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unwind

verbenomattesté dans les dialogues

  • //ʌnˈwaɪnd//

To separate (something that is wound up)

verbe

  1. 1

    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?

  2. 2

    obsolèteTo disentangle

    […]but being not so skilful as in every point to unwind themselves where the snares of glossing speech do lie to entangle them,[…]

  3. 3

    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.

  4. 4

    To be or become unwound; to be capable of being unwound or untwisted.

  5. 5

    To close out a position, especially a complicated position.

  6. 6

    To undo something.

  7. 7

    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.

  8. 8

    Synonym of unroll (“replace a loop with a sequence”).

  9. 9

    figuréTo unravel or explain.

Étymologie

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”).

nom

  1. 1

    Any mechanism or operation that unwinds something.

    The NEWPC argument specifies the address to which control should be returned after the unwind is complete. If it is omitted, its default is for control to return to the PC saved in the call frame next outermost to the unwound ones.

    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.

Formes

pluriel
unwinds
passé
unwound
participe passé
unwound
participe présent
unwinding
3ᵉ personne du singulier
unwinds
Les pages voisinesL'ordre alphabétique suit les règles de la langue, pas la valeur des octets : un accent ne départage que deux mots par ailleurs identiques, et l'espagnol range le Ñ comme une lettre à part entière.

Contenu lexical issu du Wiktionary, sous licence CC BY-SA 4.0 · Entrée d'origine · Version des données 2026-08-23

Rang parmi les mots du corpus OpenSubtitles 2018 — des sous-titres de films et de séries, donc de la langue parlée et non écrite (CC BY-SA 3.0).