Unfold vs Unscroll - What's the difference?
unfold | unscroll |
To undo a folding.
* Herbert
* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
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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 open or unfold progressively, as a scroll does.
*{{quote-news, year=2008, date=March 30, author=The New York Times, title=Zimbabweans Vote, Desperate for Change, work=New York Times
, passage=?Lines were long at the polling stations here well before morning had unscrolled its first light. }}
As verbs the difference between unfold and unscroll
is that unfold is to undo a folding while unscroll is to open or unfold progressively, as a scroll does.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
- 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)unscroll
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Verb
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