Unfold
[ʌn'fəʊld] or [ʌn'fold]
Definition
(verb.) spread out or open from a closed or folded state; 'open the map'; 'spread your arms'.
(verb.) extend or stretch out to a greater or the full length; 'Unfold the newspaper'; 'stretch out that piece of cloth'; 'extend the TV antenna'.
(verb.) open to the view; 'A walk through town will unfold many interesting buildings'.
Checker: Osbert--From WordNet
Definition
(v. t.) To open the folds of; to expand; to spread out; as, to unfold a tablecloth.
(v. t.) To open, as anything covered or close; to lay open to view or contemplation; to bring out in all the details, or by successive development; to display; to disclose; to reveal; to elucidate; to explain; as, to unfold one's designs; to unfold the principles of a science.
(v. t.) To release from a fold or pen; as, to unfold sheep.
(v. i.) To open; to expand; to become disclosed or developed.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. [1]. Expand, open, unroll.[2]. Reveal, disclose, declare, divulge, tell, interpret, disentangle, resolve, decipher, unravel, unriddle, explain, illustrate, make known, set forth, make clear.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Unravel, disclose, unbosom, divulge, display, spread_out, expand, reveal,develop, explain, declare,[See QUALIFICATION]
Typist: Margery
Definition
v.t. to open the folds of: to release from a fold: to spread out: to tell.—v.i. to spread open expand develop.—ns. Unfold′er; Unfold′ing; Unfold′ment.
Typist: Vivienne
Examples
- Now, unfold it and tell me what it is. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- Before my eyes, too, his disposition seemed to unfold another phase; to pass to a fresh day: to rise in new and nobler dawn. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- I am not putting the thoughts into his head, but helping him unfold those already there. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- But it still remains to elucidate the actual thing done; to reduce it to concrete data, and in reducing, to unfold its colossal dimensions. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Accident has made him the starting-point of the strange family story which it is the purpose of these pages to unfold. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- Goethe had the power to call up at will the form of a flower, to make it change from one color to another and to unfold before his mind's eye. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- He saw it and secured it quickly, but as he went back to his inn he had no eagerness to unfold the paper. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Johnson and I went to the Charleston end to carry out Edison's plans, which were rapidly unfolded by telegraph every night from a loft on lower Broadway, New York. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- He unfolded a paper and laid it upon the table. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- This tale, therefore, shall be rapidly unfolded. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- We shall make Mr. Pickwick pay for peeping,' said Fogg, with considerable native humour, as he unfolded his papers. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- He unfolded the rough chart, which I here reproduce, GRAPHIC and he laid it across Holmes's knee. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- It's wrote on gilt-edged paper,' said Sam, as he unfolded it, 'and sealed in bronze vax vith the top of a door key. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Then he unfolded his arms, and held her encircled in one for an instant: 'You do well! Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- Life at any stage short of attainment of this goal is merely an unfolding toward it. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- He sends--I really beg your pardon--he sends, says Sir Leicester, selecting the letter and unfolding it, a message to you. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- The risk would remain even with close knowledge of Lydgate's character; for character too is a process and an unfolding. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- The teaching of history, as we are unfolding it in this book, is strictly in accordance with this teaching of Buddha. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The control is from behind, from the past, instead of, as in the unfolding conception, in the ultimate goal. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Come, Peggy, said Jo, unfolding herself like an animated puzzle. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- Development is conceived not as continuous growing, but as the unfolding of latent powers toward a definite goal. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- In the new world of invention mind has breathed into matter, and a new and expanding creation unfolds itself. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Mortimer stares at him, and unfolds the paper. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- For Jove unfolds the hospitable door, 'Tis Jove that sends the strangers and the poor. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- Perhaps we can raise it again and follow the hints it unfolds. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
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