spool

n.

1. 1. A cylinder of wood, plastic, cardboard, or other material on which wire, thread, or string is wound.
   2. The amount of wire, thread, or string wound on such a cylinder.
   3. Something similar to such a cylinder in shape or function.
2. A reel for magnetic tape.

tr. & intr.v., spooled, spool·ing, spools.
To wind or be wound on or off a spool.

[Middle English spole, from Old North French espole and from Middle Dutch and Middle Low German spoele (Old North French , from Middle Dutch).]

spool² (spūl)
tr.v., spooled, spool·ing, spools.
To store (data sent to a printer) in a buffer, allowing the program that sent the data to the printer to resume its normal operation.

[s(imultaneous) p(eripheral) o(perations) o(n) l(ine).]

A Queue of computer files waiting to be printed.

[from early IBM ‘Simultaneous Peripheral Operation On-Line’, but is widely thought to be a backronym] To send files to some device or program (a spooler) that queues them up and does something useful with them later. Without qualification, the spooler is the print spooler controlling output of jobs to a printer; but the term has been used in connection with other peripherals (especially plotters and graphics devices) and occasionally even for input devices. See also demon.

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Dansk (Danish)
n. - spole, rulle
v. tr. - spole, vikle
v. intr. - spole

Nederlands (Dutch)
spoelen, spoel, klos

Français (French)
n. - bobine, canette, tambour, rouleau
v. tr. - dévider, (Comput) traiter (qch) en différé
v. intr. - bobiner, débobiner

Deutsch (German)
n. - Spule, Trommel
v. - spulen

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - πηνίο, καρούλι, μασούρι, κουβαρίστρα, έλικτρο, μπομπίνα
v. - περιελίσσω, τυλίγω, (Η/Υ) παροχετεύω, ετεροχρονίζω (εκτύπωση)

Italiano (Italian)
bobinare, avvolgere, memorizzare (inf.), rocchetto

Português (Portuguese)
n. - carretel (m)
v. - bobinar

Русский (Russian)
катушка, бобина, каркас обмотки, наматывать (на катушку), записывать в буферный файл

Español (Spanish)
n. - devanadera, carrete, bobina
v. tr. - enrollar, devanar, encanillar
v. intr. - ventear, husmear, desvanar, desenrollar

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - spole, rulle, trådrulle
v. - spola

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
线轴, 缠线用的框, 缠绕在线轴上, 缠绕, 被绕在线轴上, 绕线

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 線軸, 纏線用的框
v. tr. - 纏繞在線軸上, 纏繞
v. intr. - 被繞在線軸上, 繞線

한국어 (Korean)
n. - 실패, 실꾸릿대, 실 따위의) 감는 틀
v. tr. - ~에 실패에 감다, 되감다
v. intr. - ~에 실패에 감다, 되감다

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 糸巻き, リール, ひと巻き
v. - 糸巻きに巻く

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) بكرة (خيط أو شريط سينما) (فعل) يلف على بكرة, (كومبيوتر) أعمال طباعه أو غيرها طباعه حسب جدول زمني‏

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮אשווה, מזרבה, סליל, גליל‬
v. tr. - ‮כרך על סליל‬
v. intr. - ‮נכרך על סליל‬

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