(v. t.) To open, as what is rolled or convolved; as, to unroll cloth; to unroll a banner.
(v. t.) To display; to reveal.
(v. t.) To remove from a roll or register, as a name.
Example Sentences:
(1) Cerebral angiogram displayed a contralateral shift and an unrolling of the anterior cerebral artery, a lateral stretch of middle cerebral artery, a downward stretch of anterior choroidal artery and a tumor stain fed by the Heubner artery.
(2) The red carpets are being unrolled, the paparazzi are installing their stepladders, the dressmakers are rushing their schmutters to the airport – the Cannes film festival is finally upon us.
(3) More than 80 percent required correction in such things as opening the package, determining the outside of the condom, unrolling the condom to the base of the penis, and expressing air from the space at the tip of the penis.
(4) The detergent removes the membrane and many axonemes unroll, always in an organized fashion so that doublets follow one another in sequence, according to the enantiomorphic form of the cilium.
(5) This was going to be the viewpoint, and it began to unroll like a cinema film.
(6) The Republican governor of Alabama, Robert J Bentley, has chosen this day for his inauguration to his second term and a parade is planned; a red carpet is being unrolled on the capitol steps.
(7) The area of the unrolled myelin sheet of internodes of myelinated fibers (MF) of peripheral nerve is thought to be determined by axonal caliber and internodal length.
(8) It went on to tour in New York, Chicago, Ottawa and Berkeley, and Soleri soon became a regular feature on the international lecture circuit, staging sell-out performances where he would theatrically unroll his great drawings across the stage.
(9) Blow me, but in 15 days' time, a bright green carpet will be unrolled in Leicester Square and Franny Armstrong , now 35, better travelled but just as singleminded, will trip down it in the company of A-list celebs, to a specially constructed solar-powered cinema.
(10) The internal organization of this axon population was analysed by topologically transforming the cortical surface from its in situ cylindrical form into an unrolled (flattened) map.
(11) Standing on two feet, barefoot with fixed upright posture; 2. dynamic unrolling of the bare-footed human footsole with constant walking speed.
(12) I believe that we are best as a party when we lead with our principles and not according to the polls.” Karol said O’Malley did not appear to be unrolling a campaign for the vice-presidency.
(13) The carotid angiogram showed an unrolling of the pericallosal artery, but no findings of space taking lesions.
(14) A single change allows the heart to be "unrolled" into a plane for roentgenographic study of injected coronary arteries.
(15) Gaze out on to the silvery surf unrolling behind your cruise liner?
(16) These observations are expressed in a schematic summary of the trajectories of olfactory bulb efferents as they appear in the unrolled map and in the more standard ventral view of the hamster brain.
(17) Now that the weather has finally brightened up, we should be unrolling the picnic blankets.
(18) "They are very well-known as images," said Gallagher, "but they have not been brought together ever before, and we want to show the unravelling and unrolling of an entire career."
(19) The public relations effort unrolled by the State Department also ventured into legal terrain, according to the report.
(20) The government unrolled a package of measures that would give career guidance and work placements to all unemployed people under 25 in some of the poorest suburbs; there would be tax breaks for companies who set up on sink estates; a €1,000 (£675) lump sum for jobless people who returned to work as well as €150 a month for a year; 5,000 extra teachers and educational assistants; 10,000 scholarships to encourage academic achievers to stay at school; and 10 boarding schools for those who want to leave their estates to study.
Unwind
Definition:
(v. t.) To wind off; to loose or separate, as what or convolved; to untwist; to untwine; as, to unwind thread; to unwind a ball of yarn.
(v. t.) To disentangle.
(v. i.) To be or become unwound; to be capable of being unwound or untwisted.
Example Sentences:
(1) Unlike cisplatin, bis(platinum) complex binding does not unwind supercoiled DNA.
(2) Of the 47 compounds that were positive or equivocal in the alkaline unwinding assay, only carbon tetrachloride and prednisolone were negative in the mouse lymphoma assay, while 12 of the 19 compounds that were negative in the alkaline unwinding assay were positive in the mouse lymphoma assay.
(3) As suggested from the high level of sequence similarity of these viral proteins with the recently described superfamilies of helicase-like proteins (3-5), the NTBM-containing cylindrical inclusion (CI) protein from plum pox virus (PPV), which belongs to the potyvirus group of positive strand RNA viruses, is shown to be able to unwind RNA duplexes.
(4) This limited unwinding of heterologous duplex DNA, termed heterologous unwinding, was detected within 30 seconds and reached a steady state within a few minutes.
(5) Comparison of the superhelix densities obtained by both methods permits a calculation of an unwinding angle for ethidium.
(6) The exposure of the cells from mussel haemolymph and from mouse L1210 to a genotoxic compound such as dimethylsulfate results in DNA damage and consequently in a reduction of the unwinding time.
(7) As for unwinding, the rituals of it give a satisfying end to the shape of my day.
(8) Chromosome replication appears to initiate in E. coli when the dnaA boxes in oriC become filled with DnaA protein, which could simultaneously mediate both the unwinding of the origin for the start of polymerization and the attachment of oriC to the cell envelope (Bramhill and Kornberg, 1988; Løbner-Olesen et al., 1989; Pierucci et al., 1989).
(9) The protein fraction containing the 93 000 dalton protein had considerable unwinding activity, depressing the melting temperature of poly(dA-dT) by 39 degrees C. The protein fraction containing the bulk of the 35 000 dalton protein did not have unwinding activity.
(10) The required cellular protein may be a eukaryotic single-stranded-DNA-binding protein (SSB), since unwinding of the template is also observed when Escherichia coli SSB is substituted for the HeLa protein fraction.
(11) Evidence is presented that the first step in initiation of SV40 DNA replication involves the specific binding of T antigen to the origin, followed by the local unwinding of the two strands of the template.
(12) Complex formation leads to very little, if any, unwinding of the duplex.
(13) It is suggested that the gene D product may function in replicative form DNA unwinding to expose the template for transcription.
(14) Topotecan (SK&F 104864) is a novel antitumor agent whose mechanism of action is inhibition of the DNA unwinding protein topoisomerase I.
(15) We used an RNA unwinding assay to compare the activities of these factors from the different species.
(16) The extension and unwinding of the DNA helix brought about by the intercalating chromophore of the dye molecules are not requirements for the entrapment process.
(17) Second, mutant T antigens with impaired ATPase function also showed a reduced DNA unwinding activity.
(18) Analysts at UBS said: “After Friday’s ... market plunge, many turned to the authorities for support measures as concerns rose that the rapid unwinding of margin trades was fuelling the sell-off.
(19) It is proposed that the DNA-unwinding activity causes the efficient recombination, DNA repair, and SOS induction (after application of nalidixic acid) in recD mutants.
(20) But within minutes of the five-year-old video of Obama being released by the Daily Caller website on Tuesday night , the "exclusive" began to unwind amid criticism that much of it had been reported at the time and the content was anything but explosive.