Spool vs. Spoor — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Spool and Spoor
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Definitions
Spool
A cylinder of wood, plastic, cardboard, or other material on which wire, thread, or string is wound.
Spoor
The track or trail of an animal or person.
Spool
The amount of wire, thread, or string wound on such a cylinder.
Spoor
The footprints or other signs left by an animal or person, considered as a group
Found fresh spoor.
Spool
Something similar to such a cylinder in shape or function.
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Spoor
To track (an animal or person) by following the spoor.
Spool
A reel for magnetic tape.
Spoor
The track, trail, droppings or scent of an animal.
Spool
To wind or be wound on or off a spool.
Spoor
(transitive) To track an animal by following its spoor
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Spool
To store (data sent to a printer) in a buffer, allowing the program that sent the data to the printer to resume its normal operation.
Spoor
The track or trail of any wild animal; as, the spoor of an elephant; - used originally by travelers in South Africa.
Spool
A reel; a device around which thread, wire or cable is wound, especially a cylinder or spindle.
Spoor
To follow a spoor or trail.
Spool
(aviation) One of the rotating assemblies of a gas turbine engine, composed of one or more turbine stages, a shaft, and one or more compressor or fan stages.
The high-pressure spool rotates faster than the intermediate- and low-pressure spools, as the high-pressure turbine is driven by superheated combustion gases straight out of the burners, while the high-pressure compressor has to spin very fast to compress air that has already been compressed and heated by the low- and intermediate-pressure compressors.
Spoor
The trail left by a person or an animal; what the hunter follows in pursuing game;
The hounds followed the fox's spoor
Spool
(computing) A temporary storage area for electronic mail, etc.
Spool
A small swimming pool that can be used also as a spa.
Spool
To wind on a spool or spools.
Spool
(computing) To send files to a device or a program (a spooler or a daemon that puts them in a queue for processing at a later time).
Spool
A piece of cane or reed with a knot at each end, or a hollow cylinder of wood with a ridge at each end, used to wind thread or yarn upon.
Spool
To wind on a spool or spools.
Spool
A winder around which thread or tape or film or other flexible materials can be wound
Spool
Transfer data intended for a peripheral device (usually a printer) into temporary storage
Spool
Wind onto a spool or a reel
