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Definition: Reel |
ReelNoun1. 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. 5. A lively dance of Scottish highlanders; marked by circular moves and gliding steps. 6. An American country dance which starts with the couples facing each other in two lines. Verb1. Walk as if unable to control one's movements. 2. Revolve quickly and repeatedly around one's own axis; "The dervishes whirl around and around without getting dizzy". 3. Move unsteadily or with a weaving or rolling motion. 4. Wind onto or off a reel. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "reel" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1532. (references) |
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Electrical Engineering | A cylinder or barrel on which thick cable or wire is wound. Source: European Union. (references) |
| A device composed of a hub and two circular flanges forming one piece with the hub on which a magnetic tape may be wound. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Fine Arts | A metal or plastic spool upon which film is wound for use in projectors and moviolas. Source: European Union. (references) |
Food & Agriculture | A device to haul lines. Source: European Union. (references) |
| Machine for separating flour from groats and meal, consisting of drums fitted internally with beater bars and covered externally with gauze of various mesh sizes. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Industry | A spool or bobbin for sewing thread. Source: European Union. (references) |
| Continuous length of paper or board wound on a core. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Literature | Reel Right off the reel. Without intermission. A reel is a device for winding rope. A reel of cotton is a certain quantity wound on a bobbin. (Anglo-Saxon reol.) Reel A Scotch dance. (Gaelic, righil.) "We've been travelling best part of twenty-four hours right off the reel."- Boldrewood: Robbery under Arms, chap. xxxi. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Mining | A device used for hoisting that has largely been replaced by round ropes. A flat rope is used for the reel, which is wound on an overlapping spiral like a clock spring. The reel is like a conical drum that increases in diameter by the thickness of the rope at each turn. Reels are more suitable for hoisting from a single level than from different levels. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
A fishing reel is a device used in recreational and sport fishing for the deployment and retrieval of fishing line using a spool mounted on an axle. They are most often used in conjuction with a fishing rod, though some specialised reels are mounted directly on to boats.Reels come in a variety of shapes and sizes, but there are now three basic configurations of reel in common use - overhead, underhand, and threadline (eggbeater).
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Fishing reel."
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
The reel is a folk dance type as well as the accompanying dance tune type. It is believed that the reel was originated in France in the 16th century. From there it spread to Scotland, where it arrived by the 1600s. Its new form was brought to Ireland by the late 1700s and many of the older Irish tunes are borrowings from the Scottish tradition. Today many Irish reels are supplemented with new compositions and by tunes from other traditions which are easily adapted as reels. It is the most popular tune-type within the Irish dance music tradition and it is transcribed in a 4/4 or 2/2 time. All of them have the same structure, it consists largely of quaver movement with an accent on the first and third beats of the bar. Most reels have two parts (AABB) which are repeated. Each part (A or B) has eight bars, which again are divided into four and then into two. These are called phrases. The structure obeys to a scheme of question-answer where A is the "question" and B is the "answer" to A. The group of thirty-two bars (AABB) is repeated three or four times before a second reel is introduced. The grouping of two tunes or more in this manner is typical in all dance tunes.Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Reel."
Synonyms: ReelSynonyms: bobbin (n), spool (n), careen (v), gyrate (v), keel (v), lurch (v), spin (v), spin around (v), stagger (v), swag (v), waggle (v), wamble (v), whirl (v). (additional references) |
