seam vs unfold

seam

verb
  • To crack open along a seam. 

  • Of a bowler, to make the ball move thus. 

  • To mark with a seam or line; to scar. 

  • To put together with a seam. 

  • Of the ball, to move sideways after bouncing on the seam. 

  • To make the appearance of a seam in, as in knitting a stocking; hence, to knit with a certain stitch, like that in such knitting. 

noun
  • The stitched equatorial seam of a cricket ball; the sideways movement of a ball when it bounces on the seam. 

  • A line of junction; a joint. 

  • A thin stratum, especially of an economically viable material such as coal or mineral. 

  • An old English measure of grain, containing eight bushels. 

  • A suture. 

  • A line or depression left by a cut or wound; a scar; a cicatrix. 

  • A folded-back and stitched piece of fabric; especially, the stitching that joins two or more pieces of fabric. 

  • A joint formed by mating two separate sections of materials. 

  • An old English measure of glass, containing twenty-four weys of five pounds, or 120 pounds. 

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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