halt vs unfold

halt

verb
  • To cause to discontinue. 

  • To be lame, faulty, or defective, as in connection with ideas, or in measure, or in versification. 

  • To bring to a stop. 

  • To limp; move with a limping gait. 

  • To stand in doubt whether to proceed, or what to do; hesitate; be uncertain; linger; delay; mammer. 

  • To falter. 

  • To stop marching. 

  • To stop either temporarily or permanently. 

  • To waver. 

noun
  • A minor railway station (usually unstaffed) in the United Kingdom. 

  • A cessation, either temporary or permanent. 

unfold

verb
  • To undo a folding. 

  • To release from a fold or pen. 

  • To turn out; to happen; to develop. 

  • To open (anything covered or closed); to lay open to view or contemplation; to bring out in all the details, or by successive development. 

  • To reveal. 

noun
  • In functional programming, a kind of higher-order function that is the opposite of a fold. 

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