| Synonym by domain: roll-on (industry). |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Agitation | Verb: be agitated; shake; tremble, tremble like an aspen leaf; quiver, quaver, quake, shiver, twitter, twire, writhe, toss, shuffle, tumble, stagger, bob, reel, sway, wag, waggle; wriggle, wriggle like an eel; dance, stumble, shamble, flounder, totter, flounce, flop, curvet, prance, cavort; squirm. |
Toss about, jump about; jump like a parched pea; shake like an aspen leaf; shake to its center, shake to its foundations; be the sport of the winds and waves; reel to and fro like a drunken man; move from post to pillar and from pillar to post, drive from post to pillar and from pillar to post, keep between hawk and buzzard. | |
Amusement | Dance; hop, reel, rigadoon, saraband, hornpipe, bolero, ballroom dance; minuet, waltz, polka, fox trot, tango, samba, rhumba, twist, stroll, hustle, cha-cha; fandango, cancan; bayadere; breakdown, cake-walk, cornwallis, break dancing; nautch-girl; shindig; skirtdance, stag dance, Virginia reel, square dance; galop, galopade; jig, Irish jig, fling, strathspey; allemande; gavot, gavotte, tarantella; mazurka, morisco, morris dance; quadrille; country dance, folk dance; cotillon, Sir Roger de Coverley; ballet; (drama); ball; bal, bal masque, bal costume; masquerade; Terpsichore. |
Evolution | Fluctuate, dance, curvet, reel, quake; quiver, quaver; shake, flicker; wriggle; roll, toss, pitch; flounder, stagger, totter; move up and down, bob up and down; AdVerb: pass and repass, ebb and flow, come and go; vacillate; teeter. |
Loquacity | Adverb: trippingly on the tongue; glibly; Adjective: off the reel. |
Mart | Tobacco shop, tobacco store, tobacconists, cigar store, hardware store, jewelry shop, bookstore, liquor store, gun shop, rod and reel shop, furniture store, drugstore, chemist's, florist, flower shop, shoe store, stationer, stationer's, electronics shop, telephone store, music store, record shop, fur store, sporting goods store, video store, video rental store; lumber store, lumber yard, home improvements store, home improvement center; gas station, auto repair shop, auto dealer, used car dealer. |
Submission | Surrender, surrender at discretion; cede, capitulate, come to terms, retreat, beat a retreat; draw in one's horns; (humility); give way, give round, give in, give up; cave in; suffer judgment by default; bend, bend to one's yoke, bend before the storm; reel back; bend down, knuckle down, knuckle to, knuckle under; knock under. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Reel |
| English words defined with "reel": cast, casting, Casting line, cine projector ♦ Death fire ♦ eightsome ♦ film projector, Flour bolt ♦ highland fling ♦ log line, Log reel ♦ movie projector ♦ nakedly ♦ Pirn ♦ reel off, Reel oven, Reeled, Reeling ♦ skyhook, spool, Strathspey, Stray line ♦ unreel, unreeling, unwinding ♦ Windle. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "reel": calf reel ♦ inertia reel ♦ payoff reel ♦ reel assembler, reel boy, reel cutter, reel locomotive, reel operator, reel slitter, reel tender. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Reel" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Danish (actual, practical, real), German (reel, solid), Italian (reel), Manx (reel ), Swedish (reel), Turkish (real). |
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Screenplays | So when the snoody cat, and the courageous dog, with the celebrity voices meet for the first time in reel three, that's when you'll catch a flash of Tyler's contribution to the film (Fight Club; writing credit: Jim Uhls) Did I hear you just turn down a date with that girl? C'mon, man, reel her in (Cheers; writing credit: Isaac Cronin; Wayne Wang) | |
Lyrics | A trifle further and reel and rock with (Roll Over Beethoven; performing artist: Chuck Berry) Go get your lover, then reel and rock it (Roll Over Beethoven; performing artist: Chuck Berry) Oughta see 'em reel and rock (Roll Over Beethoven; performing artist: Chuck Berry) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Le Reel du pendu (1972) The Reel Game (1971) Two Reel Gay Girls (1966) Reel Pink (1965) Hot-Rod and Reel! (1959) | |
Song Titles | Seattle (The Fantasy Reel) (performing artist: Peter Oshtrushko) Ofeo/Nathan's Reel (performing artist: Steeleye Span) | |
