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Unrolled

Podcast 1 · Introduction

Unrolled /ʌnˈrəʊld/ · verb (past) / adjective

A short documentary narration — meaning, origin, and how the word is used.

In this course, unrolled means opened out from a rolled state, as a. The introduction ties that sense to unroll. See the Cambridge English entry and the Merriam-Webster entry. Encyclopedic background is in Unrolled.

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Podcast 2 · Daily Use

In Conversation

Two British speakers using "unrolled" naturally in everyday talk.

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Podcast 3 · Prompt Engineering

Prompting with "unrolled"

An instructor and developer explore real, copy-ready AI prompts built around the word.

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Transcript: “Unrolled” vocabulary micro-course

Read along with the three podcasts, or open the full dictionary entry for Unrolled for the definition, Arabic meaning, synonyms and example sentences.

Podcast 1 — Introduction & meaning

Narrator: Today's word is unrolled. It's the past tense of unroll, and also an adjective for something already spread out flat.

Narrator: You say it un-ROHLD, with the stress on rohld. In phonetic notation, that's /ʌnˈrəʊld/.

Narrator: Unrolled means opened out from a rolled state, as a verb, she unrolled the map, and as an adjective, the unrolled carpet lay flat.

Narrator: It's unroll plus the ending, dash e-d, and note the spelling, a double l, unrolled, like rolled itself.

Narrator: Like its parent verb, it can be literal, the unrolled scroll, or figurative, the plan unrolled slowly over the year.

Narrator: In tech, take care, rolled out means launched gradually, but unrolled keeps its plain sense of physically spread open.

Narrator: In tone, unrolled is plain and descriptive. So remember: unrolled is unroll completed, spread flat, no longer coiled.

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Podcast 2 — In conversation

Speaker A: She unrolled the old map and we pored over it for ages.

Speaker B: Lovely. Unrolled is the past tense there, the action finished.

Speaker A: Exactly. The unrolled rug finally lay flat against the floor.

Speaker B: Right, the adjective sense there. One thing, mind the spelling, double l, unrolled.

Speaker A: Good point. Just like rolled, it keeps the double l.

Speaker B: Exactly. A close word is unfurled, though that suits flags and sails.

Speaker A: True. Its opposite is rolled up, coiled again.

Speaker B: Yes. So they unrolled the banner across the stage.

Speaker A: Right. The unrolled poster covered the whole wall.

Speaker B: Lovely. One word, unroll, completed and flat.

Podcast 3 — Prompt engineering

Speaker B: Today we'll use the word unrolled to write AI prompts about completed reveals, expanded states, and finished animations.

Speaker B: Picture an expanded panel. Here's a clean prompt.

Prompt: In this React accordion, give each fully unrolled section a clear open style, more padding and a soft shadow, so an unrolled panel looks distinctly open from a closed one.

Speaker B: It works because unrolled marks the completed, fully open state to style.

Speaker A: Nice. Could unrolled guide saved state too?

Speaker B: Absolutely. Try this.

Prompt: Remember which sections the user left unrolled, so when they return, those unrolled panels stay open and they pick up exactly where they were.

Speaker B: Here unrolled describes the open sections whose state we persist.

Speaker A: Clear. What about a database?

Speaker B: Use the state sense.

Prompt: Add a boolean field named is_unrolled to each panel record, indexed for quick reads, so the app loads every unrolled section open and the rest closed instantly.

Speaker B: Saying unrolled gives the AI a clear true-false state to store.

Speaker A: Love that. Can we build a small app?

Speaker B: Minimal but precise.

Prompt: Create a simple FAQ app where answers start closed, and once unrolled stay unrolled until tapped again, so users keep their chosen answers open while they read.

Speaker B: One word, unrolled, frames the whole FAQ app, so the prompt stays memorable.

Speaker A: And for an animation end?

Speaker B: Same completed idea.

Prompt: When a panel finishes opening, mark it fully unrolled and fade its content in, so the unrolled panel settles smoothly with no flicker at the end.

Speaker B: The word unrolled pins the moment the open animation completes.

Speaker A: Brilliant. One last quick prompt for a layout?

Speaker B: Here you go.

Prompt: Reflow the page when a section is unrolled so nothing below jumps, keeping the layout calm whether a panel is rolled or unrolled.

Speaker B: So the rule is simple: use unrolled for the completed, fully open state of a reveal.

Speaker A: Got it. Unrolled equals unroll, completed and flat. Easy to recall and easy to type.