different between reel vs spoon

English

Etymology

From Middle English reel, reele, from Old English r?ol, hr?ol, from Proto-Germanic *hrehulaz, from Proto-Indo-European *krek- (“to weave, beat”). Cognate with Icelandic ræl, hræl.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?i?l/
• Homophone: real (some accents)
• Rhymes: -i?l

Noun

reel (plural reels)

1. A shaky or unsteady gait.
   • 2010, Andrew Koppelman, The Gay Rights Question in Contemporary American Law (page 92)

     Doubtless the present game of chess was developed through just such fiddling; perhaps someone once thought that the drunken reel of the knight was hostile to the essence of Chess.

2. A lively dance originating in Scotland; also, the music of this dance; often called a Scottish (or Scotch) reel.
3. A kind of spool, turning on an axis, on which yarn, threads, lines, or the like, are wound.

   a log reel, used by seamen

   an angler's reel

   a garden reel

   nudge the fruit machine reel

4. (textiles) A machine on which yarn is wound and measured into lays and hanks, —-- for cotton or linen it is fifty-four inches in circuit; for worsted, thirty inches.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of McElrath to this entry?)

5. (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.
6. (film) A short compilation of sample film work used as a demonstrative resume in the entertainment industry.

   Synonym: showreel

Derived terms

• hose reel, hosereel
• newsreel

Translations

Verb

reel (third-person singular simple present reels, present participle reeling, simple past and past participle reeled)

1. To wind on a reel.
2. To spin or revolve repeatedly.
3. To unwind, to bring or acquire something by spinning or winding something else.

   He reeled off some tape from the roll and sealed the package.

4. To walk shakily or unsteadily; to stagger; move as if drunk or not in control of oneself.
   • 1770, Oliver Goldsmith, The Deserted Village

     the wagons reeling under the yellow sheaves

   • 1996, Janette Turner Hospital, Oyster, Virago Press, paperback edition, page 111

     Sarah reels a little, nevertheless, under the dog's boisterous greeting.

5. (with back) To back off or step away unsteadily and quickly.

   He reeled back from the punch.

6. To make or cause to reel.
7. To have a whirling sensation; to be giddy.

   • In these lengthened vigils his brain often reeled.

   • 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.

8. To be in shock.
   • 2012 October 31, David M. Halbfinger, "[2]," New York Times (retrieved 31 October 2012):

     New Jersey was reeling on Wednesday from the impact of Hurricane Sandy, which has caused catastrophic flooding here in Hoboken and in other New York City suburbs, destroyed entire neighborhoods across the state and wiped out iconic boardwalks in shore towns that had enchanted generations of vacationgoers.

9. To produce a mechanical insect-like song, as in grass warblers.
10. (obsolete) To roll.

Derived terms

• reel in
• reel off

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): /re?l/

Noun

reel (Bengali script ????)

1. rains
2. train
3. 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 re?lis (“actual”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /r??l/, [????l?], [?e??l?]

Adjective

reel

1. real, proper
2. reliable, trustworthy, honest (about a person)

Inflection

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English reel.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ri?l/, [?i??l], [?i?l], [?i?l]

Noun

reel c (singular definite reelen, plural indefinite reeler)

1. (dance) reel

Inflection

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: spo?on
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /spu?n/
  • (General American) IPA^(key): /spun/
• Rhymes: -u?n

Etymology 1

From Middle English spoon, spoune, spone, spon (“spoon, chip of wood”), from Old English sp?n (“sliver, chip of wood, shaving”), from Proto-Germanic *sp?nuz (“chip, flake, shaving”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)peh?- (“chip, shaving, log, length of wood”).

Cognate with Scots spun, spon (“spoon, shingle”), West Frisian spoen, Dutch spaan (“chip, flinders”), German Span (“chip, flake, shaving”), Faroese spónur (“wood chip; spoon”), Ancient Greek ???? (sph?n, “wedge”). Eclipsed non-native Middle English cuculer and coclear (“spoon”) both ultimately borrowed from the Latin.

The "unit of energy" semse was coined by writer, speaker and lupus patient advocate Christine Miserandino in 2003.

Noun

spoon (plural spoons)

1. An implement for eating or serving; a scooped utensil whose long handle is straight, in contrast to a ladle.
2. An implement for stirring food while being prepared; a wooden spoon.
3. A measure that will fit into a spoon; a spoonful.
4. (golf, archaic) A wooden-headed golf club with moderate loft, similar to the modern three wood.
5. (slang) An oar.
   • 1877, The Country (volumes 1-2, page 339)

     To this class college rowing offers no attractions or place, nor are they generally looked upon by the artists of the "spoons" as a desirable addition […]

6. (fishing) A type of metal lure resembling the concave head of a tablespoon.
7. (dentistry, informal) A spoon excavator.
8. (figuratively, slang, archaic) A simpleton, a spooney.
   • 1872, George Eliot, Middlemarch, Chapter 23

     To get all the advantages of being with men of this sort, you must know how to draw your inferences and not be a spoon who takes things literally.

9. (US, military) A safety handle on a hand grenade, a trigger.
10. (slang) A metaphoric unit of energy available for daily activities.

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

spoon (third-person singular simple present spoons, present participle spooning, simple past and past participle spooned)

1. To serve using a spoon; to transfer (something) with a spoon.
2. (intransitive, dated) To flirt; to make advances; to court, to interact romantically or amorously.
   • 1913, D.H. Lawrence, Sons and Lovers, chapter 7

     Do you think we spoon and do? We only talk.

3. (transitive or intransitive, informal, of persons) To lie nestled front-to-back, following the contours of the bodies, in a manner reminiscent of stacked spoons.
   • 1905 "If the Man in the Moon were a Coon"

     No roaming 'round the park at night / No spooning in the bright moonlight

4. (tennis, golf, croquet) To hit (the ball) weakly, pushing it with a lifting motion, instead of striking with an audible knock.
5. (intransitive) To fish with a concave spoon bait.
6. (transitive) To catch by fishing with a concave spoon bait.
   • 1888, Mrs. Humphry Ward, Robert Elsmere

     He had with him all the tackle necessary for spooning pike.

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• cutlery
• ladle
• silverware

Etymology 2

Origin uncertain. Compare spoom.

Verb

spoon (third-person singular simple present spoons, present participle spooning, simple past and past participle spooned)

1. Alternative form of spoom

   • We might have spooned before the wind as well as they.

Derived terms

• spoon-drift

Translations

Anagrams

• Poons, no-ops, opson, poons, snoop

Middle English

Noun

spoon

1. Alternative form of spone