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 | Traverse work on Florida's West Coast Traverse crew off of HYDROGRAPHER Circular reel contains invar measuring tape. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |  | Wiredrag - N. H. Heck watching the brake to stop reel Reel stopped to attach floats and buoys to mark wire location Deck of contract sloop NENA A. ROWLAND Wiredrag party of N. H. Heck Only known photograph of Nicholas Heck in the field. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |
 | One net out while a second net remains on the real during trawling operations. Yellow fringe lines on cod end of net on reel is chaffing gear that protects cod end from abrasion on bottom. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. |  | Tuna caught with rod and reel and live bait. Credit: Fisheries. |
 | Fisherman preparing rod and reel for tuna fishing. Credit: Fisheries. |  | Figure 18. Model of the HIRONDELLE's small reel - another device probably made by Jules Le Blanc. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. |
 | Figure 19. Model of the HIRONDELLE's large reel - another device probably made by Jules Le Blanc. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. |  | Plate 32. The forward side of the dredge reel and its engine. The reel having on it 2700 fathoms of the steel rope recommended by Professor Alexander Agassiz. In: "Deep-sea Sounding and Dredging" by Charles D. Sigsbee, 1880. Library Call Number GC75.S53 1880. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. |
 | PRINCESS ALICE sounding machine. The mechanic Le Tac is behind the sounding wire reel. Dr. Richard looks at the counter which registers the depth reached. Plate I print 13. In: "Results of the Scientific Campaigns of the Prince of Monaco." Vol. 89. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. |  | Rutgers University farm supervisor Richard DeStefano operates a ride-on water reel cranberry harvester at the Blueberry and Cranberry Research Center at Chatsworth, New Jersey. P. Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Keith Weller.. |
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| "Film Reel #1" by Christie Ortiz Commentary: "A close up of a film developing reel." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. |
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 | Reel spinning. |
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Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | The string band took a reel tune up and played loudly, for they were not practicing any more |
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Business | The real problem for trade credit finance lies in Indonesian banks’ continued inability or reluctance to lend. Most Indonesian banks continue to reel from two powerful disincentives to lend. The first is that most bank cash is now being invested in government-issued bonds. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Reel" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 71.03% of the time. "Reel" is used about 214 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 71.03% | 152 | 25,494 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 15.42% | 33 | 60,273 |
| Noun (proper) | 7.01% | 15 | 90,616 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 6.07% | 13 | 97,576 |
| Noun (common) | 0.47% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 214 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "reel" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Reel | Last name | 2,000 | 5,045 |
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Expressions using "reel": cotton reel ♦ counting reel ♦ film reel ♦ fishing reel ♦ hose reel ♦ inertia reel ♦ Log reel ♦ magnetic tape reel ♦ make reel ♦ off the reel ♦ payoff reel ♦ reel back ♦ reel in ♦ reel of cotton ♦ reel off ♦ reel out ♦ reel oven ♦ reel up ♦ scotch reel ♦ Scottish reel ♦ spinning reel ♦ Virginia reel ♦ warp reel ♦ wind on a reel ♦ wrap reel. Additional references. | |
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Beginning with "reel": reel-appeal, reel-cutter, reel-to-reel, reel-to-reels. | |
Ending with "reel": reel-to-reel. | |
Containing "reel": inertia-reel seat-belt. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
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fly reel | 1,115 | reel movie | 107 |
fishing reel | 995 | mitchell reel | 100 |
