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say it: reel
reel is a noun and verb meaning "a roll of photographic film holding a series of frames to be projected by a movie projector". It carries 9 recorded senses.
a roll of photographic film holding a series of frames to be projected by a movie projector
music composed for dancing a reel
winder consisting of a revolving spool with a handle; attached to a fishing rod
a lively dance of Scottish Highlanders; marked by circular moves and gliding steps
an American country dance which starts with the couples facing each other in two lines
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for reel come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.