Used in a Sentence

spool

How to use spool in a sentence. Example sentences and definitions for spool.

Editorial note

In fact, his mbox file wasn't even protected, you could grep the /var/spool/mail directory.

Examples8
Definitions3
Parts of speech2

Quick take

a winder around which thread or tape or film or other flexible materials can be wound

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of spool gathered in one view.

noun

a winder around which thread or tape or film or other flexible materials can be wound

verb

transfer data intended for a peripheral device (usually a printer) into temporary storage

verb

wind onto a spool or a reel

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for spool.

noun

a winder around which thread or tape or film or other flexible materials can be wound

verb

transfer data intended for a peripheral device (usually a printer) into temporary storage

verb

wind onto a spool or a reel

Example sentences

1

In fact, his mbox file wasn't even protected, you could grep the /var/spool/mail directory.

2

The city buses have a huge turbo diesel or natural gas engine, and the turbo takes about 3 seconds to spool up.

3

Printing a book as a print spool, including a self-referential handwritten program to print the spool?

4

The notion of storing my mail spool on anyone else's servers is unfathomably derelict to me.

5

In the EC2/OpenStack model, you cannot have customers spool up VMs with arbitrary specs; they must choose from available flavors.

6

It's similar to people's reaction to the comparative threat of keeping their email on Google Mail or some random webmail provider that's likely to lose their mail spool to SQL injection.

7

When the turbo is spools up, the internal combustion engine should be slowly introduced by adding fuel according to the correct stoichiometric ratio.

8

For example, knowing that the only way to get a query to run against a large Teradata table without running out of spool space is to create and use temp tables only comes as a result from trying to run the query.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use spool in a sentence?

In fact, his mbox file wasn't even protected, you could grep the /var/spool/mail directory.

What does spool mean?

a winder around which thread or tape or film or other flexible materials can be wound

What part of speech is spool?

spool is commonly used as noun, verb.