penn reel | 779 | reel lawn mower | 88 |
reel big fish | 773 | daiwa reel | 87 |
reel | 600 | cable reel | 87 |
hose reel | 447 | reel of film | 80 |
reel mowers | 301 | quantum fishing reel | 79 |
shimano reel | 289 | ross reel | 78 |
reel mower | 185 | fishing rod and reel | 77 |
garden hose reel | 184 | abu garcia reel | 75 |
penn fishing reel | 174 | pinnacle reel | 75 |
big fish lyrics reel | 164 | fishing reel part | 73 |
solar cover reel | 156 | antique fishing reel | 71 |
fly fishing reel | 156 | mitchell fishing reel | 70 |
shimano fishing reel | 132 | badge reel | 69 |
quantum reel | 122 | shakespeare fishing reel | 69 |
rod and reel | 119 | reel player | 64 |
reel to reel | 116 | air hose reel | 64 |
shakespeare reel | 113 | spinning reel | 62 |
okuma reel | 108 | okuma fishing reel | 61 |
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| Language | Translations for "reel"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | rrotull (about, around, bobbin, coil, drum, pulley, roll, sheave), rrotkë, rrokel, qerthull (pound, spinning wheel, vortex, whorl), bobinë (bobbin, cartridge, cassette, coil, roll, spool, winding), lëkundem (dangle, falter, halt, hang, hesitate, jolt, jumble, nod, nutate, oscillate, pendulate, rock, shake, shift, stagger, sway, swing, totter, vacillate, vibrate, wabble, wallow, wamble, waver, wobble), lëkundje (backlash, dancing, fluctuation, hesitance, hesitancy, hesitation, jarring, jolting, nutation, oscillation, pitch, quake, rolling, shake, shaking, shilly shally, shimmy, stagger, sway, swing, swinging, teeter, thrill, tossing, tremor, vacillation, vibrancy, vibration, wabble, wavering, wobble), lexoj shpejtë, makinetë, marramendje (dizziness, giddiness, swimming, vertigo), çikrik (bobbin, crab, drum, hoist, spinning wheel, spool, winch, windlass), nxjerr peshkun, tundje (agitation, beating, flourish, jar, jiggle, jog, joggle, jolt, jolting, misdoubt, nutation, oscillation, rumble-tumble, shake, shaking, shimmy, sway, swing, teeter, thrill, tossing, waddle, wag, waggle, wave, wiggle, wiggle-waggle), shtjellë (Eddy, swirl, vortex, whirlpool), tregoj shpejt, tundem (budge, dodder, jiggle, jumble, niddle-noddle, nod, nutate, oscillate, quake, rock, stagger, sway, swing, wabble, waddle, waggle, wamble, wobble), mbështjell (clothe, coil, encase, enfold, enlace, enshroud, envelop, enwrap, fold, inlace, involve, lap, mantle, muffle, nuzzle, overcast, reel up, roll, scarf, sheet, throw on, throw out, tuck up, twine, underpin, wind, wind on, wrap, wreathe). (various references) | |
Arabic | ملف (bobbin, coil, dossier, file, fold, folder, portfolio, spool, wrap), مسلكة (spool), لف على بكرة, لف (coil, cover, curl, encompass, enfold, envelop, enwrap, fold up, furl, infold, lap, roll up, rolling, spool, surround, swaddle, swathe, twine, twist, whirl, wind, winding, wrap, wrap up), حل الغزل, تمايل (bob, flexibility, lopsided, lurch, nod, roll, stagger, sway, swing, teeter, titubation, waver, weave, wobble), تهاوى (stagger), ترنح (beat about the bush, falter, feel groggy, grogginess, halt, limp, lurch, quiver, rock, roll, shake, stagger, stumble, teeter, titubation, totter, walk with a wobble, waver, weave, welter), سحب سمكة بصنارة, خيط بكرة, الريل رقصة اسكتلندية, بكرة خيطان. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | намотавам (convolve, lap, wind, wind up), политане, бобина (bobbin, coil, spool), бърз жив шотландски танц, люшкам (roll, sway, swing), залитам (falter, lurch, stagger, stumble along, topple), залитане (faltering, lurch, stumble), замаян съм, играя бърз шотландски танц, масур (cop, hasp, quill, spool), скрипец (block, crab, donkey engine, garnet, pulley), навивам на макара (spool), олюлявам (rock, stumble along, sway, teeter, topple), олюляване (sway), въртя се (circle, fidget, flutter, hover, pivot, shuffle, swirl, wheel, whirl), клатушкане (joggle, roll, stagger, totter, vacillation, wabble, wobble), точа (edge, grind, hone, roll out, set, sharpen, throw, whet), филмова лента (cine film), рамка за сушене на дрехи, макара (bobbin, garnet, pulley, quill, spool). (various references) | |
Chinese | 捲軸 , 卷轴. (various references) | |
Czech | role (part, role, roll), vrávorat (stagger), vířit (Eddy, spin, swirl, whir, whirl, whirr), potácet, navinout (reel in), naviják (rope-drum, winch, winder), namotávat, moták, kotouè (coil, disc, disk, roll, spool, swirl, wheel, whirl, wreath), filmový pás, cvrèet, cívka (bobbin, coil, cop, spool), špulka (spool). (various references) | |
