Difference between Spool and Reel

What is the difference between Spool and Reel?

Spool as a noun is a device around which thread, wire or cable is wound, especially a cylinder or spindle. while Reel as a noun is a lively dance of the highlanders of scotland; also, the music to the dance; -- often called scotch reel.

Spool

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A device around which thread, wire or cable is wound, especially a cylinder or spindle. A small swimming pool that can be used also as a spa.

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To send files to some device or program (a "spooler" or demon) that puts them in a queue for later processing of some kind. 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.

Reel

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A lively dance of the Highlanders of Scotland; also, the music to the dance; -- often called Scotch reel.A frame with radial arms, or a kind of spool, turning on an axis, on which yarn, threads, lines, or the like, are woundA machine on which yarn is wound and measured into lays and hanks, -- for cotton or linen it is fifty-four inches in circuit; for worsted, thirty inches.A device consisting of radial arms with horizontal stats, connected with a harvesting machine, for holding the stalks of grain in position to be cut by the knives.A short compilation of sample film work used as a demonstrative resume in the entertainment industry.

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To wind on a reel.To spin or revolve repeatedly.To unwind, to bring or acquire something by spinning or winding something else.To walk shakily or unsteadily; to stagger; move as if drunk or not in control of one's self.(reel back) To back off or step away unsteadily and quickly.To make or cause to reel.

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