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Definition of 'reel'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (n.) reel
a cylinder or other device that turns on an axis and is used to wind up or let out wire, rope, film, etc.

2.  reel
a rotatory device attached to a fishing rod at the butt, for winding up or letting out the line.

3.  reel
a quantity of something wound on a reel.

4.  reel
Brit. a spool of sewing thread.

5. (v.t.) reel
to wind on a reel.

6.  reel
to unwind (silk filaments) from a cocoon.

7.  reel
to pull by winding a line on a reel:
to reel a fish in.

8.  reel
reel off, to say or write fluently and quickly, as a sequence of items.

9. (v.i.) reel
to sway or rock under a blow, shock, etc.

10.  reel
to waver or retreat.

11.  reel
to sway about in standing or walking, as from dizziness or intoxication; stagger.

12.  reel
to turn round and round; whirl.

13.  reel
to have a sensation of whirling:
His brain reeled.

14. (v.t.) reel
to cause to reel.

15. (n.) reel
a reeling or staggering movement.

16. (n.) reel
a lively Scottish dance.

17.  reel
music for a reel.

Etymology: (1575–85; orig. Scots; appar. identical with reel¹ or reel²)

Definition of 'reel'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (noun) reel
a roll of photographic film holding a series of frames to be projected by a movie projector

2. (noun) reel
music composed for dancing a reel

3. (noun) reel
winder consisting of a revolving spool with a handle; attached to a fishing rod

4. (noun) bobbin, spool, reel
a winder around which thread or tape or film or other flexible materials can be wound

5. (noun) reel, Scottish reel
a lively dance of Scottish Highlanders; marked by circular moves and gliding steps

6. (verb) Virginia reel, reel
an American country dance which starts with the couples facing each other in two lines

7. (verb) stagger, reel, keel, lurch, swag, careen
walk as if unable to control one's movements
"The drunken man staggered into the room"

8. (verb) spin, spin around, whirl, reel, gyrate
revolve quickly and repeatedly around one's own axis
"The dervishes whirl around and around without getting dizzy"

9. (verb) reel
wind onto or off a reel

Definition of 'reel'

Webster Dictionary

1. (noun) reel
a lively dance of the Highlanders of Scotland; also, the music to the dance; -- often called Scotch reel

2. (noun) reel
a frame with radial arms, or a kind of spool, turning on an axis, on which yarn, threads, lines, or the like, are wound; as, a log reel, used by seamen; an angler's reel; a garden reel

3. (noun) reel
a 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

4. (noun) reel
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

5. (noun) reel
the act or motion of reeling or staggering; as, a drunken reel

6. (verb) reel
to roll

7. (verb) reel
to wind upon a reel, as yarn or thread

8. (verb) reel
to incline, in walking, from one side to the other; to stagger

9. (verb) reel
to have a whirling sensation; to be giddy

Translation of 'reel'

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

Sense: a round wheel-shaped or cylindrical object of wood, metal etc on which thread, film, fishing-lines etc can be wound a reel of sewing-cotton; He changed the reel in the projector.
Afrikaans: spoel	Arabic: بَكَرَه	Bulgarian: макара
Brazilian: rolo	Czech: cívka	German: die Rolle
Danish: trisse; spole	Greek: καρούλι, μπομπίνα	Spanish: carrete, bobina
Estonian: pool, rull	Farsi: قرقره؛ ماسوره	Finnish: kela
French: bobine	Hebrew: סְלִיל, גָלִיל	Hindi: घिरनी
Croatian: rola	Hungarian: tekercs	Indonesian: penggulung
Icelandic: spóla, rúlla, hjól	Italian: bobina	Japanese: 糸巻き状のもの
Korean: (실, 밧줄, 호스 등을 감는) 릴	Lithuanian: ritė	Latvian: spole; rullis
Malay: kekili	Dutch: spoel	Norwegian: spole, rull, snelle
Polish: szpulka	Persian: قرقره؛ ماسوره	Pashto: خرڅول، تاويدل، چورلول، چو
Portuguese: rolo	Romanian: mosor; bobină	Russian: катушка
Slovak: cievka	Slovenian: tuljava, kolut	Serbian: rolna
Swedish: rulle, spole	Thai: ม้วนฟิล์ม	Turkish: makara, bobin
Taiwanese: 卷軸	Ukrainian: котушка; рулон	Urdu: چرخی
Vietnamese: ống chỉ	Chinese: 卷轴
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