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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
unroll
verb
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ He unrolled the map and spread it on the table.
▪ We unrolled our sleeping bags and went to sleep.
▪ While we were admiring the rugs, the shopkeeper started to unroll a splendid carpet.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ As the months unrolled, the protocols changed, becoming briefer and more efficient.
▪ He unrolled a bit of green carpet and laid out a ring made of red and white rounds of painted wood.
▪ I unrolled the mattress on the dusty tile floor, flopped down on it and lay there close to tears.
▪ It made me think of a Bedouin taking out his prayer carpet and unrolling it in the vastness of the desert.
▪ Paige turned her back on him, unrolling the sleeping-bag and removing her boots.
▪ The mats are unrolled and laid between the joists, while the granular insulation is just poured on to the boards.
▪ They were at the top of the hill and Foinmen's Plain had unrolled itself before them.
▪ We travel the world with our gym bags and prayer rugs, unrolling them in the transit lounges.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Unroll

Unroll \Un*roll"\, v. t. [1st pref. un- + roll.] [Written also unrol.]

  1. To open, as what is rolled or convolved; as, to unroll cloth; to unroll a banner.

  2. To display; to reveal.
    --Dryden.

  3. To remove from a roll or register, as a name.

    If I make not this cheat bring out another . . . let me be unrolled and my name put in the book of virtue!
    --Shak.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
unroll

early 15c. (transitive), from un- (2) + roll (v.). Intransitive sense from 1580s. Related: Unrolled; unrolling.\n

Wiktionary
unroll

vb. 1 (context transitive English) To straighten something that has been rolled, twisted or curled. 2 (context intransitive English) To emerge, be revealed or become apparent; to unfold. 3 (context transitive programming English) 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.

WordNet
unroll
  1. v. reverse the winding or twisting of; "unwind a ball of yarn" [syn: unwind, wind off] [ant: wind]

  2. unroll, unfold, or spread out or be unrolled, unfolded, or spread out from a furled state; "unfurl a banner" [syn: unfurl] [ant: roll up]

Usage examples of "unroll".

Faculty Building, Wilbur and Boots held the top of the giant art board and Chris Talbot unrolled his poster.

But for the smudge of oil left by his fingers, I could tell myself that none of it had happened, and get on with banging my typewriter keys, ordering mustard by the tub and jam by the barrel and currants by the sackload as the ordnance trucks trundled their deadly trains of long steel canisters across the concrete and the groundcrew hauled fuel bousers and the aircrew watched the maps being unrolled and the pointers pointed at the name of a town in Europe that would mean death for some of them.

Alex unrolled the parcel, revealing it was, as Sten had hoped, a set of indigene civilian clothes, a weapons-equipped combat vest, and a pair of phototropic coveralls.

Unrolling the blanket over me, I slid my plasmic under the pillow, where it would be available if needed, and closed my eyes.

Moji had already unrolled the portation rug, and Kalia was hastily assembling bags of gems upon it.

Japanese intentions up to a point, the days of November unrolled toward the most premonitored surprise attack in history.

Xenophon unrolled it suspiciously, for little news he had received of late was in his favor, and was startled to find that it had been written by Proxenus, from whom he had heard nothing since his return to Boeotia twelve years before.

He was silent, staring gloomily at the plan of Worsted Skeynes, still unrolled, like an emblem of all there was at stake.

To their faith already was unrolled over them that new firmament in whose spanless welkin no cloudy tempests ever gather and break, and the serene lights never fade nor go down.

The consideration of Quantity brings the same result: If production is undetermined in regard to Quantity, each thing has its distinct Reason-Principle: if there is a measured system the Quantity has been determined by the unrolling and unfolding of the Reason-Principles of all the existences.

They unhinged their disturbing mouths and long feathered tongues unrolled towards the rooftops.

I know her name because a moment ago as I unrolled this scroll she touched it with her shell-pink finger and traced the letters for me there.

You were holding this, and you unrolled that book and put the flower into it and rolled it partway up, then wrote.

She paused, staring at it, then took a deep breath and unrolled the paper.

She tugged at the laces that bound it and unrolled the suede pouch to reveal a long, bejeweled white dress.