Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To unwind and open (something rolled up).
- intransitive verb To unfold and present to view; reveal.
- intransitive verb To become unrolled.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To open, as something rolled or folded: as, to
unroll cloth. - To display; lay open. To strike off from a roll or register.
- To become straight or loose, as in passing from a rolled condition.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To open, as what is rolled or convolved.
- transitive verb To display; to reveal.
- transitive verb To remove from a roll or register, as a name.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive To
straighten something that has beenrolled ,twisted orcurled . - verb intransitive To
emerge , berevealed or becomeapparent ; tounfold . - verb transitive (
computing ) To replace (aloop in aprogram ) with arepetitive sequence of the individualinstructions that the loop would carry out, sometimes used as anoptimization .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb reverse the winding or twisting of
- verb unroll, unfold, or spread out or be unrolled, unfolded, or spread out from a furled state
Etymologies
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Examples
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Alf, she's by all odds the finest bolt of calico I ever tried to unroll -- I say _unroll_, because if she hain't a tight mystery I never saw one. "
Dixie Hart 1888
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I remember her picking up The Man in Lower Ten while my hair got dry enough to unroll from a load of kid curlers trying to make me like my idol Mary Pickford.
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I remember her picking up The Man in Lower Ten while my hair got dry enough to unroll from a load of kid curlers trying to make me like my idol Mary Pickford.
Raised to Read 2008
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It also demonstrated experimentally how an - In parallelization and vectorization, dependences restrict the par - other loop transformation, called unroll-and-jam
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It also demonstrated experimentally how an - In parallelization and vectorization, dependences restrict the par - other loop transformation, called unroll-and-jam
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Etymologically, the word evolution is linked to the word for "unroll," as in the way an ancient manuscript was unfurled.
One Cʘsmos Gagdad Bob 2010
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Seales hopes to scan two of the scrolls and then digitally "unroll" them on a computer screen so scholars can read them.
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"We said, 'Let's simplify this thing down to two steps -' pinch 'and' unroll '- that's it ...
Muti 2010
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He had waited too often and futilely in the past for porcupines to unroll, to waste any more time.
The Lair 2010
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Quaker-gray from taupe, until the blackwater satins unroll their gorgeous lengths above a sharpening partition of lake-and-loam.
Varenna 2010
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