reel

reel
[ri:l] 1. noun
1) (a round wheel-shaped or cylindrical object of wood, metal etc on which thread, film, fishing-lines etc can be wound: a reel of sewing-cotton; He changed the reel in the projector.) rolo
2) ((the music for) a type of lively Scottish, Irish or American dance: The fiddler played a reel; to dance a reel.) quadrilha
2. verb
(to stagger; to sway; to move in an unsteady way: The drunk man reeled along the road; My brain was reeling with all the information that he gave me.) cambalear
- reel off
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reel1
[ri:l] n 1 carretel, sarilho, bobina. 2 molinete (de linha de pescar). 3 tambor. 4 torniquete. 5 dobadoura. • vt 1 bobinar, enrolar em carretel ou bobina. 2 dobar. 3 filmar. off the reel Amer coll continuamente, sem interrupção. reel of the log Naut carretel da barquilha. reel-to-reel de carretel, que é enrolado de um carretel para outro. to reel in enrolar. to reel off a) desenrolar. b) repetir de memória, falar ou escrever fluentemente. to reel up a fish pescar com vara de carretel.
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reel2
[ri:l] n movimento vacilante ou cambaleante. • vt+vi 1 vacilar, cambalear. 2 andar de modo cambaleante, vacilante. 3 oscilar, balançar.
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reel3
[ri:l] n 1 dança escocesa (Scotch reel) ou americana (Virginia reel). 2 a respectiva música. • vt dançar o reel.

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  • Reel — (r[=e]l), n. [AS. hre[ o]l: cf. Icel. hr[ae]ll a weaver s reed or sley.] 1. A frame with radial arms, or a kind of spool, turning on an axis, on which yarn, threads, lines, or the like, are wound; as, a log reel, used by seamen; an angler s reel; …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

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  • Reel —   [englisch, ri:l], Bezeichnung für einen alten englischen Volkstanz in geradem, meist 4/4 , seltener 2/4 oder 6/4 Takt mit lebhaftem Charakter. Das jeweils erste Viertel im Takt ist betont. Verbreitung fand er auch in Schottland und Irland. Eine …   Universal-Lexikon

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