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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
unfold
verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a tragedy unfolds
▪ When you visit the country, you begin to appreciate the size of the tragedy that is unfolding.
events unfold (=happen, usually in an exciting or unexpected way)
▪ I watched the dramatic events unfold from my window.
spread out/unfold a map
▪ We spread out our maps on the floor.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
drama
▪ He had watched the drama unfold from a support vessel.
▪ Whether such efforts will succeed constitutes the worldwide drama that is unfolding largely outside the spotlight but will shape the next century.
▪ Stuck in this predicament the four travellers become embroiled in a drama unfolding in the house nearby.
▪ Bruno, somewhat impervious to the drama unfolding in front of him, was still huffing and puffing in his monster role.
▪ All of which meant that Sanchez watched the subsequent drama unfold from a television monitor.
▪ Awareness becomes heightened, and everyday domestic dramas unfold into staggering universal truths.
▪ It dramatically dwindled so that fewer than 500 were on hand to see the final drama unfold on the fifth morning.
▪ By ten the next morning, some twenty thousand people were on hand to watch the drama unfold.
event
▪ She gazed at the pages as Carolyn read, as if she could see the events unfolding there.
▪ It was news because it was an unpredictable event unfolding in real time.
▪ Much though we might sometimes like it to be otherwise, events unfold as they happen.
▪ After all, when events unfold in the real world, they do so without musical accompaniment.
▪ As these events were unfolding we were finding that our Partnership's lifestyle magazines were going from strength to strength.
▪ Dave Garrod recalls that the men of his track were unprepared for the events that unfolded.
▪ No-one can predict how events will unfold.
▪ At first the momentous events unfolding in Rome seemed barely relevant.
history
▪ They make a delightful, spontaneously spellbound audience, to whom one could show history unfolding as if with a magic lantern.
▪ That afternoon, another bit of history was unfolding.
▪ Indeed, if the stroke were a vigorous one, all kinds of subsequent histories might potentially unfold upon the table.
life
▪ Perception is the way a person actually sees life unfolding around him or herself.
▪ That kind of story only sells in real life, when it unfolds so unexpectedly before your eyes.
plot
▪ The two plots unfold in quite similar ways.
▪ No central person or religious organization planned or coordinated it; no single plot unfolded.
▪ It is time for the plot to unfold.
▪ The plot unfolds engagingly, with some very entertaining video segments.
story
▪ There is space for a story to unfold.
▪ As the story unfolds, first Axel and then Alec come to wield extraordinary power in Washington without running for elective office.
▪ I saw the story unfolding minute by minute at work.
▪ She felt she could influence the outcome of the screenplay by her concentrated thoughts as the story unfolded.
▪ But within the ranks at the local club, an even more remarkable story is unfolding.
▪ A complicated story unfolds, with Mitchum desperately trying to extricate himself from the trap.
▪ These are but few of the dramatic effects produced with directional sound and subtle lighting as the story of Rye unfolds.
▪ As the story unfolded, many of the details of the August 22 meeting surfaced.
tragedy
▪ What the hon. Member for Staffordshire, South said about the tragedy unfolding before us is right.
▪ Across the continent in New York City a similar tragedy was unfolding.
▪ On the way out, a policeman told him about the tragedy that was unfolding at the far end of the ground.
▪ Price data can not capture the scale of the human tragedy unfolding across the developing world.
■ VERB
begin
▪ Here, it seemed, twenty years ago, the mystery of what had befallen Heather Mallender had begun to unfold.
see
▪ She gazed at the pages as Carolyn read, as if she could see the events unfolding there.
▪ Genetically predetermined stages are seen as unfolding naturally.
▪ As London's largest independent provider of community care we have seen these changes unfold at first hand.
▪ The quarterback sees all this unfold, and throws to one of them.
▪ I saw the story unfolding minute by minute at work.
▪ Perception is the way a person actually sees life unfolding around him or herself.
▪ That is my forecast, although I will not be here to see it unfold.
▪ It dramatically dwindled so that fewer than 500 were on hand to see the final drama unfold on the fifth morning.
watch
▪ He had watched the drama unfold from a support vessel.
▪ The simple joy of watching a game slowly unfold was replaced by the chrome brutality of the box score.
▪ It has been disturbing to watch this argument unfold without much awareness that a huge crisis may be just around the corner.
▪ It was not reasonable to expect a man like that to sit and watch the event unfold.
▪ All of which meant that Sanchez watched the subsequent drama unfold from a television monitor.
▪ So I watched the tragicomedy unfold before me and believed it.
▪ We now watch these matters unfold, from a new seat at the ringside.
▪ By ten the next morning, some twenty thousand people were on hand to watch the drama unfold.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ "I must lay the table,'' she said, unfolding a clean white linen tablecloth.
▪ As the story unfolds, our image of Claudia changes.
▪ Eileen struggled to unfold a large map.
▪ He took out his handkerchief, unfolded it, and blew his nose.
▪ Miss Male nervously folded and unfolded her napkin as she spoke.
▪ The receipt had been folded and unfolded so many times that it was almost in pieces.
▪ They unfolded the tablecloth and set out the picnic.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ As the case against Wooten unfolds, Mustaf is expected to continue playing a leading role.
▪ Because as the days and weeks unfold so will the true identity of her baby.
▪ Even those remaining were listening to the drama unfolding outside the hostelry.
▪ Reno unfolded herself, pushed her bulk out of the car, and peeled her dresses off the back seat.
▪ Roy Anderson took great pains to ensure there were no more surprises for any of the players in the unfolding drama.
▪ The woman turned and looked frankly puzzled, unfolding the note.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Unfold

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.

Unfold

Unfold \Un*fold"\, v. t. [AS. unfealdan. See 1st Un-, and Fold, v. t.]

  1. To open the folds of; to expand; to spread out; as, to unfold a tablecloth.

    Unfold thy forehead gathered into frowns.
    --Herbert.

  2. To open, as anything covered or close; to lay open to view or contemplation; to bring out in all the details, or by successive development; to display; to disclose; to reveal; to elucidate; to explain; as, to unfold one's designs; to unfold the principles of a science.

    Unfold the passion of my love.
    --Shak.

  3. To release from a fold or pen; as, to unfold sheep.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
unfold

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 14c. Related: Unfolded; unfolding.

Wiktionary
unfold

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.

WordNet
unfold

  1. v. develop or come to a promising stage; "Youth blossomed into maturity" [syn: blossom, blossom out, blossom forth]

  2. open to the view; "A walk through town will unfold many interesting buildings"

  3. extend or stretch out to a greater or the full length; "Unfold the newspaper"; "stretch out that piece of cloth"; "extend the TV antenna" [syn: stretch, stretch out, extend]

  4. spread out or open from a closed or folded state; "open the map"; "spread your arms" [syn: spread, spread out, open] [ant: fold]

Wikipedia
Unfold

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 unfolding, in biochemistry
  • Unfolded state (denatured protein), in biochemistry
  • Maximum variance unfolding (semidefinite embedding), in computer science
  • Unfold (Marié Digby album), 2008
  • Unfold (John O'Callaghan album)
Unfold (Marié Digby album)

Unfold is the debut solo album by singer/songwriter Marié Digby. The album features the singles " Umbrella" (a cover of the Rihanna hit), " Say It Again" and "Stupid for You", and was released on April 8, 2008 in the United States via Hollywood Records. The album debuted at #29 on the Billboard 200 with 18,000 copies sold in its first week.

Unfold (John O'Callaghan album)

Unfold is the third studio album by the Irish trance producer and DJ John O'Callaghan, released on April 7, 2011, as digital download and on April 15, 2011, in stores.

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.