Unroll

Definition: Unroll

Unroll

Verb

1. Reverse the winding or twisting of; "unwind a ball of yarn".

2. Unroll, unfold, or spread out or be unrolled, unfolded, or spread out from a furled state; "unfurl a banner".

Date "unroll" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1594. (references)

Synonyms: Unroll

Synonyms: unfurl (v), unwind (v), wind off (v). (additional references)

Synonym by domain: unrolled (chemical industry).

Antonyms: roll up (v), wind (v). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Decomposition	Verb: decompose, decompound; analyze, disembody, dissolve; resolve into its elements, separate into its elements; electrolyze; dissect, decentralize, break up; disperse; unravel; (unroll); crumble into dust.
Evolution	Verb: evolve; unfold, unroll, unwind, uncoil, untwist, unfurl, untwine, unravel; untangle, disentangle; develop.
Manifestation	Verb: make manifest, render manifest; Adjective: bring forth, bring forward, bring to the front, bring into view; give notice; express; represent, set forth, exhibit; show, show up; expose; produce; hold up to view, expose to view; set before one, place before one, lay before one, one's eyes; tell to one's face; trot out, put through one's paces, bring to light, display, demonstrate, unroll; lay open; draw out, bring out; bring out in strong relief; call into notice, bring into notice; hold up the mirror; wear one's heart upon his sleeve; show one's face, show one's colors; manifest oneself; speak out; make no mystery, make no secret of; unfurl the flag; proclaim; (publish).
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Unroll

English words defined with "unroll": unfurl. (references)

Specialty definitions using "unroll": QUILTING-MACHINE OPERATOR. (references)

Etymologies containing "unroll": Disinvolve. (references)

Domain	Title
Music	Unroll [IMPORT] (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

"Unroll" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 50.00% of the time. "Unroll" is used about 22 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Lexical Verb (infinitive)	50%	11	106,044
Lexical Verb (base form)	36.36%	8	124,375
Noun (singular)	13.64%	3	202,518
Total	100.00%	22	N/A

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.

Language		Translations for "unroll"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Afrikaans		afwikkel (conclude, dispatch, expedite, finish, liquidate, settle, unwind, wind off). (various references)

Albanian		shpështjelloj (uncoil, uncurl, unwind, wind off), shpështjellem (unreel, unwind). (various references)

Arabic		‏كشف عن (bare, develop, disclose, discover, rummage, unbosom), ‏نشر (apply, be published, bear, braying, bring out, broadcast, circulate, diffusion, dispose, disseminate, distribute, edition, expand, extend, fudge, gazette, give out, hang out, insert in a newspaper, irradiate, issue, overspread, peddle, pervade, popularize, print, proclaim, programming, promulgate, promulgation, propagation, publicize, publishing, put forth, put out, run, saw, sawing, sawn, scatter, shake out, sow, spread, sprinkle, strew, thrust, trephine, unfold, unwrap), ‏إنتشر (be widespread, catch on, circulate, deploy, diffuse, emit, extend, fall out, fan, flow, mushroom, outspread, percolate, permeate, pervade, prevail, propagate, radiate, reproduce, resound, run, send forth, suffuse, swarm, transpire, unfold), ‏إنبسط (roll), ‏بسط (couch, distend, expand, expound, extend, extension, facilitate, fine, lay, reach, simplify, spread, state, stretch, unwind, unwrap, vulgarize). (various references)

Bulgarian		разгъвам (evolve, scan, shake out, unfold, unfurl), разгръщам (deploy, develop, open, outspread, push, spread, work up), развивам (cultivate, develop, do, educate, evolve, make, pay out, push, uncoil, unfold, unfurl, ungird, unreel, unswathe, unwind, unwrap, wind off, work up). (various references)

Chinese		展开 (splay, uncoil, uncoiled, unfold, unfolded, unrolled). (various references)

Czech		rozvinout (array, deploy, develop, evolve, fill out, set sail, spread, uncoil, unfold, unfurl), rozbalit (unpack, untie, unwrap), odvinout (reel off, uncoil, unreel, unwind). (various references)

Dutch		uitrollen, ontrollen (unwind), afwikkelen (conclude, dispatch, expedite, finish, finnish, liquidate, settle, unwind, wind off). (various references)

Esperanto		malvolvi, malbobeni (unwind, wind off). (various references)

Farsi		بازکردن(توپ پارچه وطوماروغیره), بازشدن (Pip, Uncouple, Unlatch). (various references)

Finnish		kelapurkuri (let-off, let-off device, let-off gear, pay-off, pay-off device, roller device, unwinder, winding-off device), aukirullain (unwinder), aukikelauskone (let-off, let-off device, let-off gear, pay-off, pay-off device, roller device, unwinder, winding-off device). (various references)

