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Definition: Unreel |
UnreelVerb1. Unwind from or as if from a reel; "unreel the tape". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonym: UnreelSynonym: reel off (v). (additional references) |
| Synonym by domain: partly unreel (public administration). |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
unreel | 12 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "unreel"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | shpështjellem (unroll, unwind), hap (anatomize, cave, detect, dig, disclose, display, dissect, distribute, drive, expand, footstep, inaugurate, move, open, open up, pace, peg, pitch, remove, roll out, spread, start, step, stretch, strew, turn down, turn on, unblock, unbolt, unbosom, uncap, unclasp, unclench, unclose, uncork, uncover, undo, undraw, unfurl, unhook, unlatch, unlock, unseal, unshutter, unwrap, walk). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | كر, نكر (contradict, controvert, deny, deny oneself, disallow, disbelieve, disclaim, gainsay, negate, negative, rebut, recant, renege, renounce, repudiate, retract). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | развивам (cultivate, develop, do, educate, evolve, make, pay out, push, uncoil, unfold, unfurl, ungird, unroll, unswathe, unwind, unwrap, wind off, work up), размотавам (disembarrass, disentangle, reel off, uncoil, unlay, untwist, unweave, unwind, wind off). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 退卷 (unreeling). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | odvinout (reel off, uncoil, unroll, unwind), obvíjet (uncoil). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | afspoelen (gargle, rinse). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | واچرخاندن , تعریف کردن (Define, Emblazon, Praise, Recount), ازقرقره بازکردن , بازگفتن (Recount, Repeat, Restate). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | dévider (unwind), dérouler (unroll, unwind, unwrap). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | abspulen (reel off, take off, take up, to take up, uncoil, unwind). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | ξετυλίγω (reel out, unroll, unwind), ανελίσσω. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | ל'לול (furl, interwind, roll, unwind, wrap). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | leteker (reel, to uncoil, to unfold, to unreel, to unroll, to wind off, unfold, unroll), legombolyít (reel off, to reel off, to uncoil, to unfold, to unreel, to unwind, uncoil, unfold, unwind, unwound). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | eelunray desenrolar-se (reel off, uncoil, uncurl, unroll, untwist, unwind), desenrolar (deploy, reel off, run off, uncoil, unroll, untwine, unwind, wind off), desbobinar-se (reel off, unwind), desbobinar (reel off). (various references) se desfãşura (be on, deploy, evolve, expand, go off, go on, pass off, stream, unfold, unroll), dezbobina (unwind), derula (uncoil, unroll, unwind). (various references) разматывать (reel, uncoil, unwind, wind off). (various references) raspredati (perorate, spin out, untwine), odmotati (pay out, unbind, uncoil, unwind). (various references) desenrollar (uncoil, uncurl, unroll, wind off, wind on). (various references) makaradan çözmek (reel off), makaradan çözülmek. (various references) розмотуватися (uncoil, unwind), розмотувати (uncoil, unwind, wind off). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "unreel": unreeled, unreeler, unreelers, unreeling, unreels. (additional references) | |
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"Unreel" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: inreal, Ucrel, uirrel, unare, unfell, ungreenly, unkeel, unnel, unream, unrely, unrevel, unrole, unzee, urel, Urepel, uriel, urnae. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-e-l-n-r-u" | |
-1 letter: enure. | |
-2 letters: erne, leer, lune, lure, nurl, reel, rule, rune. | |
-3 letters: eel, ere, ern, lee, leu, nee, ree, rue, run, urn. | |
-4 letters: el, en, er, ne, nu, re, un. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-e-l-n-r-u" | |
+1 letter: lucerne, nervule, unreels. | |
+2 letters: aleurone, cerulean, fluorene, funereal, lemurine, lucernes, nervules, neurulae, perilune, prunelle, refluent, reguline, relucent, relumine, replunge, revenual, runelike, sneerful, sullener, tunneler, underlet, underlie, unreeled, unreeler. | |
+3 letters: aleurones, blundered, blunderer, calenture, ceruleans, crenulate, cruelness, cullender, enclosure, endurable, fluorenes, fullerene, herculean, interlude, laundered, launderer, licensure, lumbermen, nebulizer, numerable, perilunes, plundered, plunderer, prunelles, purulence, queenlier, refluence, refueling, refulgent, relumined, relumines, replunged, replunges, resentful, retinulae, spelunker, tenurable, tunnelers, unaltered, uncleaner, unclearer, underlets, underlies, underline, undersell, unfertile, unlearned, unraveled, unreelers, unreeling, unrelated, unrelaxed, unsterile, virulence, volunteer. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)55 6E 72 65 65 6C |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)..- -. .-. . . .-.. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010101 01101110 01110010 01100101 01100101 01101100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)U n r e e l |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0055 006E 0072 0065 0065 006C |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)558084717178 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Expressions: Internet 4. Translations: Modern | 5. Derivations 6. Anagrams 7. Orthography 8. Bibliography |
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