Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A thread or fiber that has become separated from a woven material.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An obsolete form of ravelin.
- noun A raveled thread or fiber; a thread drawn out from a woven, knitted, or twisted fabric: as, to use ravelings for basting.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act of untwisting or of disentangling.
- noun That which is raveled out; esp., a thread detached from a texture.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb Present participle of
ravel .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a bit of fiber that has become separated from woven fabric
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Examples
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The asphalt pavement, state officials say, is "raveling" - the top layer of the asphalt is coming up.
WPTV Top Stories 2010
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The electio is over Obama won and now glen beck is the leading blood hound un raveling the story of Obama and Acorn and its subcitiaries all on the dole out of W#ashingtons money waste ..
First on the Ticker: RNC blasts Obama's stimulus in new video 2009
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What I have double gauze has sewn up really nicely, but I had to watch carefully for raveling edges.
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"This isn't real silver thread!" she snorted, raveling a strand from the end of a bolt.
Stalling 2010
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But it is crucial to the future of these super-smartphones, of tablets like the iPad and its coming competitors, and even of laptops that run on cellular networks when their owners are t raveling.
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Instead, it should be proof to you that the whole thing is raveling (which means the same as unraveling, in case you were curious).
Raveling 2006
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Instead, it should be proof to you that the whole thing is raveling (which means the same as unraveling, in case you were curious).
May 2006 2006
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In this story, a time-raveling detective named Mike is hired to prevent the disappearance of a young man named Jeremy Weiss.
REVIEW: Down These Dark Spaceways edited by Mike Resnick 2006
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The endearingly threadbare décor — raveling rugs, hand-detailed gold stencils climbing the high black walls — complements the effortlessly styled shop girls lounging on low leather couches, sampling regional whites from Greece.
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He calls it raveling. ... all the systems that kept all the processes in place and leveraged mature industries and ...
Raveling 2006
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