Uncover vs Unfold - What's the difference?
uncover | unfold |
to remove the cover of an object
To reveal the identity of
To show openly; to disclose; to reveal.
* Milton
To divest of the hat or cap; to bare the head of.
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.
As verbs the difference between uncover and unfold
is that uncover is to remove the cover of an object while unfold is to undo a folding.As a noun unfold is
in functional programming, a kind of higher-order function that is the opposite of a fold.uncover
English
Verb
(en verb)- The model railway was uncovered .
- The murderer has finally been uncovered .
- To uncover his perjury to the oath of his coronation.
- to uncover oneself
Antonyms
* cover upunfold
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.