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Unfold vs Unwad - What's the difference?

unfold | unwad |

In lang=en terms the difference between unfold and unwad

is that unfold is to reveal while unwad is to unfold (something wadded).

As verbs the difference between unfold and unwad

is that unfold is to undo a folding while unwad is to unfold (something wadded).

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.

    • unwad

    English

    Verb

    (unwadd)
  • To unfold (something wadded).
  • * 1999 , Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen, Kimberly Kirberger, Chicken soup for the college soul (page 37)
    • and he's never in his life managed to unwad a pair of socks before putting them in the hamper.
  • * 2009 , Terri Blackstock, Double Minds
    • Glancing back at the bathroom, she picked up and unwadded the paper. It was nothing. Just some download instructions from a computer help screen.