Ravels vs Gravels - What's the difference?
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(ravel)
a snarl, complication
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To tangle; entangle; entwine confusedly, become snarled; thus to involve; perplex; confuse.
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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
* 1980 , Gijsbert van der Linden, APL 80: International Conference on APL, June 24-26, 1980
(gravel)
(uncountable) Small fragments of rock, used for laying on the beds of roads and railroads, and as ballast.
A type or grade of small rocks, differentiated by mineral type, size range, or other characteristics.
(uncountable, geology) A particle from 2 to 64 mm in diameter, following the Wentworth scale
(uncountable, archaic) Kidney stones; a deposit of small calculous concretions in the kidneys and the urinary or gall bladder; also, the disease of which they are a symptom.
To apply a layer of gravel to the surface of a road, etc.
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To puzzle or annoy
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, passage="The fracture is your making; the pin--" Here Miss Dolly interrupted; to tell the truth I was not sorry, for I was fairly graveled for the meaning of the pin.}}
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, passage='Oh, yes,' says Jan. Pond was graveled ; didn't know just what to do.}}
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, passage=It graveled me like sixty to pay such a price, but I had to do it because the season was just between hay and grass.}}
To run (as a ship) upon the gravel or beach; to run aground; to cause to stick fast in gravel or sand.
* Bible, Acts xxvii. 41 (Rhemish version)
* Camden
To check or stop; to embarrass; to perplex.
* Shakespeare
* Sir T. North
To hurt or lame (a horse) by gravel lodged between the shoe and foot.
(Webster 1913)
As verbs the difference between ravels and gravels
is that ravels is (ravel) while gravels is (gravel).ravels
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(en noun)citation, genre= , publisher=Project Gutenberg Australia , isbn= , page= , passage=The savannah valley is shadeless, spotted only with the thorny ravel of mesquite bushes. }}
Verb
- What glory's due to him that could divide / Such ravelled interests?
- 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!
citation, genre= , publisher= , isbn= , page=61 , passage=… and in them are minute glands , which resemble ravelled tubes … }}
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. }}
- LOAD.S loads a sequence of scalars from the ravelled form of a matrix into successive AM elements.
- 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
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* * * English contranymsgravels
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(wikipedia gravel)Noun
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* (small stones or pebbles) * (calculus deposit) stones, gallstonesSee also
* alluviumVerb
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- When we were fallen into a place between two seas, they gravelled the ship.
- Willam the Conqueror chanced as his arrival to be gravelled ; and one of his feet stuck so fast in the sand that he fell to the ground.
- When you were gravelled for lack of matter.
- The physician was so gravelled and amazed withal, that he had not a word more to say.