Dawn vs Unfold - What's the difference?
dawn | unfold | Synonyms |
To begin to brighten with daylight.
* Bible, (w) xxviii. 1
To start to appear or be realized.
*
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, passage=Although the Celebrity was almost impervious to sarcasm, he was now beginning to exhibit visible signs of uneasiness, the consciousness dawning upon him that his eccentricity was not receiving the ovation it merited.}}
To begin to give promise; to begin to appear or to expand.
* (John Dryden) (1631-1700)
* (Alexander Pope) (1688-1744)
(uncountable) The morning twilight period immediately before sunrise.
(countable) The rising of the sun.
(uncountable) The time when the sun rises.
(uncountable) The beginning.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-03, volume=408, issue=8847, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= To undo a folding.
* Herbert
* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=19 To turn out; to happen; to develop.
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To reveal.
* , I.v.
To open (anything covered or closed); to lay open to view or contemplation; to bring out in all the details, or by successive development.
* (William Shakespeare)
To release from a fold or pen.
(computing, programming) In functional programming, a kind of higher-order function that is the opposite of a fold.
Dawn is a synonym of unfold.
As a proper noun dawn
is sometimes given to a girl born at that time of day.As a verb unfold is
to undo a folding.As a noun unfold is
(computing|programming) in functional programming, a kind of higher-order function that is the opposite of a fold.dawn
English
Verb
(en verb)- In the end of the Sabbath, as it began to dawn toward the first day of the week, came Mary Magdaleneto see the sepulchre.
- in dawning youth
- when life awakes, and dawns at every line
Derived terms
* dawn onSee also
*Noun
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Synonyms
* (rising of the sun) break of dawn, dayspring, sunrise * (time when the sun rises) break of dawn, break of day, crack of dawn, daybreak, dayspring, sunrise, sunup * (beginning) beginning, onset, startAntonyms
* duskHypernyms
* twilightDerived terms
* crack of dawn * dawn chorus * it is always darkest before the dawnSee also
* crepuscularAnagrams
* wand ----unfold
English
Verb
- Unfold thy forehead gathered into frowns.
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- Memento unfolds over 22 scenes—or, more accurately, 22 strands of time, the main strand (in color) moving backward in increments, and another strand (in black and white) going forward, though the two overlap profoundly.
- Pity me not, but lend thy serious hearing To what I shall unfold .
- Unfold the passion of my love.