Definition of unfold

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Unfold (v. t.) To open, as anything covered or close; to lay open to view or contemplation; to bring out in all the details, or by successive development; to display; to disclose; to reveal; to elucidate; to explain; as, to unfold one's designs; to unfold the principles of a science..

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Mantle :: Mantle (v. i.) To unfold and spread out the wings, like a mantle; -- said of hawks. Also used figuratively..
Explicate :: Explicate (v. t.) To unfold the meaning or sense of; to explain; to clear of difficulties or obscurity; to interpret.
Quire :: Quire (n.) A collection of twenty-four sheets of paper of the same size and quality, unfolded or having a single fold; one twentieth of a ream..
Displayed :: Displayed (a.) Unfolded; expanded; exhibited conspicuously or ostentatiously.
Unfurl :: Unfurl (v. t. & i.) To loose from a furled state; to unfold; to expand; to open or spread; as, to unfurl sails; to unfurl a flag..
Development :: Development (n.) The act of developing or disclosing that which is unknown; a gradual unfolding process by which anything is developed, as a plan or method, or an image upon a photographic plate; gradual advancement or growth through a series of progressive changes; also, the result of developing, or a developed state..
Unplat :: Unplat (v. t.) To take out the folds or twists of, as something previously platted; to unfold; to unwreathe..
Development :: Development (n.) The elaboration of a theme or subject; the unfolding of a musical idea; the evolution of a whole piece or movement from a leading theme or motive.
Develop :: Develop (v. t.) To unfold gradually, as a flower from a bud; hence, to bring through a succession of states or stages, each of which is preparatory to the next; to form or expand by a process of growth; to cause to change gradually from an embryo, or a lower state, to a higher state or form of being; as, sunshine and rain develop the bud into a flower; to develop the mind..
Unclew :: Unclew (v. t.) To unwind, unfold, or untie; hence, to undo; to ruin..
Unweave :: Unweave (v. t.) To unfold; to undo; to ravel, as what has been woven..
Develop :: Develop (v. t.) To free from that which infolds or envelops; to unfold; to lay open by degrees or in detail; to make visible or known; to disclose; to produce or give forth; as, to develop theories; a motor that develops 100 horse power..
Explicative :: Explicative (a.) Serving to unfold or explain; tending to lay open to the understanding; explanatory.
Anagnorisis :: Anagnorisis (n.) The unfolding or denouement.
Frondesce :: Frondesce (v. i.) To unfold leaves, as plants..
Unfoldment :: Unfoldment (n.) The acct of unfolding, or the state of being unfolded..
Un- :: Un- () An inseparable verbal prefix or particle. It is prefixed: (a) To verbs to express the contrary, and not the simple negative, of the action of the verb to which it is prefixed; as in uncoil, undo, unfold. (b) To nouns to form verbs expressing privation of the thing, quality, or state expressed by the noun, or separation from it; as in unchild, unsex. Sometimes particles and participial adjectives formed with this prefix coincide in form with compounds of the negative prefix un- (see 2d Un-
Display :: Display (n.) An opening or unfolding; exhibition; manifestation.
Believer :: Believer (n.) One who gives credit to the truth of the Scriptures, as a revelation from God; a Christian; -- in a more restricted sense, one who receives Christ as his Savior, and accepts the way of salvation unfolded in the gospel..
Ovulist :: Ovulist (n.) A believer in the theory (called encasement theory), current during the last century, that the egg was the real animal germ, and that at the time of fecundation the spermatozoa simply gave the impetus which caused the unfolding of the egg, in which all generations were inclosed one within the other. Also called ovist..
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