verb
- wound onto a spool or reel
- transferred data to a temporary storage area for later processing
Usage: computing
Examples
- The thread was spooled neatly onto the bobbin.
- She spooled the fishing line back onto the reel.
- The cable was spooled around the drum for storage.
- The printer spooled the documents before printing them.
- Data was spooled to the hard drive while the system processed other tasks.
- The film was carefully spooled onto the projector reel.