Word Meanings - UNFURL - Book Publishers vocabulary database
To loose from a furled state; to unfold; to expand; to open or spread; as, to unfurl sails; to unfurl a flag.
Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of UNFURL)
- Spread
- Extend
- stretch
- expand
- open
- unfurl
- divulge
- propagate
- publish
- disperse
- diffuse
- overlay
- distribute
- scatter
- circulate
- disseminate
- ramify
Related words: (words related to UNFURL)
- SPREADINGLY
, adv. Increasingly. The best times were spreadingly infected. Milton. - PUBLISH
Etym: 1. To make public; to make known to mankind, or to people in general; to divulge, as a private transaction; to promulgate or proclaim, as a law or an edict. Published was the bounty of her name. Chaucer. The unwearied sun, from day to day, - PUBLISHER
One who publishes; as, a publisher of a book or magazine. For love of you, not hate unto my friend, Hath made me publisher of this pretense. Shak. - EXPAND
To become widely opened, spread apart, dilated, distended, or enlarged; as, flowers expand in the spring; metals expand by heat; the heart expands with joy. Dryden. - UNFURL
To loose from a furled state; to unfold; to expand; to open or spread; as, to unfurl sails; to unfurl a flag. - EXTENDLESSNESS
Unlimited extension. An . . . extendlessness of excursions. Sir. M. Hale. - DIFFUSED
Spread abroad; dispersed; loose; flowing; diffuse. It grew to be a widely diffused opinion. Hawthorne. -- Dif*fus"ed*ly, adv. -- Dif*fus"ed*ness, n. - EXTENDANT
Displaced. Ogilvie. - DISPERSED
Scattered. -- Dis*pers"ed*ly, adv. -- Dis*pers"ed*ness, n. Dispersed harmony , harmony in which the tones composing the chord are widely separated, as by an octave or more. - SPREAD-EAGLED
1. To place in a spread-eagle position, especially as a means of punishment. 2. being in a position with the arms and legs extended fully. - EXTEND
To value, as lands taken by a writ of extent in satisfaction of a debt; to assign by writ of extent. Extended letter , a letter, or style of type, having a broader face than is usual for a letter or type of the same height. Note: This is extended - SPREAD-EAGLE
Characterized by a pretentious, boastful, exaggerated style; defiantly or extravagantly bombastic; as, a spread-eagle orator; a spread-eagle speech. - EXTENDIBLE
Liable to be taken by a writ of extent. (more info) 1. Capable of being extended, susceptible of being stretched, extended, enlarged, widened, or expanded. - SCATTERLING
One who has no fixed habitation or residence; a vagabond. "Foreign scatterlings." Spenser. - EXPANDER
Anything which causes expansion esp. a tool for stretching open or expanding a tube, etc. - DIFFUSER
One who, or that which, diffuses. - SCATTER-BRAIN
A giddy or thoughtless person; one incapable of concentration or attention. - STRETCHING
from Stretch, v. Stretching course , a course or series of stretchers. See Stretcher, 2. Britton. - OVERLAYING
A superficial covering; a coating. - DIFFUSE
To pour out and cause to spread, as a fluid; to cause to flow on all sides; to send out, or extend, in all directions; to spread; to circulate; to disseminate; to scatter; as to diffuse information. Thence diffuse His good to worlds and - BESCATTER
1. To scatter over. 2. To cover sparsely by scattering ; to strew. "With flowers bescattered." Spenser. - REPUBLISH
To publish anew; specifically, to publish in one country (a work first published in another); also, to revive by re Subsecquent to the purchase or contract, the devisor republished his will. Blackstone. - OVERLAY
To put an overlay on. (more info) 1. To lay, or spread, something over or across; hence, to cover; to overwhelm; to press excessively upon. When any country is overlaid by the multitude which live upon it. Sir W. Raleigh. As when a cloud his beams - BEDSPREAD
A bedquilt; a counterpane; a coverlet. - DISPREAD
To spread abroad, or different ways; to spread apart; to open; as, the sun dispreads his beams. Spenser. - OUTSPREAD
To spread out; to expand; -- usually as a past part. or adj. - INDISPERSED
Not dispersed.