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unroll en · VERB

Pronunciation

  • (Southern-England) audio

Etymology

Etymology tree English un- Proto-Indo-European *Hreth₂- Proto-Indo-European *Hróth₂eh₂der. Proto-Italic *rotā Latin rota Proto-Indo-European *-lós Proto-Indo-European *-elós Proto-Italic *-elos Latin -ulus Latin rotulader. Latin rotulāre Old French roelerbor. Middle English rollen English roll English unroll From un- + roll.

Meanings

  1. (transitive) To straighten something that has been rolled, twisted or curled.
    • Unroll your sleeping bag and spread it on the floor of the tent.
  2. (intransitive) To emerge, be revealed or become apparent; to unfold.
    • We will have to see how the events unroll.
  3. (transitive) To replace (a loop in a program) with a repetitive sequence of the individual instructions that the loop would carry out, sometimes used as an optimization.

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
unrolls Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
unrolling Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
unrolled Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
unrolled Tense=Past lexicographic

Deriveds

unrollable · unroller · unrollment

Relateds

unfold · unfurl

Synonyms

unwind