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Open out — develop
Answer for the clue "Open out — develop ", 6 letters:
unfold
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Word definitions for unfold in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Unfold \Un*fold"\, v. i. To open; to expand; to become disclosed or developed. The wind blows cold While the morning doth unfold. --J. Fletcher.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
v. develop or come to a promising stage; "Youth blossomed into maturity" [syn: blossom , blossom out , blossom forth ] open to the view; "A walk through town will unfold many interesting buildings" extend or stretch out to a greater or the full length; ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Old English unfealdan , "to open or unwrap the folds of," also figuratively, "to disclose, reveal, explain," from un- (2) "opposite of" + fold (v.). Similar formation in Middle Dutch ontvouden , German entfalten . Intransitive sense is attested from late ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context computing programming English) In functional programming, a kind of higher-order function that is the opposite of a fold. vb. To undo a folding.
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Unfold may refer to: Unfoldable cardinal , in mathematics Unfold (higher-order function) , in computer science a family of anamorphism functions Unfoldment (disambiguation) , in spirituality and physics Unfolded protein response , in biochemistry Equilibrium ...
Usage examples of unfold.
His forgetfulness, at first seemingly attributable to age, leads to a blurring of his awareness between consciousness and dreaming, between things that happened long ago and events as they unfold in the present.
We now proceed to quote and unfold five distinct passages, not yet brought forward, from the epistle, each of which proves that we are not mistaken in attributing to the writer 8 Antiq.
They were shaped like bladeless scissors, and the Constable unfolded them and carefully pinched them over his bulbous nose.
In the onrush and annealment of his pain he leans toward pretty bonsai and a multicolored field of flowers, flowers to loop and strangle, their fuses clambering toward her throat and into her thighs, the stink refracted, the secret folding and unfolding of petals and of lips.
As she did so, Smain, unfolding for an instant his burnous, pressed into her hands his mass of roses.
An intense copper calm, like a universal yellow lotus, was more and more unfolding its noiseless measureless leaves upon the sea.
Still at the crest of the hill on de Sirade, Antoine de la Mery watched the scene unfolding before him.
Six multiphase antennae were unfolding from their sheaths around the middle of the cargo section, flat ash-gray rectangles measuring twenty meters down their long edge.
II When, grown a Shade, beholding That land in lifetime trode, To learn if its unfolding Fulfilled its clamoured code, I saw, in web unbroken, Its history outwrought Not as the loud had spoken, But as the mute had thought.
There were a couple of desktop panes in front of him, each with a holographic pane unfolded and running a test pattern.
I cut the frayed string with my penknife, broke the seal with my thumb and unfolded the sheet.
If the individual is simply the unfolding of the powers possessed by a bit of germ plasm, and if this germ plasm is simply handed on from generation to generation, the successive generations must of necessity be identical.
Of course, if such variations do occur in the germ plasm they will become congenital variations of the next generation, since the next generation is the unfolding of the germ plasm.
Then she spread out her superb, heavy arms in a backwards gesture of benediction and, as she did so, her wings spread, too, a polychromatic unfolding fully six feet across, spread of an eagle, a condor, an albatross fed to excess on the same diet that makes flamingoes pink.
The postilion opened the door and unfolded the step for Foxe to alight.