Crossword-Solution: SPOOLING 8 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 11

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Spooling p. pr. & vb. n. of Spool

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An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
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eruption
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Sentences with SPOOLING (5)

For example, under {{ITS}} writing a file on the {LPT} spooler's directory would invoke the spooling daemon, which would then print the file.
The Jargon File, Version 2.9.10, 01 Jul 1992 Various 1992
Some early UNIX systems at Bell Labs used GCOS machines for print spooling and various other services; the field added to `/etc/passwd' to carry GCOS ID information was called the `GECOS field' and survives today as the `pw_gecos' member used for the user's full name and other human-ID information.
The Jargon File, Version 2.9.10, 01 Jul 1992 Various 1992
Especially used in circumstances where spooling the data copes with a mismatch between speeds in two devices or pieces of software.
The Jargon File, Version 2.9.10, 01 Jul 1992 Various 1992
For example, under ITS writing a file on the LPT spooler's directory would invoke the spooling daemon, which would then print the file.
The New Hacker's Dictionary version 4.2.2 Various editors 2002
Some early Unix systems at Bell Labs used GCOS machines for print spooling and various other services; the field added to /etc/passwd to carry GCOS ID information was called the `GECOS field' and survives today as the pw_gecos member used for the user's full name and other human-ID information.
The New Hacker's Dictionary version 4.2.2 Various editors 2002

Quotes with SPOOLING (2)

There's pathos in this familiar routine, in the sounds of homely objects touching surfaces. And in the little sigh she makes when she turns or slightly bends our unwieldy form. It's already clear to me how much of life is forgotten even as it happens. Most of it. The unregarded present spooling away from us, the soft tumble of unremarkable thoughts, the long-neglected miracle of existence. When she's no longer twenty-eight and pregnant and beautiful, or even free, she won't r…
Ian McEwan Nutshell
... he is thinking about thoughts; so many thoughts piled up, such a quantity of half-remembered knowledge, so many emotions brought up from the well to spill out: the unrolling of history - a river into which you can't step twice, a collection of biographies end to end, a hilltop to survey the surrounding plains and so on - but also, more so, the anxieties prompted by the spooling of time and the awareness of its unstoppable nature; and random thoughts...
Justin Cartwright
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Appears in: LAT, NYT.

Used 2 times in crossword archives (2001–2004).