"spool out" meaning in All languages combined

See spool out on Wiktionary

Verb [English]

Forms: spools out [present, singular, third-person], spooling out [participle, present], spooled out [participle, past], spooled out [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|*}} spool out (third-person singular simple present spools out, present participle spooling out, simple past and past participle spooled out)
  1. (transitive) To appear in succession, as if from a film spool. Tags: transitive

Inflected forms

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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "spools out",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "spooling out",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "spooled out",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "spooled out",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
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        "1": "*"
      },
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      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English phrasal verbs formed with \"out\"",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2019 January 26, Kitty Empire [pseudonym], “The Streets review – the agony and ecstasy of a great everyman”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2019-04-08:",
          "text": "The old songs spool out, reaffirming once again everything that is great about the Streets. \"Brace yourself, 'cause this goes deep,\" runs a line from Turn the Page, pointing up [Mike] Skinner's ability to grapple with existential dread as well as the cinematic, blow-by-blow accounts of everyday lairiness.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To appear in succession, as if from a film spool."
      ],
      "id": "en-spool_out-en-verb-pzVDi07v",
      "links": [
        [
          "appear",
          "appear"
        ],
        [
          "succession",
          "succession"
        ],
        [
          "film",
          "film#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "spool",
          "spool#Noun"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To appear in succession, as if from a film spool."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "spool out"
}
{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "spools out",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "spooling out",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "spooled out",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "spooled out",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*"
      },
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      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
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  "lang_code": "en",
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  "senses": [
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        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English phrasal verbs",
        "English phrasal verbs formed with \"out\"",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English transitive verbs",
        "English verbs",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2019 January 26, Kitty Empire [pseudonym], “The Streets review – the agony and ecstasy of a great everyman”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2019-04-08:",
          "text": "The old songs spool out, reaffirming once again everything that is great about the Streets. \"Brace yourself, 'cause this goes deep,\" runs a line from Turn the Page, pointing up [Mike] Skinner's ability to grapple with existential dread as well as the cinematic, blow-by-blow accounts of everyday lairiness.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To appear in succession, as if from a film spool."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "appear",
          "appear"
        ],
        [
          "succession",
          "succession"
        ],
        [
          "film",
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        ],
        [
          "spool",
          "spool#Noun"
        ]
      ],
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        "(transitive) To appear in succession, as if from a film spool."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
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}

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