"spool up" meaning in All languages combined

{
  "antonyms": [
    {
      "word": "spool down"
    }
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "spools up",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "spooling up",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "spooled up",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "spooled up",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*"
      },
      "expansion": "spool up (third-person singular simple present spools up, present participle spooling up, simple past and past participle spooled up)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Aviation",
          "orig": "en:Aviation",
          "parents": [
            "Aeronautics",
            "Transport",
            "Sciences",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "52 48",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "50 50",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English phrasal verbs formed with \"up\"",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "The large rotational inertia of the heavy compressor and turbine rotors makes the engine slow to spool up from idle.",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To increase in rotational speed, producing an increase in thrust."
      ],
      "id": "en-spool_up-en-verb-Cwqch9qW",
      "links": [
        [
          "aviation",
          "aviation"
        ],
        [
          "rotational",
          "rotational"
        ],
        [
          "speed",
          "speed"
        ],
        [
          "thrust",
          "thrust"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(aviation, of a turbine engine) To increase in rotational speed, producing an increase in thrust."
      ],
      "raw_tags": [
        "of a turbine engine"
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "_dis1": "69 31",
          "word": "spoolup"
        }
      ],
      "topics": [
        "aeronautics",
        "aerospace",
        "aviation",
        "business",
        "engineering",
        "natural-sciences",
        "physical-sciences"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "52 48",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "50 50",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English phrasal verbs formed with \"up\"",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "Near-synonym: spin up"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2021 December 7, Drachinifel, 25:02 from the start, in Pearl Harbour - Context, History, and an account from someone who was there, archived from the original on 2022-08-21",
          "text": "I guess it shows a couple of things, doesn't it; one is, when we're talking about 1941, although the industrial potential of the United States is there, the actual industrial production that we're so used to thinking of when it comes to World War II hasn't quite spooled up yet, because we're talking - we're talking there, about, as you say, they're quibbling about the Navy requisitioning a number of guns that's the equivalent to, later in the war, y'know, barrel-wise, the same number as you'd find as the heavy antiaircraft armament of a single battleship, and they're smaller guns[…]",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To be brought into full operation; to reach full potential or capacity."
      ],
      "id": "en-spool_up-en-verb-wHRC9SqN",
      "links": [
        [
          "full",
          "full"
        ],
        [
          "operation",
          "operation"
        ],
        [
          "potential",
          "potential"
        ],
        [
          "capacity",
          "capacity"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(figurative) To be brought into full operation; to reach full potential or capacity."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "figuratively"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "spool up"
}

{
  "antonyms": [
    {
      "word": "spool down"
    }
  ],
  "categories": [
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English multiword terms",
    "English phrasal verbs",
    "English phrasal verbs formed with \"up\"",
    "English verbs"
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "spools up",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "spooling up",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "spooled up",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "spooled up",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*"
      },
      "expansion": "spool up (third-person singular simple present spools up, present participle spooling up, simple past and past participle spooled up)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "spoolup"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with usage examples",
        "en:Aviation"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "The large rotational inertia of the heavy compressor and turbine rotors makes the engine slow to spool up from idle.",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To increase in rotational speed, producing an increase in thrust."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "aviation",
          "aviation"
        ],
        [
          "rotational",
          "rotational"
        ],
        [
          "speed",
          "speed"
        ],
        [
          "thrust",
          "thrust"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(aviation, of a turbine engine) To increase in rotational speed, producing an increase in thrust."
      ],
      "raw_tags": [
        "of a turbine engine"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "aeronautics",
        "aerospace",
        "aviation",
        "business",
        "engineering",
        "natural-sciences",
        "physical-sciences"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "Near-synonym: spin up"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2021 December 7, Drachinifel, 25:02 from the start, in Pearl Harbour - Context, History, and an account from someone who was there, archived from the original on 2022-08-21",
          "text": "I guess it shows a couple of things, doesn't it; one is, when we're talking about 1941, although the industrial potential of the United States is there, the actual industrial production that we're so used to thinking of when it comes to World War II hasn't quite spooled up yet, because we're talking - we're talking there, about, as you say, they're quibbling about the Navy requisitioning a number of guns that's the equivalent to, later in the war, y'know, barrel-wise, the same number as you'd find as the heavy antiaircraft armament of a single battleship, and they're smaller guns[…]",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To be brought into full operation; to reach full potential or capacity."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "full",
          "full"
        ],
        [
          "operation",
          "operation"
        ],
        [
          "potential",
          "potential"
        ],
        [
          "capacity",
          "capacity"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(figurative) To be brought into full operation; to reach full potential or capacity."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "figuratively"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "spool up"
}