Danish | rulle (roll), vinde (earn, gain, win), tromle (barrel *, bobbin, coiling drum *, cylinder, drum, hoisting reel, lifter, ring wheel, rope barrel *, rope drum *, section wheel, segment, spool, to barrel polish, tumble, tumbler, tumbling barrel, winding-reel), taendspole (coil), spole (bobbin, coil, drum, inductor, lifter, pirn, solenoid, spool, to cone, to reel, to spool, to wind, twist cop, warm cop, winder), haspe (hasp, whin, whisk), fiskehjul, centrifugalsigter (centrifugal sifter). (various references) | |
Dutch | rol (account book, character, cylinder, drum, list, part, record, register, role, roll, roller), vlakzeef (centrifugal sifter), trommel (can, drum, tin, tin can), spoel (bobbin, coil, spindle, spool), smalle rol (bobin, coil, roll), messenkooi (cutting cylinder), lierhaspel (hoisting reel, winding-reel), klos (bobbin, coil, spool), hijshaspel (hoisting reel, winding-reel), haspel (beater, coil, core, spool, tape spool, whin, whisk), bobine (bobbin, coil, spool). (various references) | |
Esperanto | deklami monotone (rattle off, reel off). (various references) | |
Farsi | یله رفتن (Stagger), پشت سرهم (Blowbyblow, Consecutive), متوالی (Consecutive, Continuous, Uninterrupted), مسلسل (Serial, Unbroke, Unbroken, Unceasing, Uninterrupted), ماسوره (Bobbin, Hank, Hasp, Spool), نخ پیچیده بدورقرقره , چرخیدن (Pivot, Revolve, Rollup, Rotate, Swing, Trill, Troll, Trundle, Turquoise, Twirl, Wheel, Whirl, Windmill, Wry), قرقره فیلم , گیج خوردن (Stagger), حلقه فیلم , تلوتلوخوردن (Dodder, Lurch, Stagger, Stumble, Teeter, Totter, Vacillate, Wobble). (various references) | |
Finnish | rulla (roll, roller), kela (capstan, coil, winch). (various references) | |
French | moulinet, dévidoir (cable reel), bobine. (various references) | |
German | Spule (bobbin, coil, quill, solenoid, spool), Rolle (bobbin, caster, Castor, coil, Crake, part, pulley, rôle, role, roll, roller, runner, scroll, skid), Haspel (bobbin, coil, spool, windlass). (various references) | |
Greek | καρούλι (trundle), μπομπίνα (bobbin, coil, dan leno bobbin, pirn, spool), ανέμη (spinning wheel). (various references) | |
Hebrew | מזרבה (coil, spool), מסתורית תוף (spool), לכרוך בסליל, להיות סחרחר, אשוה (spool), גליל (cylinder, roll, roller, spool), סליל (bobbin, coil, hank, spool). (various references) | |
Hungarian | tekercs (coil, convolution, furl, piece, roll, spool), orsó (Arbor, arbour, bobbin, coil, hanger, quill, roll, rotor, spindle, spool), cséve (cop, quill, spool), tántorgás (stagger, staggering), motolla (paddle, swift, windlass), henger (barrel, cylinder, dildo, roll, roller), filmtekercs (roll). (various references) | |
Icelandic | þylja upp (rattle off, reel off). (various references) | |
Indonesian | terayun-ayun (sway). (various references) | |
Italian | bobina (bobbin, coil, cop, solenoid, spool), rocchetto (bobbin, sprocket), mulinello (Eddy, swirl, tornado, whirlpool, whirlwind), aspo (whin, whisk). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 糸繰り (spinner), 糸枠 (spool), 綛 , リーマン幾何学 (reactance, reaction, reactor, real, realism, realist, realistic, reality, realtime, real-time system, rear, rear drive, rear engine, rear seat, rear window, Rias, Riemannian geometry), 巻 (volume), ふて腐れる (accidentally, aimlessly, by chance, casually, dizzy, limp, pooh!, soft, stagger, suddenly, to become irresponsible, to become sulky, totter, unexpectantly, unsteady on one's feet). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | リール , ふらふら (dizzy, stagger, totter, unsteady on one's feet), かせ (bonds, fetters, handcuffs, irons, shackles), かん (admiration, advise, appearance, best, building, can, cap, casket, coffin, cold season, coldest days of the year, crown, designating, diadem, emotion, emperor, encourage, farewell, feeling, first, free time, guesthouse, hall, heaven, hotel, house, impression, initiating on coming of age, inn, intuition, just, kan, leave, leisure, letter, look, love of peace, midwinter, naming, nerves, offer, peerless, perception, pipe, recommend, right, sensation, spare time, spectacle, strong, temper, the sixth sense, tin, top character radical, trunk, tube, volume, warship, writing brush), いとくり (spinner), いとわく (spool). (various references) | |
Korean | 권선. (various references) | |
