ravel

Significado (Inglês)

1. To entwine or tangle (something) confusedly; to entangle.
2. Often followed by up: to form (something) out of discrete elements, like weaving fabric from threads; to knit.
3. To unwind (a reel of thread, a skein of yarn, etc.); to pull apart (cloth, a seam, etc.); to fray, to unpick, to unravel; also, to pull out (a string of yarn, a thread, etc.) from a piece of fabric, or a skein or reel.
4. To confuse or perplex (someone or something).
5. Often followed by out: to undo the intricacies of (a problem, etc.); to clarify, to disentangle.
6. (obsolete) To destroy or ruin (something), like unravelling fabric.
7. In the APL programming language: to reshape (a variable) into a vector.
8. Often followed by out: of a reel of thread or skein of yarn; or a thread on a reel or a string of yarn in a skein, etc.: to become untwisted or unwound.
9. Often followed by out: of clothing, fabric, etc.: to become unwoven; to fray, to unravel.
10. To become entangled or snarled.

unravel

tangle

ravel out

mix in

become tangled

Freqüência

Hifenizado como

rav‧el

Pronunciado como (IPA)

/ˈɹævl̩/

The verb is borrowed from Dutch ravelen, rafelen (“to tangle, become entangled; to fray; to unweave”) [and other forms]; further etymology uncertain. It has been suggested that the verb is originally derived from the noun, but the Oxford English Dictionary regards this as “very uncertain”, and instead regards the noun as having derived from the verb (compare Dutch rafel, raffel (“frayed thread”)). Ravel is a contranym having both the senses of tangling (verb senses 1.1, 1.2, 1.4.1, and 2.3; noun sense 1) and untangling (verb senses 1.3, 1.4.2, 1.4.3, 2.1, and 2.2; noun sense 2). It would appear that the tangling senses predate the untangling ones (as in Dutch), but this is uncertain because the first published uses of both senses of the words occur around the same time.