🇯🇵Japanese Source WordCode: JA

巻取機

Pronunciation / Transliteration: maki-tori-ki

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Rewinder/ˈriːˌwaɪn.dər/
nounCEFR B2 (Upper)Top #8500 frequency
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🇯🇵 Example Sentence in Japanese:

"工場には新しい巻取機が導入されました。"

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    A mechanical device used for winding material such as film, magnetic tape, yarn, or wire from one spool or bobbin onto another.

    "The factory operator loaded a new empty spool into the bobbin rewinder to prepare for the next production run."
  2. 2

    A machine or apparatus designed to pull and reset threads, ribbons, or cables onto bobbins in textile or manufacturing processes.

    "An automatic bobbin puller and rewinder ensures that the yarn remains tensioned correctly."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the verb 'rewind', combining the prefix 're-' (meaning again) with 'wind' (from Old English 'windan', meaning to turn or twist), and the agent suffix '-er' denoting a device or person that performs the action. Originally used for mechanical devices that wound tape, film, or yarn backward or onto a new spool, the term evolved to include industrial machinery like bobbin pullers and spoolers.

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