Unroll
verb
To open something that has been rolled up.
He unrolled his sleeping bag on the tent floor
Often appears as...
- unroll a carpet
- unroll a map
verb
To make clear or known.
They unrolled their plans for the new project
Often appears as...
- unroll a plan
- unroll a proposal
verb
To happen or appear in a series of events or stages.
The discussion unrolled gradually over two hours
Often appears as...
- unroll events
- unroll a debate
verb
To open something that has been rolled up.
He unrolled his sleeping bag on the tent floor
Often appears as...
- unroll a carpet
- unroll a map
verb
To make clear or known.
They unrolled their plans for the new project
Often appears as...
- unroll a plan
- unroll a proposal
verb
To happen or appear in a series of events or stages.
The discussion unrolled gradually over two hours
Often appears as...
- unroll events
- unroll a debate
Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/3Physical Action
Used when describing an action involving physical rolling or unrolling of an object.
She carefully unrolled the ancient scroll.
Pro Tip 2/3Preparation Step
Indicates an item is being prepared for use or display by unrolling it.
Unroll the yoga mat before the class starts.
Pro Tip 3/3Visual Impact
Suggests an immediate visual change in the environment upon unrolling something.
Unroll the banner so everyone can see our team's motto.
Pro Tip 1/3Physical Action
Used when describing an action involving physical rolling or unrolling of an object.
She carefully unrolled the ancient scroll.
Pro Tip 2/3Preparation Step
Indicates an item is being prepared for use or display by unrolling it.
Unroll the yoga mat before the class starts.
Pro Tip 3/3Visual Impact
Suggests an immediate visual change in the environment upon unrolling something.
Unroll the banner so everyone can see our team's motto.
Pro Tip 1/3Physical Action
Used when describing an action involving physical rolling or unrolling of an object.
She carefully unrolled the ancient scroll.
Pro Tip 2/3Preparation Step
Indicates an item is being prepared for use or display by unrolling it.
Unroll the yoga mat before the class starts.
Pro Tip 3/3Visual Impact
Suggests an immediate visual change in the environment upon unrolling something.
Unroll the banner so everyone can see our team's motto.
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How the James Webb Space...
And you'd say, is there any way you could have done this without this great telescope? And the answer seems to be no. You need a big telescope. It needs to be in outer space. It needs to be cold, so it doesn’t glow and emit its own infrared. And third is, being very carefully unrolled all by commands from here.
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Michael Levin: The...
And so when you have tadpoles, for example, you see the kind of thing that most people think is sort of a progressive unrolling of the genome. Specific genes turn on and off, and a tadpole, as it becomes a frog, has to rearrange its face. So the eyes, the nostrils, the jaws -- everything has to move.
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Safari Live - Day 276 PIPE...
together now it's actually my fault because I was so far away that it didn't notice that that's what they had found that is ridiculous now come on little one you're gonna have to unroll at some point so that we can see you this is insane guys this is a penguin that is
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The surprising origins...
About a dozen others are substantial, but most are mere fragments. New pieces of Sappho’s songs probably will be found. Some may already be sitting in museum archives, to be revealed when technology allows scholars to read through scrolls too fragile to unroll.
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Heribert Watzke: The...
This is the layer which actually touches the food you are swallowing and you digest, which is actually the lumen. Now if you think about the gut, the gut is -- if you could stretch it -- 40 meters long, the length of a tennis court. If we could unroll it,
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Guardians of the...
is to help us unroll the livelihoods and the development of people. I essentially manage the operations, recruitment and field expedition and science expeditions. And of recent, we have also included an education expedition which is led by myself.
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4 Lessons in Creativity...
— to roll, to crease, to fold — more than a hundred of them, and as he said, he just started playing around. He did these things to all kinds of material. He would take a huge sheet of lead and roll it up and unroll it. He would do the same thing
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Beautiful Butterfly...
feet so that would mean i'd be tasting my socks or something yeah pretty much so they've got these uh these things in their feet called chemoreceptors and when they land on something sweet it tells their proboscis to unroll and to drink
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The Making of Jane -...
so we could at least see everything grouped in succession so we could get a sense of what we had. JANE And it was very emotional for me to just see my life unrolling. There was more about my personal life
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How to read the genome...
take out this crystal, unroll it, and read it for the first time. The code comes out to be a fairly simple alphabet, four A, T, C and G.
