What's the difference between roll and unfurl?

Roll


Definition:

  • (n.) To cause to revolve by turning over and over; to move by turning on an axis; to impel forward by causing to turn over and over on a supporting surface; as, to roll a wheel, a ball, or a barrel.
  • (n.) To wrap round on itself; to form into a spherical or cylindrical body by causing to turn over and over; as, to roll a sheet of paper; to roll parchment; to roll clay or putty into a ball.
  • (n.) To bind or involve by winding, as in a bandage; to inwrap; -- often with up; as, to roll up a parcel.
  • (n.) To drive or impel forward with an easy motion, as of rolling; as, a river rolls its waters to the ocean.
  • (n.) To utter copiously, esp. with sounding words; to utter with a deep sound; -- often with forth, or out; as, to roll forth some one's praises; to roll out sentences.
  • (n.) To press or level with a roller; to spread or form with a roll, roller, or rollers; as, to roll a field; to roll paste; to roll steel rails, etc.
  • (n.) To move, or cause to be moved, upon, or by means of, rollers or small wheels.
  • (n.) To beat with rapid, continuous strokes, as a drum; to sound a roll upon.
  • (n.) To apply (one line or surface) to another without slipping; to bring all the parts of (one line or surface) into successive contact with another, in suck manner that at every instant the parts that have been in contact are equal.
  • (n.) To turn over in one's mind; to revolve.
  • (v. i.) To move, as a curved object may, along a surface by rotation without sliding; to revolve upon an axis; to turn over and over; as, a ball or wheel rolls on the earth; a body rolls on an inclined plane.
  • (v. i.) To move on wheels; as, the carriage rolls along the street.
  • (v. i.) To be wound or formed into a cylinder or ball; as, the cloth rolls unevenly; the snow rolls well.
  • (v. i.) To fall or tumble; -- with over; as, a stream rolls over a precipice.
  • (v. i.) To perform a periodical revolution; to move onward as with a revolution; as, the rolling year; ages roll away.
  • (v. i.) To turn; to move circularly.
  • (v. i.) To move, as waves or billows, with alternate swell and depression.
  • (v. i.) To incline first to one side, then to the other; to rock; as, there is a great difference in ships about rolling; in a general semse, to be tossed about.
  • (v. i.) To turn over, or from side to side, while lying down; to wallow; as, a horse rolls.
  • (v. i.) To spread under a roller or rolling-pin; as, the paste rolls well.
  • (v. i.) To beat a drum with strokes so rapid that they can scarcely be distinguished by the ear.
  • (v. i.) To make a loud or heavy rumbling noise; as, the thunder rolls.
  • (v.) The act of rolling, or state of being rolled; as, the roll of a ball; the roll of waves.
  • (v.) That which rolls; a roller.
  • (v.) A heavy cylinder used to break clods.
  • (v.) One of a set of revolving cylinders, or rollers, between which metal is pressed, formed, or smoothed, as in a rolling mill; as, to pass rails through the rolls.
  • (v.) That which is rolled up; as, a roll of fat, of wool, paper, cloth, etc.
  • (v.) A document written on a piece of parchment, paper, or other materials which may be rolled up; a scroll.
  • (v.) Hence, an official or public document; a register; a record; also, a catalogue; a list.
  • (v.) A quantity of cloth wound into a cylindrical form; as, a roll of carpeting; a roll of ribbon.
  • (v.) A cylindrical twist of tobacco.
  • (v.) A kind of shortened raised biscuit or bread, often rolled or doubled upon itself.
  • (v.) The oscillating movement of a vessel from side to side, in sea way, as distinguished from the alternate rise and fall of bow and stern called pitching.
  • (v.) A heavy, reverberatory sound; as, the roll of cannon, or of thunder.
  • (v.) The uniform beating of a drum with strokes so rapid as scarcely to be distinguished by the ear.
  • (v.) Part; office; duty; role.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The adaptive filter processor was tested for retrospective identification of artifacts in 20 male volunteers who performed the following specific movements between epochs of quiet, supine breathing: raising arms and legs (slowly, quickly, once, and several times), sitting up, breathing deeply and rapidly, and rolling from a supine to a lateral decubitus position.
  • (2) More evil than Clocky , the alarm clock that rolls away when you reach out to silence it, or the Puzzle Alarm , which makes you complete a simple puzzle before it'll go quiet, the Money Shredding Alarm Clock methodically destroys your cash unless you rouse yourself.
  • (3) Speaking to pro-market thinktank Reform, Milburn called for “more competition” and said the shadow health team were making a “fundamental political misjudgment” by attempting to roll back policies he had overseen.
  • (4) Light microscopic histochemical procedures and morphological assessments were performed on sections of "Swiss rolls" of small and large intestine.
  • (5) Neither assertion was strictly accurate, but Obama was on a rhetorical roll.
  • (6) Under pressure from many backbenchers, he has tightened planning controls on windfarms and pledged to "roll back" green subsidies on bills, leading to fears of dwindling support for the renewables industry.
  • (7) Rolling-circle replicating structures which represent late stage lambda DNA replication can be detected among intracellular phage lambda DNA molecules under recombination deficient conditions as well as in wild-type infections.
  • (8) If this is the only issue, flight would be fine, but need to make sure that it isn’t symptomatic of a more significant upstream root cause.” Elon Musk (@elonmusk) Btw, 99% likely to be fine (closed loop TVC wd overcome error), but that 1% chance isn't worth rolling the dice.
  • (9) If such a system were rolled out nationally, central government could escape political pressure to ringfence NHS funding.
  • (10) It was also chided for failing to roll out a 2011 pilot scheme to put doors on fridges in its stores.
  • (11) I’ve warned Dave before to mind his ps and qs when the cameras are rolling, but the problem is you can never tell when the microphones are switched on.
  • (12) A commercial medical writing company is employed by a drug company to produce papers that can be rolled out in academic journals to build a brand message.
  • (13) Roll-up man 3.50pm GMT Thank you to Tom Skinner for this educational and informative video .
  • (14) flexion, stretch, rolling, startle, jumping (stepping), and writhing.
  • (15) The first problem facing Calderdale is sheep-rustling Happy Valley – filmed around Hebden Bridge, with its beautiful stone houses straight off the pages of the Guardian’s Lets Move To – may be filled with rolling hills and verdant pastures, but the reality of rural issues are harsh.
  • (16) In earlier studies with the SV40-transformed hamster cell line Elona two different types of DNA amplification could be identified: (i) Bidirectional overreplication of chromosomally integrated SV40 DNA expanding into the flanking cellular sequences ("onion skin" type) and (ii) highly efficient synthesis of extremely large head-to-tail concatemers containing exclusively SV40 DNA ("rolling circle" type).
  • (17) Trousers were cropped or rolled at the ankle, a styling trick that is emerging as a trend across the shows.
  • (18) During powder compaction on a Manesty Betapress, peak pressures, Pmax, are reached before the punches are vertically aligned with the centres of the upper and lower compression roll support pins.
  • (19) In 1995, Bill Gates, founder and CEO at Microsoft, reportedly paid The Rolling Stones $3m (£1.9m) for the rights to use Start Me Up to launch Windows 95.
  • (20) During flexion the lateral femoral condyle displays near extension pure rolling, near flexion pure gliding, on the medial side this ratio is vice versa.

