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intertwine
English
Etymology
inter- +? twine
Verb
intertwine (third-person singular simple present intertwines, present participle intertwining, simple past and past participle intertwined)
- (transitive) To twine something together.
- 2005, Plato, Sophist. Translation by Lesley Brown. 240c.
- You see, no doubt, that yet again, thanks to this intertwining, our many-headed sophist has forced us against our will to admit that what is not is in a way.
- 2005, Plato, Sophist. Translation by Lesley Brown. 240c.
- (intransitive) To become twined together.
Synonyms
- (twine around each other): entwine
Translations
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ravel
English
Etymology
From Dutch ravelen (“to tangle, fray out, unweave”), from Dutch rafel (“frayed thread”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??æv?l/
- Rhymes: -æv?l
Noun
ravel (plural ravels)
- A snarl; a complication.
- A ravelled thread.
Verb
ravel (third-person singular simple present ravels, present participle ravelling or (US) raveling, simple past and past participle ravelled or (US) raveled)
- (transitive) To tangle; entangle; entwine confusedly, become snarled; thus to involve; perplex; confuse.
- 1660, Edmund Waller, To the King, upon his Majesty's Happy Return
- What glory's due to him that could divide / Such ravelled interests?
- 1653, Jeremy Taylor, Twenty-five Sermons preached at Golden Grove; being for the Winter Half-year
- 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!
- 1660, Edmund Waller, To the King, upon his Majesty's Happy Return
- (transitive, figuratively) To undo the intricacies of; to disentangle or clarify.
- (transitive) To pull apart (especially cloth or a seam); unravel.
- (intransitive) To become entangled.
- (intransitive) To become untwisted or unwoven.
- (computing, programming) In the APL programming 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.
- 1975, Tse-yun Feng, Parallel processing: proceedings of the Sagamore Computer Conference
Usage notes
- The spellings ravelling and ravelled are more common in the UK than in the US.
Translations
References
- Century Dictionary, Vol. VI, Page 4976, ravel
- Century Dictionary Supplement, Vol. XII, Page 1114, ravel
- The New Century Dictionary 1952, Volume Two, page 1476, Ravel
- Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “ravel”, in Online Etymology Dictionary
- ravel at OneLook Dictionary Search
Anagrams
- arvel, larve, laver, reval, velar
Westrobothnian
Noun
ravel n
- Talk.
Related terms
- raväl
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