Word Meanings - RAVELING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. The act of untwisting, or of disentangling. 2. That which is raveled out; esp., a thread detached from a texture.

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• RAVELIN
  A detached work with two embankments with make a salient angle. It is raised before the curtain on the counterscarp of the place. Formerly called demilune and half-moon.
• UNTWIST
  1. To separate and open, as twisted threads; to turn back, as that which is twisted; to untwine. If one of the twines of the twist do untwist, The twine that untwisteth, untwisteth the twist. Wallis. 2. To untie; to open; to disentangle. Milton.
• RAVEL
  1. To separate or undo the texture of; to take apart; to untwist; to unweave or unknit; -- often followed by out; as, to ravel a twist; to ravel out a sticking. Sleep, that knits up the raveled sleave of care. Shak. 2. To undo the intricacies of;
• WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
  Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
• RAVELER
  One who ravels.
• THREADFISH
  The cutlass fish. A carangoid fish having the anterior rays of the soft dorsal and anal fins prolonged in the form of long threads.
• DETACHED
  Separate; unconnected, or imperfectly connected; as, detached parcels. "Extensive and detached empire." Burke. Detached escapement. See Escapement.
• THREADER
  1. A device for assisting in threading a needle. 2. A tool or machine for forming a thread on a screw or in a nut.
• WHICH
  the root of hwa who + lic body; hence properly, of what sort or kind; akin to OS. hwilik which, OFries. hwelik, D. welk, G. welch, OHG. welih, hwelih, Icel. hvilikr, Dan. & Sw. hvilken, Goth. hwileiks, 1. Of what sort or kind; what; what a; who.
• THREADFIN
  Any one of several species of fishes belonging to Polynemus and allied genera. They have numerous long pectoral filaments.
• DISENTANGLE
  1. To free from entanglement; to release from a condition of being intricately and confusedly involved or interlaced; to reduce to orderly arrangement; to straighten out; as, to disentangle a skein of yarn. 2. To extricate from complication and
• DETACHMENT
  1. The act of detaching or separating, or the state of being detached. 2. That which is detached; especially, a body of troops or part of a fleet sent from the main body on special service. Troops . . . widely scattered in little detachments.
• THREADBARENESS
  The state of being threadbare.
• DETACH
  1. To part; to separate or disunite; to disengage; -- the opposite of attach; as, to detach the coats of a bulbous root from each other; to detach a man from a leader or from a party. 2. To separate for a special object or use; -- used especially
• THREAD-SHAPED
  Having the form of a thread; filiform.
• TEXTURE
  A tissue. See Tissue. (more info) 1. The act or art of weaving. Sir T. Browne. 2. That which woven; a woven fabric; a web. Milton. Others, apart far in the grassy dale, Or roughening waste, their humble texture weave. Thomson. 3. The disposition
• THREADY
  1. Like thread or filaments; slender; as, the thready roots of a shrub. 2. Containing, or consisting of, thread.
• RAVELING
  1. The act of untwisting, or of disentangling. 2. That which is raveled out; esp., a thread detached from a texture.
• THREADWORM
  Any long, slender nematode worm, especially the pinworm and filaria.
• THREADINESS
  Quality of being thready.
• TRAVEL
  1. To labor; to travail. Hooker. 2. To go or march on foot; to walk; as, to travel over the city, or through the streets. 3. To pass by riding, or in any manner, to a distant place, or to many places; to journey; as, a man travels for his health;
• GRAVEL
  A deposit of small calculous concretions in the kidneys and the urinary or gall bladder; also, the disease of which they are a symptom. Gravel powder, a coarse gunpowder; pebble powder. (more info) strand; of Celtic origin; cf. Armor.
• TRAVELER
  A traveling crane. See under Crane. (more info) 1. One who travels; one who has traveled much. 2. A commercial agent who travels for the purpose of receiving orders for merchants, making collections, etc.
• DOUBLETHREADED
  Having two screw threads instead of one; -- said of a screw in which the pitch is equal to twice the distance between the centers of adjacent threads. (more info) 1. Consisting of two threads twisted together; using two threads.
• THREAD
  wire, thread, OHG. drat, Icel. a thread, Sw. tråd, Dan. traad, and 1. A very small twist of flax, wool, cotton, silk, or other fibrous substance, drawn out to considerable length; a compound cord consisting of two or more single yarns doubled,
• PRETEXTURE
  A pretext.
• OUTTRAVEL
  To exceed in speed o Mad. D' Arblay.
• UNRAVELMENT
  The act of unraveling, or the state of being unraveled.
• GRAVELING; GRAVELLING
  1. The act of covering with gravel. 2. A layer or coating of gravel .
• GRAVELESS
  Without a grave; unburied.