reel

reel

reel (third-person singular simple present reels, present participle reeling, simple past and past participle reeled)

1. To wind on a reel.
2. To spin or revolve repeatedly.
3. To unwind, to bring or acquire something by spinning or winding something else.

   He reeled off some tape from the roll and sealed the package.

4. To walk shakily or unsteadily; to stagger; move as if drunk or not in control of ones self.
5. (reel back) To back off or step away unsteadily and quickly.

   He reeled back from the punch.

6. To make or cause to reel.

reel (plural reels)

1. A lively dance of the Highlanders of Scotland; also, the music to the dance; -- often called Scotch reel.
2. A frame with radial arms, or a kind of spool, turning on an axis, on which yarn, threads, lines, or the like, are wound

   a log reel, used by seamen

   an anglers reel

   a garden reel

3. 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. 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. A short compilation of sample film work used as a demonstrative resume in the entertainment industry.

reel (neuter reelt, definite and plural reelle, not comparable)

1. real, proper
2. reliable, trustworthy, honest (about a person)

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Altri significati:

A lively dance of the Highlanders of Scotland; also, the music to the dance; -- often called Scotch 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.

(reel back) To back off or step away unsteadily and quickly.

Dance, music

To spin or revolve repeatedly.

reel (of film)

To unwind, to bring or acquire something by spinning or winding something else.

Compilation of film

Device for a harvesting machine

To make or cause to reel.

Machine for winding yarns

(reel back) to back off or step away unsteadily and quickly

spin (thread)

to wind on a 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

To wind on a reel.

To walk shakily or unsteadily; to stagger; move as if drunk or not in control of one's self.

to bring or acquire something by spinning or winding something else

to spin or revolve repeatedly

A short compilation of sample film work used as a demonstrative resume in the entertainment industry.

Spool

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.

to walk shakily or unsteadily

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