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Ravel vs Raveler - What's the difference?

ravel | raveler |

As nouns the difference between ravel and raveler

is that ravel is a snarl, complication while raveler is one who, or that which, ravels.

As a verb ravel

is to tangle; entangle; entwine confusedly, become snarled; thus to involve; perplex; confuse.

ravel

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • a snarl, complication
  • :* {{quote-book
    • , year=1927 , year_published=2009 , edition=HTML , editor= , author=DH Lawrence , title=Mornings in Mexico , chapter= citation , genre= , publisher=Project Gutenberg Australia , isbn= , page= , passage=The savannah valley is shadeless, spotted only with the thorny ravel of mesquite bushes. }}

    Verb

  • To tangle; entangle; entwine confusedly, become snarled; thus to involve; perplex; confuse.
  • * Waller
    • What glory's due to him that could divide / Such ravelled interests?
  • * Jeremy Taylor
    • The faith of very many men seems a duty so weak and indifferent, is so often untwisted by violence, or ravelled and entangled in weak discourses!
  • :* {{quote-book
    • , year=1871 , year_published=2011 , edition=Digitized , editor= , author= , title=Popular Science News, Volumes 5-7 , chapter= citation , genre= , publisher= , isbn= , page=61 , passage=… and in them are minute glands , which resemble ravelled tubes … }}
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    • , date=2011-09-10 , year= , first= , last= , author=Martha T. Moore , authorlink= , title=After 9/11, dinner gang raises funds to honor those lost , site=USA Today citation , archiveorg= , accessdate=2012-08-24 , passage=But the real work of the First Thursday Foundation is remembering, and its biggest gift is knitting back together lives raveled by loss. }}
  • To undo the intricacies of; to disentangle or clarify.
  • To pull apart (especially cloth or a seam); unravel.
  • (computing, programming) In the APL language, to reshape (a variable) into a vector.
  • * 1975 , Tse-yun Feng, Parallel processing: proceedings of the Sagamore Computer Conference
    • LOAD.S loads a sequence of scalars from the ravelled form of a matrix into successive AM elements.
  • * 1980 , Gijsbert van der Linden, APL 80: International Conference on APL, June 24-26, 1980
    • Ravelling is necessary because the execute function in the IBM implementation only accepts charactervectors as argument.

    Usage notes

    * The spellings ravelling and ravelled are more common in the UK than in the US.

    References

    * Century Dictionary, Vol. VI, Page 4976, ravel * Century Dictionary Supplement, Vol. XII, Page 1114, ravel * Online Etymology, ravel

    Anagrams

    * * * English contranyms

    raveler

    English

    Alternative forms

    * raveller

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • One who, or that which, ravels.
  • * 1910 , Textile world record: Volume 38, Issue 4
    • There are no trimmers or ravelers on the machine.
    (Webster 1913)