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Definition: Unrolled |
UnrolledAdjective1. Extended or spread out fully before one; "saw miles of sand dunes rolled out to the horizon". 2. Unwound and spread out (of something rolled or coiled). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "unrolled" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1678. (references) |
Synonym: UnrolledSynonym: rolled out(p) (adj). (additional references) |
| Synonyms by domain: unroll (chemical industry), unwinder. |
Crosswords: Unrolled |
| English words defined with "unrolled": Polyconic projection ♦ unfurl, unroll. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "unrolled": Humidification. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "unrolled": Evolute. (references) |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Firemen's muster. Boothbay center, Maine. Measuring the farthest drop of water on building paper which is unrolled fresh for each team. Distances were in the neighborhood of two hundred feet. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Title | Author | Quote |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | Joad unrolled his new yellow shoes from his coat, and he brushed his dusty feet with his hand before he slipped them on. |
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| "Unrolled" is generally used as a lexical verb (past tense) -- approximately 51.43% of the time. "Unrolled" is used about 35 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 (past tense) | 51.43% | 18 | 82,615 |
| Lexical Verb (past participle) | 45.71% | 16 | 87,710 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 2.86% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 35 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "unrolled"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Chinese | 展开 (splay, uncoil, uncoiled, unfold, unfolded, unroll). (various references) | ||||||||||
German | rollte ab, aufgerollt, abgerollt. (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | olledunray развертывать развернутый (deployed, unwrapped). (various references) | ||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"Unrolled" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Burntollet, Nurullo, unrole, unruled. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-l-l-n-o-r-u" | |
-1 letter: roundel. | |
-2 letters: duello, duller, enduro, enroll, louden, louder, loured, nodule, nulled, nurled, rolled, rondel, rundle, undoer, unroll. | |
-3 letters: droll, drone, enrol, loden, loner, lured, nerol, nuder, olden, older, redon, rouen, round, ruled, under, unled, uredo. | |
-4 letters: dell, doer, dole, doll, done, dore, dour, duel, dull, dune, dure, durn, duro, enol, euro, lend, leno, leud. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-l-l-n-o-r-u" | |
+3 letters: groundswell, scoundrelly, unsoldierly, wonderfully. | |
+4 letters: groundlessly, groundswells, slanderously, uncontrolled. | |
+5 letters: incredulously, unworldliness. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)55 6E 72 6F 6C 6C 65 64 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)..- -. .-. --- .-.. .-.. . -.. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010101 01101110 01110010 01101111 01101100 01101100 01100101 01100100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)U n r o l l e d |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0055 006E 0072 006F 006C 006C 0065 0064 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5580848178787170 |
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