Sekirov Dictionary

unwind

/ʌnˈwaɪnd/

verb 9
noun 1
forms 4

verb9

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To separate (something that is wound up)
- Could you unwind about a foot of ribbon so I can finish the package?
•
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.
(figurative) To unravel or explain.
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To navigate back through (a call stack) so as to generate a stack trace etc.
- If the expression is a throw, we unwind the stack seeking a handler expression. — 2006
Synonym of unroll (“replace a loop with a sequence”).
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(no longer used) To disentangle
- […]but being not so skilful as in every point to unwind themselves where the snares of glossing speech do lie to entangle them,[…] — 1836

noun1

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Any mechanism or operation that unwinds something.
- A primary function of the unwind is to provide a guided web into the slitter rewinder for accuracy in locating the web for slitting or to realign the edge of the web in a straight rewinding operation. — 1998

forms

unwound · unwinding · unwindeth · unwinds

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