ravel

FREQ #42593

vt. 使纠缠, 使混乱, 拆开, 弄清 vi. 散开, 解除 n. 纠缠的一团, 散纱

发音

US /ˈɹævəl/
其它
UK /ˈɹævəl/
US /ˈɹævl̩/
UK /ˈɹævl̩/

词形变化

ravels 复数 raveled raveling ravell'd ravelled ravelling ravels 三单 ravels raveling 现在分词 ravelling 现在分词 raveled 过去式 raveled 过去分词 ravelled 过去式 ravelled 过去分词

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A tangled mess; an entanglement, a snarl, a tangle.

    苏格兰 文学
  2. 2.

    A confusing, intricate, or perplexing situation; a complication.

    苏格兰 比喻 文学
  3. 3.

    A thread which has unravelled from fabric, etc.; also, a situation of fabric, etc., coming apart; an unravelling.

    比喻
v.
  1. 1.

    To entwine or tangle (something) confusedly; to entangle.

    及物
  2. 2.

    Often followed by up: to form (something) out of discrete elements, like weaving fabric from threads; to knit.

    比喻 及物
  3. 3.

    To unwind (a reel of thread, a skein of yarn, etc.); to pull apart (cloth, a seam, etc.); to fray, to unpick, to unravel; also, to pull out (a string of yarn, a thread, etc.) from a piece of fabric, or a skein or reel.

    及物
  4. 4.

    To confuse or perplex (someone or something).

    比喻 及物
  5. 5.

    Often followed by out: to undo the intricacies of (a problem, etc.); to clarify, to disentangle.

    古体 比喻 及物
  6. 6.

    To destroy or ruin (something), like unravelling fabric.

    比喻 废旧 及物
  7. 7.

    In the APL programming language: to reshape (a variable) into a vector.

    及物 计算机 工程 数学
  8. 8.

    Often followed by out: of a reel of thread or skein of yarn; or a thread on a reel or a string of yarn in a skein, etc.: to become untwisted or unwound.

    不及物
  9. 9.

    Often followed by out: of clothing, fabric, etc.: to become unwoven; to fray, to unravel.

    比喻 不及物
  10. 10.

    To become entangled or snarled.

    古体 不及物 废旧

词汇关系

名词

同义词 2

run ladder

上位词 3

harm damage impairment
动词

同义词 4

knot unravel tangle ravel out

反义词 1

unravel

上位词 9

lace twine straighten out intertwine disentangle enlace entwine interlace unsnarl

相关短语

ravel bread ravel breads ravel out 解除, 解决

词源

The verb is borrowed from Dutch ravelen, rafelen (“to tangle, become entangled; to fray; to unweave”) [and other forms]; further etymology uncertain. It has been suggested that the verb is originally derived from the noun, but the Oxford English Dictionary regards this as “very uncertain”, and instead regards the noun as having derived from the verb (compare Dutch rafel, raffel (“frayed thread”)). Ravel is a contranym having both the senses of tangling (verb senses 1.1, 1.2, 1.4.1, and 2.3; noun sense 1) and untangling (verb senses 1.3, 1.4.2, 1.4.3, 2.1, and 2.2; noun sense 2). It would appear that the tangling senses predate the untangling ones (as in Dutch), but this is uncertain because the first published uses of both senses of the words occur around the same time.

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