Definitions for Reel

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Reel reel

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IPA: /ril/

Reel is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 4 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 5 points.

You can make 20 anagrams from letters in Reel (eelr).

Definitions for Reel

noun

1. a cylinder, frame, or other device that turns on an axis and is used to wind up or pay out something.
2. a rotatory device attached to a fishing rod at the butt, for winding up or letting out the line.
3. Photography. a spool on which film, especially motion-picture film, is wound. a roll of motion-picture film. a holder for roll film in a developing tank.
4. a quantity of something wound on a reel.
5. Chiefly British. a spool of sewing thread; a roller or bobbin of sewing thread.
6. an act of reeling; a reeling or staggering movement.
7. a lively Scottish dance.
8. Virginia reel.
9. music for either of these dances.

Idioms

1. off the reel, without pause; continuously. without delay or hesitation; immediately. Also, right off the reel.

Verb phrases

1. reel off, to say, write, or produce quickly and easily:

verb (used with object)

1. to wind on a reel, as thread, yarn, etc.
2. to unwind (silk filaments) from a cocoon.
3. to pull or draw by winding a line on a reel:
4. to cause to reel.

verb (used without object)

1. to sway or rock under a blow, shock, etc.:
2. to waver or fall back:
3. to sway about in standing or walking, as from dizziness, intoxication, etc.; stagger.
4. to turn round and round; whirl.
5. to have a sensation of whirling:

Origin of Reel

before 1050; (noun) Middle English rele, Old English hrēol; cognate with Old Norse hræll weaver's rod; (v.) Middle English relen, derivative of rele

Examples for Reel

It flung away from him, the wire screaming from the reel behind it.

reel retraces his life and work with the spirit of curiosity and adventure that drove du Chaillu in the first place.

Hollywood lost their reel queen last night after the premiere night of Burlesque.

Rosenthal filmed the group as they went about their daily lives and pitched the reel to several networks.

In fact, Sayles was a prize-winning fiction writer before he ever penned a screenplay or shot a reel of film.

I felt like I was watching a reel of my own life—or at least my past—and I finished the entire season in one sitting.

There was a reel and there were sound-speakers to keep the ship from sounding like a grave.

Guide it to its place with the thumb, and run it from side to side of the reel like cotton on a spool.

But Pa had a sister who was reel good-lookin', an' some says you've got her eyes.

I reel in whenever practicable and kill the fish on the line.