spool
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/spuːl/
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/spuːl/
A spool is a cylindrical object that you use to hold thread, wire, or film.
She cut a piece of thread from the spool.
她从线轴上剪下一段线。
To spool means to wind something onto a spool.
The machine spooled the wire onto a new spool.
机器将电线绕到了一个新的线轴上。
To spool also means to temporarily store data, like on a disk, before it is printed.
The computer was spooling the document to the printer.
计算机正在将文件发送到打印机。