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Unfold vs Spread - What's the difference?

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Spread is a synonym of unfold.



In intransitive terms the difference between unfold and spread

is that unfold is to turn out; to happen; to develop while spread is to take up a larger area or space; to expand, be extended.

In transitive terms the difference between unfold and spread

is that unfold is to reveal while spread is to cover (something) with a thin layer of some substance, as of butter.

As verbs the difference between unfold and spread

is that unfold is to undo a folding while spread is to stretch out, open out (a material etc.) so that it more fully covers a given area of space.

As nouns the difference between unfold and spread

is that unfold is in functional programming, a kind of higher-order function that is the opposite of a fold while spread is the act of spreading or something that has been spread.

unfold

English

Verb

  • To undo a folding.
  • * Herbert
    • Unfold thy forehead gathered into frowns.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
    • , chapter=19 citation , passage=Meanwhile Nanny Broome was recovering from her initial panic and seemed anxious to make up for any kudos she might have lost, by exerting her personality to the utmost. She took the policeman's helmet and placed it on a chair, and unfolded his tunic to shake it and fold it up again for him.}}
  • To turn out; to happen; to develop.
  • * '>citation
    • 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.
  • To reveal.
  • * , I.v.
    • Pity me not, but lend thy serious hearing  To what I shall unfold .
  • 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)
    • Unfold the passion of my love.
  • To release from a fold or pen.
    • Antonyms
    * fold

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (computing, programming) In functional programming, a kind of higher-order function that is the opposite of a fold.

    • spread

    English

    Verb

  • To stretch out, open out (a material etc.) so that it more fully covers a given area of space.
  • To extend (individual rays, limbs etc.); to stretch out in varying or opposing directions.
  • To disperse, to scatter or distribute over a given area.
  • To proliferate; to become more widely present, to be disseminated.
  • *
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-20, volume=408, issue=8845, magazine=(The Economist)
    • , title= Old soldiers? , passage=Whether modern, industrial man is less or more warlike than his hunter-gatherer ancestors is impossible to determine.
  • To disseminate; to cause to proliferate, to make (something) widely known or present.
  • To take up a larger area or space; to expand, be extended.
  • To smear, to distribute in a thin layer.
  • To cover (something) with a thin layer of some substance, as of butter.
  • To prepare; to set and furnish with provisions.
    • to spread a table
  • * Tennyson
    • Boiled the flesh, and spread the board.
  • (slang) To open one’s legs.
  • * 1984 , (Martin Amis), :
    • This often sounds like the rap of a demented DJ: the way she moves has got to be good news, can't get loose till I feel the juice— suck and spread , bitch, yeah bounce for me baby.
  • * 1991 , (Tori Amos), (Me and a Gun) :
    • Yes I wore a slinky red thing. Does that mean I should spread for you, your friends, your father, Mr Ed?
  • * 2003 , (Outkast), "Spread" (from the album ):
    • I don't want to move too fast, but / Can't resist your sexy ass / Just spread', ' spread for me; / (I can't, I can't wait to get you home)

    Synonyms

    * disseminate * circulate * propagate * put about

    Derived terms

    * spread betting

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of spreading or something that has been spread.
  • * Francis Bacon
    • No flower hath spread like that of the woodbine.
  • An expanse of land.
  • * Addison
    • I have got a fine spread of improvable land.
  • A large tract of land used to raise livestock; a cattle ranch.
  • * 2005 , , 00:11:50:
    • - Can’t wait till I get my own spread and won’t have to put up with Joe Aguirre’s crap no more.
    - I’m savin’ for a place myself.
  • A piece of material used as a cover (such as a bedspread).
  • A large meal, especially one laid out on a table.
  • Any form of food designed to be spread such as butters or jams
  • An item in a newspaper or magazine that occupies more than one column or page.
  • A numerical difference.
  • (business, economics) The difference between the wholesale and retail prices.
  • (trading, economics, finance) The difference between the price of a futures month and the price of another month of the same commodity.
  • (trading, finance) The purchase of a futures contract of one delivery month against the sale of another futures delivery month of the same commodity.
  • (trading, finance) The purchase of one delivery month of one commodity against the sale of that same delivery month of a different commodity.
  • (trading) An arbitrage transaction of the same commodity in two markets, executed to take advantage of a profit from price discrepancies.
  • (trading) The difference between bidding and asking price.
  • (finance) The difference between the prices of two similar items.
  • (geometry) An unlimited expanse of discontinuous points.

    • Synonyms

    * straddle

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