French		se dérouler (uncoil, unfold, unwind), expliquer, développer, dérouleur (unwinder), dérouler (unreel, unwind, unwrap), étendre. (various references)

Frisian		ôfwuolje (unwind, wind off). (various references)

German		aufrollen (coil, coil up, furl, go into, reel off, roll, roll up, to furl, turn up, uncoil, unfurl, unwind, wind up), abrollen (go off, roll off, taxi off, uncoil, unfold, unreel, unwind). (various references)

Greek		ξετυλικτής (unwinder), ξετυλίγω (reel out, unreel, unwind), ακτυλίσσω, αναπτύσσω (build up, deploy, develop, evolve, explicate, expound, unfold, work up). (various references)

Hebrew		לפתוח (begin, loosen, open, preface, start, unbar, uncover, untie), ל�"ת�'ולל (roll oneself). (various references)

Hungarian		leteker (reel, to uncoil, to unfold, to unreel, to unroll, to wind off, unfold, unreel), legöngyöl. (various references)

Italian		svolgitore (unwinder), svolgere (develop, perform, unwind), srotolare (roll out, uncoil, unwind). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		広�'る (to broaden, to enlarge, to expand, to extend, to open, to spread, to unfold, to unroll, to widen), 拡�'る (to broaden, to enlarge, to expand, to extend, to open, to spread, to unfold, to unroll, to widen). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		ひろ�'る (to broaden, to enlarge, to expand, to extend, to open, to spread, to unfold, to unroll, to widen). (various references)

Pig Latin		ollunray

Portuguese		desenrolar (deploy, reel off, run off, uncoil, unreel, untwine, unwind, wind off). (various references)

Romanian		se desfãşura (be on, deploy, evolve, expand, go off, go on, pass off, stream, unfold, unreel), derula (uncoil, unreel, unwind). (various references)

Russian		развертывать (deploy, deploying, evolve, unfold, unfurl, unwrap). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		odviti se (uncoil), odvijati (undo, unwind). (various references)

Spanish		devanar (reel, rewind, spin, unwind, wind, wind off, wind on), desenrollar (uncoil, uncurl, unreel, wind off, wind on). (various references)

Swedish		veckla upp, avrullningsmaskin (let-off gear, roller device, unwinder, winding-off device), avrullningsdon (let-off gear, roller device, unwinder, winding-off device), avrullare (let-off gear, roller device, unwinder, winding-off device). (various references)

Turkish		göz önüne sermek (display, unfurl), açmak (bare, beat, bring up in conversation, bring up the subject, broach, cave, cave in, clear, clear away, clear off, clear up, cleave, cut, cut loose, dehisce, denude, dilate, dilute, disclose, disentangle, elaborate, evolve, expand, fade, inaugurate, institute, lay open, lead, lighten, loosen, loosen up, offer, open, open out, open up, pass, put up, ring up, shake out, sharpen, site, spread, spread out, strip, switch on, thaw, thaw out, throw open, tint, turn on, turn up, unbind, unbosom, unburden, uncase, unclasp, uncloak, unclose, unclothe, uncoil, uncover, uncross, uncurl, undo, unfold, unfurl, unhitch, unlock, unloose, unpack, unpin, unplait, unseal, unsnarl, unstop, untangle, unthread, untie, untwine, untwist, unwind, unwrap, usher in, whet, whiten, wind). (various references)

Ukrainian		розгортатися (deploy, escalate, open, unfold, unwrap), розгортати (deploy, escalate, open, open out, unfold, unfurl, unwrap). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	evolutae, evolutis, evoluto, evolutus, evolvam, evolvere, evolvit, explico, replicant, replicavit. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "unroll": unrolled, unrolling, unrolls. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Unroll" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: n'roll, Nujol, Nurullo, unrole, unrolly, Urola. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "l-l-n-o-r-u"
	-2 letters: lorn, lour, null, nurl, roll.
	-3 letters: nor, our, run, urn.
	-4 letters: lo, no, nu, on, or, un.
	Words containing the letters "l-l-n-o-r-u"
	+1 letter: unrolls.
	+2 letters: bullhorn, prunello, unrolled.
	+3 letters: bullhorns, lunisolar, nucleolar, prunellos, unrolling, unworldly.
	+4 letters: councillor, counsellor, flugelhorn, involucral, monaurally, mournfully, neuroglial, outrolling, scornfully, tourbillon, unilocular, unlovelier, wrongfully.
	+5 letters: allopurinol, binocularly, corpulently, councillors, counsellors, fluegelhorn, flugelhorns, groundswell, illuminator, illusionary, larcenously, monocularly, mournfuller, nocturnally, noncellular, noncultural, nulliparous, polynuclear, quadrillion, scoundrelly, subnormally, tourbillion, tourbillons, unscholarly, unsoldierly, voluntarily, wonderfully.
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