Unfold vs Unravel - What's the difference?
unfold | unravel |
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.
to separate the threads (of); disentangle
to become undone; to collapse
* 2010 , Ian Cowie,
*:The great Ponzi scheme that lies behind our State pension is unravelling – as they all do eventually – because money being taken from new investors is insufficient to honour promises issued to earlier generations.
(figurative) To clear from complication or difficulty; to unfold; to solve.
(figurative) To separate the connected or united parts of; to throw into disorder; to confuse.
* Dryden
Unravel is a synonym of unfold.
In intransitive terms the difference between unfold and unravel
is that unfold is to turn out; to happen; to develop while unravel is to become undone; to collapse.As verbs the difference between unfold and unravel
is that unfold is to undo a folding while unravel is to separate the threads (of); disentangle.As a noun unfold
is in functional programming, a kind of higher-order function that is the opposite of a fold.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.
Antonyms
* foldNoun
(en noun)unravel
English
Verb
- Stop playing with the seam of the tablecloth! You will unravel it.
- Mother couldn't unravel the ball of wool after the cat had played with it.
"State pension Ponzi scheme unravels with retirement at 70", The Telegraph , June 24th, 2010,
- New Ponzi Scheme Unravels !
- to unravel a plot
- to unravel a mystery
- to unravel the confusion
- Art shall be conjured for it, and nature all unravelled .
- ''to unravel the global compromise achieved in the Constitutional Treaty
- ''to unravel the broad consensus which was created
