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unroll

verb

Etymology

From un- + roll.

  1. derived from rollāre
  2. derived from rotula — “a little wheel”
  3. derived from rotulāre — “to roll; to revolve”
  4. derived from roller
  5. inherited from rollen
  6. prefixed as unroll — “un + roll”

Definitions

  1. To straighten something that has been rolled, twisted or curled.

    • Unroll your sleeping bag and spread it on the floor of the tent.

  2. To emerge, be revealed or become apparent

    To emerge, be revealed or become apparent; to unfold.

    • We will have to see how the events unroll.

  3. To replace (a loop in a program) with a repetitive sequence of the individual…

    To replace (a loop in a program) with a repetitive sequence of the individual instructions that the loop would carry out, sometimes used as an optimization.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for unroll. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA