🧵 A cylinder holder 🔄 To wind material 🖨️ To queue data

to spool

7.7

To put data into temporary storage before sending it to a device like a printer

verb
/spuːl/

Specialized

: encolar

And so you can see you have a biodegradable paper coming through right here, spooling up and coming through just like this.

Examples

And you ask the question, do these guys have a choice that they spool or is it their fate that they're doing that?
So we're disturbing this survival circuit so much that we disrupt the spooling of the DNA.
I'm thinking repeated spooling must do something right.
He pressed a button, and a narrow line of paper began spooling out of the computer.

Fiction book (2001)
So we're disturbing this survival circuit so much that we disrupt the spooling of the DNA.
They're distracted by DNA repair and the packaging of that DNA that that hose spooling starts to loosen.
To save processing time, the printer will spool the documents before printing them.
He configured the settings to spool the print jobs, allowing the printing to occur automatically.
If you choose to spool your documents, they will be stored temporarily until the printer is ready.

Phrasal Verbs

to spool up

Specialized

1 8.1

To start a machine or computer so it is ready to use

Surface Forms

spool infinitive

spooled past

spooled past participle

spooling present participle

spools third person singular

Etymology

A helpful way to remember the computing verb spool is to think of putting print jobs onto a 'roll' to wait their turn, because in computing to spool is to store documents in order so the printer can take them one by one.