Ravelling

noun, verb

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    gerund of ravel; A tangled mess; a decomposition.

    "Afore we got to the shanty Colonel Applegate stuck his head out of the door. His temper had been getting raggeder all the time, and the sousing he got when he fell overboard had just about ripped what was left of it to ravellings."

  2. 2
    a bit of fiber that has become separated from woven fabric wordnet
  3. 3
    gerund of ravel; In the APL programming language: the act of reshaping a variable into a vector.

    "Ravelling is necessary because the execute function in the IBM implementation only accepts charactervectors as argument."

Verb
  1. 1
    present participle and gerund of ravel form-of, gerund, participle, present

Synonyms

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ravelingraveling

Example

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"Afore we got to the shanty Colonel Applegate stuck his head out of the door. His temper had been getting raggeder all the time, and the sousing he got when he fell overboard had just about ripped what was left of it to ravellings."

Etymology

From ravel + -ing.

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