spool

1. 1.

   transfer data intended for a peripheral device (usually a printer) into temporary storage

   Broadertransfer

   computer science

2. 2.

   wind onto a spool or a reel

   Broaderwind

   Narrowercheese

1. 1.

   a winder around which thread or tape or film or other flexible materials can be wound

   Synonymsbobbinreel

   Broaderwinder

   Narrowerfilatureshuttle

Other forms of spool

plural

spools·

past tense

spooled·

present participle

spooling·

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.

Questions about spool

What does spool mean?

spool means "transfer data intended for a peripheral device (usually a printer) into temporary storage". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in spool?

spool has 1 syllable: spool. In IPA it is /ˈspul/.

What is another word for spool?

Close synonyms include bobbin, reel. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is spool a common word?

spool is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with spool?

1 word rhymes with spool. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.