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How to pronounce reel in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms virginia reel
Type of longways, longways dance
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Synonyms gyrate, spin, spin around, whirl
Type of go around, rotate, revolve
Has types whirligig
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Synonyms scottish reel
Type of square dancing, square dance
Has types eightsome, highland fling
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Synonyms careen, keel, lurch, stagger, swag
Type of walk
Derivation reeler
Type Words
Synonyms bobbin, spool
Type of winder
Has types shuttle, filature
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Type of film, photographic film
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Type of dance music
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Type of winder
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Type of wrap, roll, twine, wind
Has types reel off, unreel

Examples of reel

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Despite a four-win season, London was able to reel in eight four-star prospects.
From the sportsillustrated.cnn.com
Oh sure, Brumbaugh had a few highlight-reel plays again and threw for 276 yards.
From the post-gazette.com
What is a dream but a reel of images you can only see when your eyes are closed?
From the guardian.co.uk
There is reel after reel of rope, numerous tools and piles of orange tarpaulins.
From the au.news.yahoo.com
What center is ever featured in a highlights reel unless he makes a big mistake?
From the theatlantic.com
He's looking like his YouTube highlight reel from his high school days in Texas.
From the freep.com
He later bagged a 17-foot-long, 3,427-pound great white by rod and reel in 1986.
From the denverpost.com
That means they can't readily be captured with traditional rod-and-reel methods.
From the sciencedaily.com
Even when he struggled, Prather was good for the occasional highlight-reel dunk.
From the orlandosentinel.com
More examples
  • A roll of photographic film holding a series of frames to be projected by a movie projector
  • Stagger: walk as if unable to control one's movements; "The drunken man staggered into the room"
  • Music composed for dancing a reel
  • Spin: revolve quickly and repeatedly around one's own axis; "The dervishes whirl around and around without getting dizzy"
  • Wind onto or off a reel
  • Winder consisting of a revolving spool with a handle; attached to a fishing rod
  • A reel is an object around which lengths of another material (usually long and flexible) are wound for storage. Generally a reel has a cylindrical core and walls on the sides to retain the material wound around the core. ...
  • The reel is a folk dance type as well as the accompanying dance tune type. In Scottish country dancing, the reel is one of the four traditional dances, the others being the jig, the strathspey and the waltz, and is also the name of a dance figure (see below).
  • Reel was a thoroughbred race horse, and one of the greatest American Thoroughbred broodmares in history.