Unroll
[ʌn'rəʊl] or [ʌn'rol]
Definition
(v. t.) To open, as what is rolled or convolved; as, to unroll cloth; to unroll a banner.
(v. t.) To display; to reveal.
(v. t.) To remove from a roll or register, as a name.
Typist: Pierce
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. Unfold, open, evolve, develop.
Checked by Brett
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Unfold, open, discover,[See INCOMPARABLE]
Editor: Stu
Definition
v.t. to roll down: to open out.—v.i. to become uncoiled or opened out.—n. Unroll′ment.
Typist: Rex
Examples
- Vast perspectives of success unroll themselves before my eyes. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- Professor Jeremiah Day had taught Morse at Yale that the electric spark might be made to pierce a band of unrolling paper. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- Robert Jordan unrolled the bundle of clothing that made his pillow and pulled on his shirt. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Robert Jordan reached down and unrolled his trousers from the pillow and began to put them on. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- So the tangled web will be most speedily and most intelligibly unrolled. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- I carried the linen to the dry sand of the beach, and there unrolled and smoothed it out. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- Every year on the fifteenth of October Fifth Avenue opened its shutters, unrolled its carpets and hung up its triple layer of window-curtains. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
Edited by Claudette