Manx | togherys (pregnant, spool, wind, wind as clock, winding), rollian (axle tree, cylinder, penis, pulley, roller, roulette, shaft, sheave, spindle whorl, spool, troll, whirler, whirler of thing), reel, pern, loaganey (feel about, rock, stagger, waver, waver of troops), leaystey (balancing, bank, boggle, brandish, dangle, fluctuate, fluctuating, heel, hesitate, hesitating, hesitation, loll, lolling, oscillate, oscillation, reeling, rock, rocking, roll, see-saw, sway, swaying, swerve, swing, swing back, swinging, vacillate, vacillating, vacillation, waddle; wavering, waddling; fluctuation, wave, wave of hand, waver, waver of fixture), crossey (blacklist, cross, crucifixion, crucify, interdiction, thwart, veto), cron-toghrish (winder). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | eelray.(various references) | |
Portuguese | molinete (crab, drawing-machine, gin, hoist, pulley, turnstile, winch, windlass), bobina (coil, cop, roll, spool). (various references) | |
Romanian | rolã, vârtelniţã (winder, winding-frame), tremura (cower, dither, falter, flicker, palpitate, quail, quake, quaver, quiver, ripple, rock, shake, shiver, shudder, thrill, throb, tremble, vibrate, waver, wobble), tambur (cylinder, drum, drummer, roller, tambour), târâi (chirr, ring, trickle), se roti (Eddy, move, rotate, spin, whirl), se legãna (dangle, flap, nod, rock, sway, swing), se clãtina (falter, lurch, quake, shake, stagger, swerve, swing, totter, vacillate, waddle, waggle, wobble), se învârti (circumgyrate, go round, gyrate, mill, move, revolve, run, spin, spin round, swim, swirl, turn, twirl, wind), mulinetã, mosor (bobbin), horã (fuss, row, shindy), depãna (spin, wind), dans scoţian, bobinã (bobbin, coil, rap, roll, spool). (various references) | |
Russian | катушка (bobbin, coil, spool, swifts), бобина (bobbin, magazine), мотовило, наматывать (quill, reel up, reeling, wind, wind up), наматывать бобина, наматывать на катушку, намотать (wind), барабан (barrel, cylinder, drum, revolver, trommel), вертеться (hover, whirl), рулон (roll, web), колебание (backing and filling, demur, fluctuation, hesitance, hesitancy, hesitation, indecision, irresolution, jarring, oscillation, swing, teeter, vacillation, wave), кружиться (circle, spin, whirl), шпулька (pirn, quill, spool), шатание (vacillation), разматывать (uncoil, unreel, unwind, wind off), рулетка (roulette, roulette wheel, tape measure, tapeline, tape-line), вихрь (curl, maelstrom, merry go round, squall, swirl, twirl, vortex, whirl, whirlwind). (various references) | |
Scottish | ruithil (a reel), ruidhil (a yarn reel), eachan (horsie, reel for winding yarn). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | zateturati se (lurch, stagger), vrsta narodnog plesa, namotati (coil, reel up, wind), motovilo (capstan, winder, windlass), kalem (bobbin, coil, graft, helix, roll, spool, truncheon), brzo izgovoriti (rattle, rattle off, reel off). (various references) | |
Spanish | carrete (film, spool), bobina (bobbin, coil, role, roll, roller, spool). (various references) | |
Swedish | spole (bobbin, coil, curler, quill, roller, spool, winder), rulle (bobbin, bolt, coil, curler, hank, roll, zap). (various references) | |
Thai | เครื่องม้วน, โซเซ, หลอดด้าย (cop), ม้วนฟิล์ม, ม้วน (coil, furl, roll). (various references) | |
Turkish | sersemlemek (be giddy, become giddy, stagger), sendelemek (blunder, careen, dodder, falter, halt, lurch, pitch, stagger, stumble, swing, teeter, topple, totter, waver, wobble), sarmak (bandage, begird, beset, bind, bundle, cincture, clothe, coat, cocoon, coil, coil up, compass, do up, embrace, encircle, enclasp, encompass, enfold, enlace, entwine, entwist, envelop, enwrap, fold, fold up, furl, gird, hem about, hem around, hem in, infold, intwine, invest, involve, lap, overgrow, pack, reel up, robe, roll, roll up, sheet, smother in, stalk, strap, surround, swaddle, swathe, tuck in, tuck up, twine, twist, whirl, wind, wind up, wrap, wrap up), makaraya sarmak (quill, reel up, spool, wind on a reel), makaraya sarılmış şey, makara (block, bobbin, hasp, pulley, quill, roller, sheave, spool, truckle, whip), fırıl fırıl dönmek (Eddy, sleep, spin, spin round, swirl, twirl, whirl, whirl about, whirl round), dolamak (cincture, coil, coil up, enlace, enwrap, lap, reel up, rotate, twist, whip, whirl, wind, wrap), dönmek (abjure, apostatize, bear, budge from, call back, change one's mind, chop about, chop round, circle, come back, come home, deflect, face, front, get round, go back, go back on, gyrate, pivot, put about, recall, recant, regress, renege, repass, return, return to, revert, revolve, rotate, round, screw, sheer from, slew, slue, spin, swallow, swerve, swim, swing, switch, switch to, tumble, turn, turn back, turn one's coat, turn over, turn round, turn up, twist, veer, veer round, wheel, wheel about, wheel around, whirl), bobin (bobbin, coil, quill, roller, sheave, spiral, spool, winding), çiftlerin oynadığı bir iskoç dansı. