Difference between Careen and Reel

What is the difference between Careen and Reel?

Careen as a verb is to heave a ship down on one side so as to expose the other, in order to clean it of barnacles and weed, or to repair it below the water line. while Reel as a verb is to wind on a reel.

Careen

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To heave a ship down on one side so as to expose the other, in order to clean it of barnacles and weed, or to repair it below the water line. To tilt on one side. To lurch or sway violently from side to side. To tilt or lean while in motion. To career.

Reel

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A lively dance of the Highlanders of Scotland; also, the music to the dance; -- often called Scotch reel.A frame with radial arms, or a kind of spool, turning on an axis, on which yarn, threads, lines, or the like, are woundA machine on which yarn is wound and measured into lays and hanks, -- for cotton or linen it is fifty-four inches in circuit; for worsted, thirty inches.A device consisting of radial arms with horizontal stats, connected with a harvesting machine, for holding the stalks of grain in position to be cut by the knives.A short compilation of sample film work used as a demonstrative resume in the entertainment industry.

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To wind on a reel.To spin or revolve repeatedly.To unwind, to bring or acquire something by spinning or winding something else.To walk shakily or unsteadily; to stagger; move as if drunk or not in control of one's self.(reel back) To back off or step away unsteadily and quickly.To make or cause to reel.

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