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raveling 音標拼音: [r'ævəlɪŋ] [r'ævlɪŋ] n. 解開.拆開[的線] 解開.拆開[的線] raveling n 1: a bit of fiber that has become separated from woven fabric [ synonym: { raveling}, { ravelling}] Ravel \ Rav" el\ ( r[ a^] v"' l), v. t. [ imp. & p. p. { Raveled} (-' ld) or { Ravelled}; p. pr. & vb. n. { Raveling} or { Ravelling}.] [ OD. ravelen, D. rafelen, akin to LG. rebeln, rebbeln, reffeln.] 1. To separate or undo the texture of; to unravel; to take apart; to untwist; to unweave or unknit; -- often followed by out; as, to ravel a twist; to ravel out a stocking. [ 1913 Webster] Sleep, that knits up the raveled sleave of care. -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster] 2. To undo the intricacies of; to disentangle. [ 1913 Webster] 3. To pull apart, as the threads of a texture, and let them fall into a tangled mass; hence, to entangle; to make intricate; to involve. [ 1913 Webster] What glory' s due to him that could divide Such raveled interests? has the knot untied? -- Waller. [ 1913 Webster] The faith of very many men seems a duty so weak and indifferent, is so often untwisted by violence, or raveled and entangled in weak discourses! -- Jer. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster]
Raveling \ Rav" el* ing\ ( r[ a^] v"' l*[ i^] ng), n. [ Also ravelling.] 1. The act of untwisting or of disentangling. [ 1913 Webster] 2. That which is raveled out; esp., a thread detached from a texture. [ 1913 Webster]
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