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | рулон (roll), крутитися (circle, climb, flail, jib, pivot, slue, spin, wangle), котушка (barrel, bobbin, coil, swift), намотувати на котушку (quill), мотовило (bobbin-reel, winch, winder). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | trơn tru (clock, o'clock), sự quay cuồng sự lảo đảo, sự loạng choạng (titubation), liên tiếp (consecutive, continuous, continuously), liên tục (cease, consecutive, continual, continuous, continuously, endless, running, sequent, sequential, together, unceasing, unintermittent, unremitting), không gián đoạn, dây câu (fishing-line). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Old French | 900-1400 | gaucher. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Isaiah Chapter 24, Verse 20 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Eklinen kai seisqhsetai wV opwrofulakion h gh wV o mequwn kai kraipalwn kai peseitai kai ou mh dunhtai anasthnai katiscusen gar ep' authV h anomia |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Agitatione agitabitur terra sicut ebrius et auferetur quasi tabernaculum unius noctis et gravabit eam iniquitas sua et corruet et non adiciet ut resurgat |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | With to-brosing shal be to-brosid the lond, with to-stering shal be to-stired the erthe, with shaking shal be `to-shaken the erthe, as a drunken man. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | The earth shall reel to and fro like a drunkard, and shall be removed like a cottage; and the transgression thereof shall be heavy upon it; and it shall fall, and not rise again. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | The earth shall reel to and fro like a drunkard, and shall be removed like a cottage; and the transgression of it shall be heavy upon it; and it shall fall, and not rise again. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | The earth will be moving uncertainly, like a man overcome by drink; it will be shaking like a tent; and the weight of its sin will be on it, crushing it down so that it will not get up again. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Isaiah Chapter 24, Verse 20 |
| Cebuano | Ang yuta magasamparay sama sa usa ka tawo nga hubog, ug magatabyog ngadto-nganhi sama sa usa ka duyan; ug ang iyang kalapasan magabug-at sa ibabaw niini, ug mahulog kini, ug dili na mobakod pag-usab. |
| Croatian | zemlja æe zateturati poput pijanca, zanjihat se poput kolibe; toliko æe joj otežati bezakonje njeno da æe pasti i neæe više ustati. |
| Danish | Jorden raver og raver som drukken og svajer som Vogterens Hytte; tungt ligger dens Brøde på den, den segner og rejser sig ikke. |
| Dutch | De aarde zal ganselijk waggelen, gelijk een dronkaard, en zij zal heen en weder bewogen worden, gelijk een nachthut; en haar overtreding zal zwaar op haar zijn, en zij zal vallen, en niet weder opstaan. |
| Finnish | Maa hoippuu ja hoipertelee niinkuin juopunut, huojuu niinkuin lehvämaja. Raskaana painaa sitä sen rikkomus, se kaatuu eikä enää nouse. |
| French | La terre chancelle comme un homme ivre, Elle vacille comme une cabane; Son péché pèse sur elle, Elle tombe, et ne se relève plus. |
| German | Die Erde wird taumelm wie ein Trunkener und wird hin und her geworfen wie ein Hängebett; denn ihre Missetat drückt sie, daß sie fallen muß und kann nicht stehenbleiben. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Bola bumi terhuyung-huyung seperti orang mabuk, dan goyang seperti gubuk dalam badai. Bumi roboh karena berat dosanya. Ia hancur dan tak akan bangkit lagi. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Bumipun terhuyung-huyung seperti orang mabuk dan bergoncang-goncang seperti pondok tempat orang bermalam; karena beratlah kesalahannya menindih kepadanya, sehingga ia rebah dan tiada dapat bangkit pula. |
