Diccionario ingles.comDiccionario ingles.com
Synonyms, antonyms, pronunciation

  Home 		English Dictionary      examples: 'day', 'get rid of', 'New York Bay'




Reel   /ril/   Listen
Reel

noun
1.
A roll of photographic film holding a series of frames to be projected by a movie projector.
2.
Music composed for dancing a reel.
3.
Winder consisting of a revolving spool with a handle; attached to a fishing rod.
4.
A winder around which thread or tape or film or other flexible materials can be wound.  Synonyms: bobbin, spool.
5.
A lively dance of Scottish Highlanders; marked by circular moves and gliding steps.  Synonym: Scottish reel.
6.
An American country dance which starts with the couples facing each other in two lines.  Synonym: Virginia reel.
verb
(past & past part. reeled; pres. part. reeling)
1.
Walk as if unable to control one's movements.  Synonyms: careen, keel, lurch, stagger, swag.
2.
Revolve quickly and repeatedly around one's own axis.  Synonyms: gyrate, spin, spin around, whirl.
3.
Wind onto or off a reel.



Related searches:
reel off
reeler
Scottish reel
unreel
Virginia reel


WordNet 3.0 © 2010 Princeton University


Advanced search
     Find words:
Starting with
Ending with
Containing
Matching a pattern  

Synonyms
Antonyms
Quotes
Words linked to  

only single words


Share |




"Reel" Quotes from Famous Books



... that thread is very fond of tying itself into a bow; but this can be prevented by threading the cotton into the needle before you cut it off the reel, making your knot at the end ...
— How Girls Can Help Their Country • Juliette Low
... letter to the firm of Nucingen," answered du Tillet, perceiving that he could make his victim dance all the figures in the reel of bankruptcy. ...
— Rise and Fall of Cesar Birotteau • Honore de Balzac
... slenderest gossamer chance. He tried to think that the knowledge of her love would soothe him even in his dying hours; but the phantoms of what life with her might be would obtrude, and made him almost gasp and reel under the uncertainty he was enduring. Will's appearance had only added to the intensity ...
— Mary Barton • Elizabeth Gaskell
... you wear it is." I couldn't keep back my grattyfycashun, so I thanked him three or four times. You bet I was mad, wen I fownd out there warnt no cherry or mince pie, not even dryed appel, but only a lot of type wot had got mixed up. I think its reel mene to make a littel boy like me think hes goin to get a big feed, and then not give him enything but a lot of led wot nobodie ...
— The Bad Boy At Home - And His Experiences In Trying To Become An Editor - 1885 • Walter T. Gray
... are tired after the rehearsal?" enquired Mr Pilkington in his precise voice. He always spoke as if he were weighing each word and clipping it off a reel. ...
— The Little Warrior - (U.K. Title: Jill the Reckless) • P. G. Wodehouse


More quotes...


Copyright © 2025 Diccionario ingles.com