English Online Dictionary. What means reel? What does reel mean?
English
Etymology
From Middle English reel, reele, from Old English rēol, hrēol, from Proto-West Germanic *hrehul, from Proto-Germanic *hrehulaz, *hrahilaz, from Proto-Indo-European *krek- (“to weave, beat”). Cognate with Icelandic ræl, hræll.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɹiːl/, /ˈɹiːəl/
- Homophone: real (some accents)
- Rhymes: -iːl, -iːəl
Noun
reel (plural reels)
- A shaky or unsteady gait.
- (dance) A lively dance originating in Scotland.
- (music) The music of this dance; often called a Scottish (or Scotch) reel.
- A kind of spool, turning on an axis, on which yarn, threads, lines, or the like, are wound.
- (agriculture) A device consisting of radial arms with horizontal stats, connected with a harvesting machine, for holding the stalks of grain in position to be cut by the knives.
- (film) A short compilation of sample film work used as a demonstrative resume in the entertainment industry.
- Synonym: showreel
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
reel (third-person singular simple present reels, present participle reeling, simple past and past participle reeled)
- To wind on a reel.
- To spin or revolve repeatedly.
- To unwind; to bring or acquire something by spinning or winding something else.
- To walk shakily or unsteadily; to stagger; move as if drunk or not in control of oneself.
- (with back) To back off, step away, or sway backwards unsteadily and suddenly.
- To make or cause to reel.
- To have a whirling sensation; to be giddy.
- 1927-29, M.K. Gandhi, The Story of My Experiments with Truth, translated 1940 by Mahadev Desai, Part I, Chapter xi:
- The high school had a send-off in my honour. It was an uncommon thing for a young man of Rajkot to go to England. I had written out a few words of thanks. But I could scarcely stammer them out. I remember how my head reeled and how my whole frame shook as I stood up to read them.
- (figurative, especially as "be reeling") To be in shock.
- To produce a mechanical insect-like song, as in grass warblers.
- (obsolete) To roll.
- (figurative) To bring in or along.
Derived terms
Translations
References
Anagrams
- Erle, LREE, leer
Atong (India)
Etymology
Borrowed from English rail, from Middle English rail, rayl, partly from Old English regol (“a ruler, straight bar”) and partly from Old French reille; both from Latin regula (“rule, bar”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /reːl/
Noun
reel (Bengali script রেঽল)
- rains
- train
- stud (of a fence)
References
- van Breugel, Seino. 2015. Atong-English dictionary, second edition. Available online: https://www.academia.edu/487044/Atong_English_Dictionary.
Danish
Etymology 1
Borrowed from French réel (“real”), from Medieval Latin reālis (“actual”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /rɛɛl/, [ʁɛˈɛlˀ], [ʁeˈɛlˀ]
Adjective
reel
- real, proper
- reliable, trustworthy, honest (about a person)
- (mathematics) real (being a real number)
Inflection
Etymology 2
Borrowed from English reel.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /riːl/, [ʁiːˀl], [ʁiːl], [ɹiːl]
Noun
reel c (singular definite reelen, plural indefinite reeler)
- (dance) reel
Inflection
Romanian
Adjective
reel m or n (feminine singular reelă, masculine plural reeli, feminine and neuter plural reele)
- Obsolete form of real.
Declension
References
- reel in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN
Turkish
Etymology
From French réel, from Latin reālis.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɾeæ̯l/
Adjective
reel
- real
- Synonym: gerçek
Related terms
- realite