Unfurl


Definition:

  • (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.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The rally – reminiscent of the Occupy-style rallies that started in 2011 – started outside the FCC’s Washington headquarters at noon with protesters from Fight For the Future, Popular Resistance and others unfurling banners reading “Save the Internet”.
  • (2) Then the parachute unfurled and guided the vehicle to an ocean splashdown about three hours later.
  • (3) A Palestinian flag was unfurled on the floor of the general assembly after the vote.
  • (4) Across a narrow seafront road, a camp for people fleeing drought and fighting has unfurled in the sandy nothingness.
  • (5) After it touched down, Chang'e 3's solar panels, which are used to generate power from sunlight, unfurled and the spacecraft began transmitting pictures back to Earth.
  • (6) Kaepernick and Reid dropped to one knee while a naval officer sang The Star-Spangled Banner and dozens of military members unfurled an oversize flag at the Chargers’ Qualcomm stadium.
  • (7) Defour’s status at his former club fell to pariah and caused a graphic banner to be unfurled when he returned to the Stade Maurice Dufrasne in Anderlecht colours.
  • (8) "Belief Beyond Reason" reads the Tifo unfurled by the Timbers fans.
  • (9) Maradona is better than Pelé.” Venezuelans make political protest against president Fifa theoretically bans political slogans from World Cup stadiums but this did not stop a group of Venezuelans from unfurling a giant banner protesting against the government of Nicolás Maduro, the president.
  • (10) But without fans football is not worth a penny” was unfurled before fans started to fill up the section after five minutes of play, with Arsenal supporters breaking into a round of applause to welcome them.
  • (11) Later, protesters unfurled a large rainbow flag in front of the store and read out the testimonies through a megaphone and called for the support of their right to families.
  • (12) He had not even waved a Ukrainian flag at the gathering, but was accused of “standing near” the flag and of not stopping others from unfurling flags, including one which said “Crimea is Ukraine”.
  • (13) But once a patient is right to be discharged, they should be discharged and cared for in accordance with Australian and international law.” On Thursday, protesters abseiled from the Yarra Bend bridge over the Eastern Freeway in Melbourne, unfurling a banner reading #LetThemStay.
  • (14) At this demonstration – where nobody’s nose even bled – a banner was unfurled: “I stand with you, Master!” Turkish officials claim 'concrete evidence' of Isis link to bombings Read more “Master” is a nickname given to the president by his sympathisers.
  • (15) Instead the flag will now be unfurled at the council's headquarters on 17 designated days.
  • (16) I don’t understand how a defendant in the same case with the same evidence … is on the beach in Australia,” said Fahmy, after unfurling an Egyptian flag to demonstrate that his heart remained Egyptian despite being encouraged by officials to give up his citizenship.
  • (17) That should have been that and provided Wenger with good cause to leave with a smile on his face, but as the Arsenal players celebrated at the final whistle, a banner was unfurled in the visiting end by a small group of supporters calling for the manager to pack his bags.
  • (18) The Portuguese’s name was chorused throughout as a number of banners were unfurled around the arena prior to kick-off, one reading: “Hang your heads in shame,” summing up the poisonous mood, with both Fàbregas and Costa jeered when their names were read out before kick-off.
  • (19) At a Middlesbrough football match two weekends ago, vast banners were unfurled, saying "Being Poor is Not Entertainment".
  • (20) They plan to unfurl a banner in protest of Arctic offshore drilling but have no plans to interfere with the ship’s navigations, he said.