Virginia reel
reel | an American country dance which starts with the couples facing each other in two lines |
reel
Scottish reel | a lively dance of Scottish Highlanders, marked by circular moves and gliding steps |
bobbin
spool
reel | a winder around which thread or tape or film or other flexible materials can be wound |
| cable | a very strong thick rope made of twisted hemp or steel wire |
cable cable television
cable system
cable television service | a television system that transmits over cables |
| cable line transmission line | a conductor for transmitting electrical or optical signals or electric power |
cable car
car | a conveyance for passengers or freight on a cable railway, they took a cable car to the top of the mountain |
cable railway
funicular
funicular railway | a railway up the side of a mountain pulled by a moving cable and having counterbalancing ascending and descending cars |
coaxial cable
coax
coax cable | a transmission line for high-frequency signals |
| electrical cable | a cable that provides an electrical connection for telephone or television or power stations |
| ethernet cable | any of several types of coaxial cable used in ethernets |
fiber optic cable
fibre optic cable | a cable made of optical fibers that can transmit large amounts of information at the speed of light |
| ground cable | a mooring cable, runs from a buoy to a mooring anchor |
guy
guy cable
guy wire
guy rope | a cable, wire, or rope that is used to brace something (especially a tent) |
jumper cable
jumper lead
lead booster cable | a jumper that consists of a short piece of wire, it was a tangle of jumper cables and clip leads |
power line
power cable | cable used to distribute electricity |
| printer cable | a cable between a computer and a printer |
| reel | winder consisting of a revolving spool with a handle, attached to a fishing rod |
| reel | a roll of photographic film holding a series of frames to be projected by a movie projector |
tramway tram aerial tramway
cable tramway
ropeway | a conveyance that transports passengers or freight in carriers suspended from cables and supported by a series of towers |
cable
cablegram
overseas telegram | a telegram sent abroad |
cable television
cable | television that is transmitted over cable directly to the receiver |
| reel | music composed for dancing a reel |
cable
cable length
cable's length | a nautical unit of depth |
rattle down
rattle off
reel off
spiel off
roll off | recite volubly or extravagantly, He could recite the names of all the chemical elements |
cable
telegraph
wire | send cables, wires, or telegrams |
| cable | fasten with a cable, cable trees |
| reel | wind onto or off a reel |
reel off
unreel | unwind from or as if from a reel, unreel the tape |
stagger
reel
keel
lurch swag careen | walk as if unable to control one's movements, The drunken man staggered into the room |
spin spin around
whirl reel gyrate | revolve quickly and repeatedly around one's own axis, The dervishes whirl around and around without getting dizzy |