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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Synonyms:

bobbin; reel; spool

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("spool" is a kind of...):

winder (mechanical device around which something can be wound)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "spool"):

filature (a bobbin used in spinning silk into thread)

shuttle (bobbin that passes the weft thread between the warp threads)

Derivation:

spool (wind onto a spool or a reel)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Wind onto a spool or a reel

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Hypernyms (to "spool" is one way to...):

roll; twine; wind; wrap (arrange or or coil around)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "spool"):

cheese (wind onto a cheese)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

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

Sense 2

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Hypernyms (to "spool" is one way to...):

transfer (move from one place to another)

Domain category:

computer science; computing (the branch of engineering science that studies (with the aid of computers) computable processes and structures)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

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