ravel : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: ravel	by the DICT Development Group
3 results for ravel
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Ravel n French composer and exponent of Impressionism (1875-1937) Synonym(s): Ravel, Maurice Ravel a row of unravelled stitches; "she got a run in her stocking" Synonym(s): run, ladder, ravel v disentangle; "can you unravel the mystery?" [syn: ravel, unravel, ravel out] Antonym(s): knot, ravel, tangle tangle or complicate; "a ravelled story" Synonym(s): ravel, tangle, knot Antonym(s): ravel, ravel out, unknot, unpick, unravel, unscramble, untangle
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Ravel \Rav"el\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Raveled}or {Ravelled}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Raveling} or {Ravelling}.] [. ravelen, D. rafelen, akin to LG. rebeln, rebbeln, reffeln.] 1. To separate or undo the texture of; to take apart; to untwist; to unweave or unknit; -- often followed by out; as, to ravel a twist; to ravel out a sticking.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Ravel \Rav"el\, v. i. 1. To become untwisted or unwoven; to be disentangled; to be relieved of intricacy. 2. To fall into perplexity and confusion. [Obs.] Till, by their own perplexities involved, They ravel more, still less resolved. --Milton. 3. To make investigation or search, as by picking out the threads of a woven pattern. [Obs.] The humor of raveling into all these mystical or entangled matters. --Sir W. Temple.