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Tanımlar (İngilizce)

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

   “When paſſive Thouſands ſtretch beneath his Sword, / And freely die at his Imperial Word, / Thoſe wild, unhappy, ſelf-defending Few, / If not deſtroy'd in Time, will ravel all the Clew; […]”

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

   “[Magazine staffer about his political team:] Pencils at the ready, keen brains agleam behind intelligent horn rims, these experts spread out to ravel the loose ends of White-Housing, web-spinning spiders for [the presidential candidate].”

3. fiil 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.

   “[Y]ou ſhall haue one vvoman knit more in a hovver then any man can Rauell agen in ſeauen and tvventy yeare.”

4. fiil To confuse or perplex (someone or something).
5. fiil Often followed by out: to undo the intricacies of (a problem, etc.); to clarify, to disentangle.

   “Make you to rouell^([sic]) all this matter out / That I eſſentially am not in madneſſe, / But mad in craft, […]”

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

   “[S]helter, ſhelter, if you be ſeene / All's ravell'd out agen: ſtand there private, / And you'le find the very opportunity / To call you forth, and place you at the Table.”

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

   “[G]ive him a broad ſide my brave boyes with your Pikes, branch me his ſkin in Flovvers like a Sattin, and betvveene ever Flovver a mortall cut, your Royalty ſhall ravell, […]”

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

   “But the real work of the First Thursday Foundation is remembering, and its biggest gift is knitting back together lives raveled by loss.”

10. fiil To become entangled or snarled.

    “[A]s you vnwinde her loue from him; / Least it ſhould rauell, and be good to none, / You muſt prouide to bottome it on me: / Which muſt be done, by praiſing me as much / As you, in worth diſpraiſe, ſir Valentine.”

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

    “Mr. Urquhart was in sic a ravel after it that when he gies out the first line o' the hunder and nineteenth psalm for singing, says he, 'And so on to the end.'”

12. isim A confusing, intricate, or perplexing situation; a complication.
13. isim A thread which has unravelled from fabric, etc.; also, a situation of fabric, etc., coming apart; an unravelling.
14. özel isim A male given name.
15. özel isim A surname.