Meaning

7 senses
  1. A shaky or unsteady gait.

  2. A lively dance originating in Scotland.

    рилril

    a lively dance of Scottish Highlanders; marked by circular moves and gliding steps

  3. The music of this dance; often called a Scottish (or Scotch) reel.

    music composed for dancing a reel

  4. A kind of spool, turning on an axis, on which yarn, threads, lines, or the like, are wound.

    a log reel

    an angler's reel

    Spule, Trommel

    боби́наbobína, кату́шкаkatúška, шпу́лькаšpúlʹka

  5. 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.

    Haspel

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

    Demoband

    тре́йлерtréjler

  7. (capitalized, sometimes)A chronological collection of pictures or short videos published by a user on an app or website and typically only available for a short period.

Examples

17 sentences
  1. I only watched the highlight reel.

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  2. He reeled in a huge fish yesterday.

    ruВчера он вытянул из воды большую рыбу. — Ooneykcall

    deGestern hat er einen großen Fisch aus dem Wasser gezogen. — Pfirsichbaeumchen

  3. The cat unravelled the reel of cotton.

    deDie Katze wickelte das Garn von der Rolle. — Yorwba

  4. My chess mate has left you reeling?

  5. My punch sent him reeling into the rope.

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Translations

6 languages
Русский
By meaning 3
dance, music:
spool:
compilation of film:
Deutsch
By meaning 3
spool:
device for a harvesting machine:
compilation of film:

Origin

From Middle English reel, reele, from Old English rēol, hrēol, from Proto-West Germanic *h

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.

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Forms

plural: reels
Singularreel
Pluralreels

regular

Synonyms

7 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • a lively dance of Scottish Highlanders; marked by circular moves and gliding steps:Scottish reel
  • an American country dance which starts with the couples facing each other in two lines:Virginia reel
  • a winder around which thread or tape or film or other flexible materials can be wound:bobbinspool

Word family

25 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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