unwind.
To separate (something that is wound up)
Meaning & usage
To separate (something that is wound up)
to unwind a ball of yarn
Could you unwind about a foot of ribbon so I can finish the package?
To disentangle
To relax; to chill out; to rest and become relieved of stress
After work, I like to unwind by smoking a pipe while reading the paper.
To be or become unwound; to be capable of being unwound or untwisted.
To close out a position, especially a complicated position.
To undo something.
To navigate back through (a call stack) so as to generate a stack trace etc.
Synonym of unroll (“replace a loop with a sequence”).
To unravel or explain.
Where this word comes from
From Middle English unwinden, from Old English unwindan (“to unwind; unwrap”), from Proto-Germanic *andawindaną (“to unwind”); equivalent to un- + wind (“to coil”). Cognate with Dutch ontwinden (“to unwind”).
Any mechanism or operation that unwinds something.
Where this word comes from
From Middle English unwinden, from Old English unwindan (“to unwind; unwrap”), from Proto-Germanic *andawindaną (“to unwind”); equivalent to un- + wind (“to coil”). Cognate with Dutch ontwinden (“to unwind”).
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