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Raven vs Ravel - What's the difference?

raven | ravel |

As nouns the difference between raven and ravel

is that raven is a common name for several, generally large and lustrous black species of birds in the genus Corvus, especially the common raven, Corvus corax while ravel is a snarl, complication.

As verbs the difference between raven and ravel

is that raven is to obtain or seize by violence while ravel is to tangle; entangle; entwine confusedly, become snarled; thus to involve; perplex; confuse.

As an adjective raven

is of the color of the raven; jet-black.

As a proper noun Raven

is {{given name|female|from=English}} for a girl with raven hair, used since the 1970s.

raven

English

Etymology 1

(wikipedia raven) (Corvus corax) From (etyl) ).

Noun

(en noun)
  • A common name for several, generally large and lustrous black species of birds in the genus Corvus'', especially the common raven, ''Corvus corax .
    • Derived terms
    * (Australian raven) () * (brown-necked raven) () * (Chatham raven) () * (Chihuahuan raven) () * common raven (Corvus corax ) * (dwarf raven) () * (fan-tailed raven) () * (forest raven) () * (little raven) () * (New Zealand raven) () * northern raven (Corvus corax ) * (pied raven) * (relict raven) () * (Somali raven) () * (Tasmanian raven) () * (thick-billed raven) () * (western raven) () * (white-necked raven) ()

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Of the color of the raven; jet-black
    • raven curls
    raven darkness
    She was a tall, sophisticated, raven-haired beauty.
    Derived terms
    * nonraven * raven-black * raven-haired * ravenhood * raven standard

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) .

    Alternative forms

    * ravin, ravine

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Rapine; rapacity.
  • Prey; plunder; food obtained by violence.

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • (archaic) To obtain or seize by violence.
  • To devour with great eagerness.
  • To prey with rapacity; to be greedy; to show rapacity.
    • The raven is both a scavenger, who ravens''' a dead animal almost like a vulture, and a bird of prey, who commonly '''ravens to catch a rodent.
    Related terms
    * ravener * ravening * ravenous, ravenously, ravenousness

    References

    * * [http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?search=raven&searchmode=none]

    Anagrams

    * English adjectives ending in -en English heteronyms ----

    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 … }}
  • :* {{quote-web
    • , 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