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- verb Present participle of
spool .
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Examples
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But what do you expect with a tropical storm with that name spooling up in the Caribbean and the track skirting on the edge of town?
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At that time, there was a process known as spooling, in which Page 1 was printed on a film paper to do away with the 'hazards' of cut and paste process.
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Server is "spooling" an interim result set to a secondary location (tempdb) so that it can do something with that data later in the plan.
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I heard the unmistakable zipping sound of fishing line spooling out of my reel, yanked my rod from its holder and snapped the line to set the hook.
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But rewind 25 years (pretend you hear the whir of cassette tape spooling by as you read this), and it was another story.
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I met her at his apartment, where only she and I were not interested in the middle ages role playing tournament they were spooling together.
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But rewind 25 years (pretend you hear the whir of cassette tape spooling by as you read this), and it was another story.
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The big boys i.e. Google et.al. are spooling up info. like crazy.
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Peers had a spider- silk spooling device in his office there and Godley convinced him to use it to recreate a technique not practised for more than a century.
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However, unlike battery-equipped hybrids, the Porsche stores its amperage mechanically, spooling up a 31-pound flywheel operating in a vacuum chamber in one hopes a crash-proof box beside the driver.
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