| Italian | Certo, barcollerà la terra come un ubriaco, vacillerà come una tenda; peserà su di essa la sua iniquità, cadrà e non si rialzerà. |
| Maori | Hurorirori kau te whenua ano he haurangi, nekenekehia ana, me te mea he whare tira; ka taimaha iho hoki tona he ki runga ki a ia, ka hinga, heoi ano ona aranga ake. |
| Norwegian | Jorden skal rave som den drukne og svinges hit og dit som en hengekøi, og dens misgjerning skal gynge på den, og den skal falle og ikke reise sig mere. |
| Portuguese | A terra cambaleia como o ébrio, e balanceia como a rede de dormir; e a sua transgressão se torna pesada sobre ela, e ela cai, e nunca mais se levantará. |
| Rumanian | pqmkntul se clatinq ca un om beat, tremurq ca o colibq; pqcatul lui kl apasq, cade, wi nu se mai ridicq. |
| Russian | ЫБФБЕФУС ЪЕНМС, ЛБЛ РШСОЩК, Й ЛБЮБЕФУС, ЛБЛ ЛПМЩВЕМШ, Й ВЕЪЪБЛПОЙЕ ЕЕ ФСЗПФЕЕФ ОБ ОЕК; ПОБ ХРБДЕФ, Й ХЦЕ ОЕ ЧУФБОЕФ. |
| Swedish | jorden raglar, ja, den raglar såsom en drucken; den gungar såsom vaktskjulet i trädets topp. Dess överträdelse vilar tung på den, och den faller och kan icke mer stå upp. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "reel": reelable, reelect, reelected, reelecting, reelection, reelections, reelects, reeled, reeler, reelers, reeligibilities, reeligibility, reeligible, reeling, reels. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "reel": creel, newsreel, streel, unreel. (additional references) | |
Words containing "reel": creeled, creeling, creels, freelance, freelanced, freelancer, freelancers, freelances, freelancing, freeload, freeloaded, freeloader, freeloaders, freeloading, freeloads, freely, newsreels, preelect, preelected, preelecting, preelection, preelections, preelectric, preelects, streeled, streeling, streels, treelawn, treelawns, treeless, treelike, unreeled, unreeler, unreelers, unreeling, unreels. (additional references) | |
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"Reel" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: areel, Breuel, erel, erele, Ergel, Erkel, erol, greel, kriel, oreel, rael, Rahel, ralee, raol, Rayle, razel, Reala, reall, realo, realp, recel, recell, redl, reeb, reeg, reeh, reej, reele, reellm, reely, Reem, reep, reer, reev, reew, reez, Refelt, regell, reil, reje, rejel, rel, rele, Relea, relef, relei, reler, relm, reln, relo, relp, relq, Remel, Reml, renel, repl, req, retel, Reuel, Reuil, reul, reuo, Rewell, rewl, rezeil, rheel, rhel, Riegel, Riehl, riel, riele, ritel, roel, Roell, romel, rorl, ruel, rwell, ryel, ryl, treel, urel, wreel. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "reel" (pronounced rē"l) |
| 3 | r ē" l | creel, puerile, real, riel, unreal. |
| 2 | -ē" l | abele, anneal, appeal, conceal, congeal, corneal, deal, diel, eel, feel, genteel, heal, heel, ideal, spiel, squeal, steal, steel, surreal, teal, teel, keel, kneel, Leal, meal, ordeal, peal, Peel, repeal, reseal, reveal, seal, Seel, Shiel, unseal, veal, wheel, zeal. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: leer. | |
| Words within the letters "e-e-l-r" | |
-1 letter: eel, ere, lee, ree. | |
-2 letters: el, er, re. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-e-l-r" | |
+1 letter: creel, elder, elver, fleer, laree, leers, leery, leger, leper, lever, merle, rebel, reels, refel, relet, repel, revel. | |
+2 letters: areole, belier, belter, ceiler, celery, cereal, clever, creels, crenel, creole, crewel, dealer, delver, dueler, eelier, eerily, elater, elders, elmier, eloper, eluder, elvers, eviler, feeler, feller, ferlie, ferrel, ferule, fleers, freely, fueler, galere, gelder, healer, heeler, heller, helper, kegler, kelter, kernel, larees, laveer, leader, leaker, leaner, leaper, leaser, leaver, lecher, ledger, leered, lefter, legers, lender, lepers, lesser, letter, levers, levier, lewder, lieder, liefer, lierne, liever, melder, melter, merely, merles, mewler, pedler, peeler, pelter, petrel, realer, reales, rebels, reddle, redleg, reeled, reeler, refeel, refell, refels, refelt, refile, reflet, reflew, reflex, refuel, regale, reglet, reglue, reheel, relace, relate, relend, relent, relets, releve, relied, relief, relier, relies, reline, relive, relume, remelt, repeal, repels, repled, resale, reseal, resell, resile, resole, retell, retile, reveal, revels, revile, reweld, sealer, seller, streel, telfer, teller, tercel, treble, unreel, vealer, veiler, velure, welder, welter, yeller, yelper. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
