ravelled

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 tense and past participle of ravel

Etymology 2

Origin unknown.[2]

Adjective

ravelled (not comparable)

1. Of bread: made from flour and bran.

Derived terms

• ravelled bread

References

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