Untie vs Unfurl - What's the difference?
untie | unfurl |
To loosen, as something interlaced or knotted; to disengage the parts of.
* (rfdate), Waller:
To free from fastening or from restraint; to let loose; to unbind.
* Shakespeare, Macbeth , act 4, scene 1:
* (rfdate), Jeremy Taylor:
To resolve; to unfold; to clear.
* (rfdate), Denham:
To become untied or loosed.
To unroll or release something that had been rolled up, typically a sail or a flag.
To roll out or debut anything.
To turn out or unfold; to evolve; to progress.
As verbs the difference between untie and unfurl
is that untie is to loosen, as something interlaced or knotted; to disengage the parts of while unfurl is to unroll or release something that had been rolled up, typically a sail or a flag.untie
English
Verb
- to untie a knot
- Sacharissa's captive fain / Would untie his iron chain.
- Though you untie the winds, and let them fight / Against the churches.
- All the evils of an untied tongue we put upon the accounts of drunkenness.
- They quicken sloth, perplexities untie .
Antonyms
* tieAnagrams
*unfurl
English
Verb
(en verb)- They unfurled the flag at the start of the festival.
- When will we be unfurling the new feature?
