buffer, allowing multiple documents to be processed in sequence.
