English Dictionary

unspool

動詞

俗語

To remove (film, cotton, etc.) from a spool; unwind. / (aviation) To reduce the thrust of a jet engine to idle in flight. / (slang) To screen a film. / To flow forth, unfold, or play out.

日本語の意味

糸巻きやフィルムなどから巻き取り、巻きを解く / 航空において、飛行中にジェットエンジンの推力をアイドリング状態に下げる / （俗語）映画を上映する / 流れ出す、展開する、または再生される

Please unspool the film carefully to avoid creases.

しわができないように、フィルムをスプールから慎重に引き出してください。

意味（1）

To remove (film, cotton, etc.) from a spool; unwind.

Next, unspool twenty cubits of the thin silver wire thread and cut this length in half. If you have less than twenty cubits, unspool all you have, and cut it in two equal parts.

意味（2）

(aviation) To reduce the thrust of a jet engine to idle in flight.

During this 14-second period, the airplane accelerated to about 173 KIAS, and the first officer retarded the throttles. By 1805:15, despite the instructions in the Delta L-1011 Pilot Operating Manual (POM), which states, “do not unspool the engines,” all three engines were either at, or very near, flight idle EPR and remained at that thrust level until 1805:22.

意味（3）

(slang) To screen a film.

Let all the films of Keaton and Wenders unspool blackly across your mind like the negative of the white line still unspooling down a road in God's imagination, long after the end of his road movie of the end of the world.

意味（4）

To flow forth, unfold, or play out.

The landscape and the living figures of that summer, as in some umber-smeared snapshot found in the brittle black pages of an old album, had become more dusty and indistinct as time for me unspooled with negligent haste into my own middle age, yet that summer's agony still cried out for explanation.

意味（5）

To lose or cause to lose one's composure; to fall apart.

Normally, the worse a situation got, the calmer and more efficient Kelly became. But not this time. This was so bizarre, her mind unspooled.

意味（6）

To relax; to unwind.

After that, he felt exhausted— but unspooled inside— and drove to his Wilshire Boulevard home.

unspools （ present singular third-person ）

unspooling （ participle present ）

unspooled （ participle past ）

unspooled （ past ）