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How the James Webb Space...
And you'd say, is there any way you could have done this without this great telescope? And the answer seems to be no. You need a big telescope. It needs to be in outer space. It needs to be cold, so it doesn’t glow and emit its own infrared. And third is, being very carefully unrolled all by commands from here.
Video examples
Michael Levin: The...
And so when you have tadpoles, for example, you see the kind of thing that most people think is sort of a progressive unrolling of the genome. Specific genes turn on and off, and a tadpole, as it becomes a frog, has to rearrange its face. So the eyes, the nostrils, the jaws -- everything has to move.
Video examples
Safari Live - Day 276 PIPE...
together now it's actually my fault because I was so far away that it didn't notice that that's what they had found that is ridiculous now come on little one you're gonna have to unroll at some point so that we can see you this is insane guys this is a penguin that is
Video examples
The surprising origins...
About a dozen others are substantial, but most are mere fragments. New pieces of Sappho’s songs probably will be found. Some may already be sitting in museum archives, to be revealed when technology allows scholars to read through scrolls too fragile to unroll.
Video examples
Heribert Watzke: The...
This is the layer which actually touches the food you are swallowing and you digest, which is actually the lumen. Now if you think about the gut, the gut is -- if you could stretch it -- 40 meters long, the length of a tennis court. If we could unroll it,
Video examples
Guardians of the...
is to help us unroll the livelihoods and the development of people. I essentially manage the operations, recruitment and field expedition and science expeditions. And of recent, we have also included an education expedition which is led by myself.
Video examples
4 Lessons in Creativity...
— to roll, to crease, to fold — more than a hundred of them, and as he said, he just started playing around. He did these things to all kinds of material. He would take a huge sheet of lead and roll it up and unroll it. He would do the same thing
Video examples
Beautiful Butterfly...
feet so that would mean i'd be tasting my socks or something yeah pretty much so they've got these uh these things in their feet called chemoreceptors and when they land on something sweet it tells their proboscis to unroll and to drink
Video examples
The Making of Jane -...
so we could at least see everything grouped in succession so we could get a sense of what we had. JANE And it was very emotional for me to just see my life unrolling. There was more about my personal life
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How to read the genome...
take out this crystal, unroll it, and read it for the first time. The code comes out to be a fairly simple alphabet, four A, T, C and G.
Example 1 of 10
Quote examples
Rob Riggle
American Actor
Just take yourself back to September 2001. As that month went on, and as that autumn unrolled, everybody wanted to do something. How can I help? Do you want my blood? Do you want money for the victims? I was a captain in the Marine Corps. I knew what I could do. I was right there. I was ready. I saw it. I moved the rubble with my own hands.
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Henri Cartier-Bresson
French Photographer
Above all, I craved to seize the whole essence, in the confines of one single photograph, of some situation that was in the process of unrolling itself before my eyes.
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James Green Somerville
American Clergyman
I began to pray those same fervent prayers, lying in bed at night, hoping to see a scroll unrolled from the ceiling with a message from God just for me.
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Colleen Atwood
American Designer
I really don't over-theorize about design. I'd rather feel it than talk it to death. A lot happens as you unroll the design.
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Jane Siberry
Canadian Musician
Every night is different, a ball of thread that unrolls differently.
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Alexander Smith
Scottish Poet
I go into my library and all history unrolls before me.
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Rob Riggle
American Actor
Just take yourself back to September 2001. As that month went on, and as that autumn unrolled, everybody wanted to do something. How can I help? Do you want my blood? Do you want money for the victims? I was a captain in the Marine Corps. I knew what I could do. I was right there. I was ready. I saw it. I moved the rubble with my own hands.
Quote examples
Henri Cartier-Bresson
French Photographer
Above all, I craved to seize the whole essence, in the confines of one single photograph, of some situation that was in the process of unrolling itself before my eyes.
Quote examples
James Green Somerville
American Clergyman
I began to pray those same fervent prayers, lying in bed at night, hoping to see a scroll unrolled from the ceiling with a message from God just for me.
Quote examples
Colleen Atwood
American Designer
I really don't over-theorize about design. I'd rather feel it than talk it to death. A lot happens as you unroll the design.
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Jane Siberry
Canadian Musician
Every night is different, a ball of thread that unrolls differently.
Quote examples
Alexander Smith
Scottish Poet
I go into my library and all history unrolls before me.
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