What does unroll mean?
Definitions for unroll
ʌnˈroʊlun·roll
This dictionary definitions page includes all the possible meanings, example usage and translations of the word unroll.
Princeton's WordNet
unwind, wind off, unrollverb
reverse the winding or twisting of
"unwind a ball of yarn"
unfurl, unrollverb
unroll, unfold, or spread out or be unrolled, unfolded, or spread out from a furled state
"unfurl a banner"
Wiktionary
unrollverb
To straighten something that has been rolled, twisted or curled.
Unroll your sleeping bag and spread it on the floor of the tent.
unrollverb
To emerge, be revealed or become apparent; to unfold.
We will have to see how the events unroll.
unrollverb
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.
Etymology: From un- + roll.
ChatGPT
unroll
To unroll means to open or spread out something that has been rolled or folded, unraveling it to extend its full length. It can also refer to unveiling or explaining something bit by bit, such as a story or a plan. In a digital context, it refers to the action of displaying the full sequence of a threaded message or comments.
Webster Dictionary
Unrollverb
to open, as what is rolled or convolved; as, to unroll cloth; to unroll a banner
Unrollverb
to display; to reveal
Unrollverb
to remove from a roll or register, as a name
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
Unroll
un-rōl′, v.t. to roll down: to open out.—v.i. to become uncoiled or opened out.—n. Unroll′ment.
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Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of unroll in Chaldean Numerology is: 8
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of unroll in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2
Examples of unroll in a Sentence
There needs to be much work before one can virtually unroll carbonized papyrus because one will have to develop a digital method that will allow us to follow the layers, but in the 260 years of Herculaneum papyrology it is certainly a remarkable year.
It's a philosophical library of Epicurean texts from a time when this philosophy influenced the most important classical Latin authors, such as Virgil, Horace and Cicero, there needs to be much work before one can virtually unroll carbonized papyrus because one will have to develop a digital method that will allow us to follow the layers.
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