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Unfold vs Unload - What's the difference?

unfold | unload |

In lang=en terms the difference between unfold and unload

is that unfold is to reveal while unload is to draw the charge from.

As verbs the difference between unfold and unload

is that unfold is to undo a folding while unload is to remove the load or cargo from (a vehicle, etc).

As a noun unfold

is (computing|programming) in functional programming, a kind of higher-order function that is the opposite of a fold.

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.
  • unload

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To remove the load or cargo from (a vehicle, etc.).
  • to unload''' a ship; to '''unload a camel
  • To remove (the load or cargo) from a vehicle, etc.
  • to unload bales of hay from a truck
  • To deposit one's load or cargo.
  • * 1998 , Robert A Corbitt, Standard handbook of environmental engineering
  • Some stations have collection vehicles unload on the floor, using a front loader to push material into the hopper.
  • (transitive, intransitive, figuratively) To give vent to or express.
  • * 1984 , John Arlott, David Rayvern Allen, Arlott on cricket: his writings on the game
  • ...who bowled with such fury that he needed beer to give him something to sweat out, and who unloaded his emotions in words as hard as his bowling.
  • (computing) To remove (something previously loaded) from memory.
  • * 1993 , Tony Martin, Lisa C Towell, The NewWave agent handbook
  • When you unload a DLL, the memory and other system resources it is using will become available for use by other applications.
  • To discharge or pour a liquid.
  • To get rid of or dispose of.
  • to unload unprofitable stocks
  • (slang) To go to the bathroom.
  • to unload feces
  • To deliver forcefully.
  • (slang) To ejaculate, particularly within an orifice
  • To draw the charge from.
  • to unload a gun

    Derived terms

    * unloader