ravelled

English

Etymology 1

From ravel +‎ -ed.[1]

Adjective

ravelled (comparative more ravelled, superlative most ravelled)

  1. Entwined together; tangled.
    • 1871, Popular Science News, page 61:
      [I]n them are minute glands, which resemble ravelled tubes […]
  2. Unravelled; frayed.
  3. (figuratively) Complicated; confused; involved.
    • 1660, Edmund Waller, To the King, upon his Majesty's Happy Return:
      What glory's due to him that could divide / Such ravelled interests?
  4. (programming) Of a variable in the APL programming language: which has been reshaped into a vector.
    • 1975, Tse-yun Feng, Parallel processing: proceedings of the Sagamore Computer Conference:
      LOAD.S loads a sequence of scalars from the ravelled form of a matrix into successive AM elements.

Verb

ravelled

  1. simple past and past participle of ravel

Etymology 2

Origin unknown.[2]

Adjective

ravelled (not comparable)

  1. Of bread: made from flour and bran.
Derived terms

References
  1. “ravelled | raveled, adj.2”, in OED Online Paid subscription required⁠, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, December 2020.
  2. “ravelled | raveled, adj.1”, in OED Online Paid subscription required⁠, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, December 2020.
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