Unleash vs Ravel - What's the difference?
unleash | ravel |
To free from a leash, or as from a leash
to let go; to release
To precipitate; to bring about
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(soccer) To strike; kick
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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.
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* 1980 , Gijsbert van der Linden, APL 80: International Conference on APL, June 24-26, 1980
As verbs the difference between unleash and ravel
is that unleash is to free from a leash, or as from a leash while ravel is to tangle; entangle; entwine confusedly, become snarled; thus to involve; perplex; confuse.As a noun ravel is
a snarl, complication.unleash
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Verb
(es)- He unleashed his dog in the park.
- He unleashed his fury.
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Antonyms
* leash * leash upravel
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Noun
(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!
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- 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