unspool

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. fiil 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.”

2. fiil To reduce the thrust of a jet engine to idle in flight.
3. fiil To play; to be screened.

   “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.”

4. fiil 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.”

5. fiil 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.”

6. fiil To relax or become relaxed; to unwind.

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