ravel

ravel
Synonyms and related words:
Chinese puzzle, Gordian knot, Rube Goldberg contraption, answer, ball up, bottom, can of worms, clarify, clear up, complex, complicate, confound, confuse, crack, debug, decipher, decode, disembroil, disentangle, disintricate, disinvolve, divine, do, dope, dope out, embrangle, entangle, explain, fathom, figure out, find out, find the answer, find the solution, foul up, get, get right, guess, guess right, have it, hit it, implicate, interpret, involve, jungle, knot, labyrinth, louse up, make out, maze, meander, mesh, mess, mess up, mix up, muck, muck up, muddle, open the lock, perplex, plumb, psych, psych out, puzzle out, ramify, ravel out, resolve, riddle, screw up, snafu, snake pit, snarl, snarl up, solve, sort out, tangle, tangled skein, unbraid, unclutter, uncoil, undo, unknot, unlock, unmix, unravel, unriddle, unscramble, unsnarl, untangle, unthread, untwine, untwist, unweave, unwind, webwork, wheels within wheels, wilderness, work, work out

Moby Thesaurus. . 1996.

Игры ⚽ Нужно решить контрольную?
Synonyms:
, , , , , , , / , , , , ,


Look at other dictionaries:

  • RAVEL (M.) — Avec Fauré et Debussy, dont il était le cadet, Ravel partage la gloire d’avoir «fait» la musique française du premier tiers du XXe siècle. Élève du premier, auquel il dédia son Quatuor à cordes , la mode et le snobisme des premières années du… …   Encyclopédie Universelle

  • Ravel — ist der Familienname des Komponisten Joseph Maurice Ravel eine Gemeinde in Frankreich, Ravel (Puy de Dôme) ein ehemaliger französischer Automobilhersteller aus Besançon (1923–1928), siehe Automobiles Ravel ein ehemaliger französischer… …   Deutsch Wikipedia

  • Ravel — Rav el (r[a^]v l), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Raveled} ( ld) or {Ravelled}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Raveling} or {Ravelling}.] [OD. ravelen, D. rafelen, akin to LG. rebeln, rebbeln, reffeln.] 1. To separate or undo the texture of; to unravel; to take apart;… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • Ravel — Rav el, v. i. 1. To become untwisted or unwoven; to be disentangled; to be relieved of intricacy. [1913 Webster] 2. To fall into perplexity and confusion. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] Till, by their own perplexities involved, They ravel more, still less …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • Ravel —   [ra vɛl], Joseph Maurice, französischer Komponist, * Ciboure (Département Pyrénées Atlantiques) 7. 3. 1875, ✝ Paris 28. 12. 1937; studierte am Pariser Conservatoire (u. a. bei G. Fauré), trat bald mit Kompositionen an die Öffentlichkeit. Er… …   Universal-Lexikon

  • ravel — (v.) 1580s, to untangle, unwind, also to become tangled or confused, from Du. ravelen to tangle, fray, unweave, from rafel frayed thread. The seemingly contradictory senses of this word (ravel and unravel are both synonyms and antonyms) are… …   Etymology dictionary

  • Ravel — (izg. ravȅl), Maurice (1875 1937) DEFINICIJA francuski skladatelj, napušta neoromantičarske tendencije, protivnik Wagnera; nadovezuje se na tradiciju francuske glazbe 17. i 18. st. (Rameau) s elementima suvremenih glazbenih tehnika i harmonije,… …   Hrvatski jezični portal

  • ravel — The verb has inflected forms ravelled, ravelling in BrE and usually raveled, raveling in AmE. The usual meaning is ‘to entangle or become entangled’, but ravel out has the opposite meaning, the same as disentangle or unravel …   Modern English usage

  • ravel — ► VERB (ravelled, ravelling; US raveled, raveling) 1) (ravel out) untangle. 2) confuse or complicate (a question or situation). ► NOUN ▪ a tangle or cluster …   English terms dictionary

  • ravel — index ascertain, disorganize, elucidate, snarl Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …   Law dictionary

  • Ravel — Ravel, Maurice …   Enciclopedia Universal

Share the article and excerpts

Direct link
… Do a right-click on the link above
and select “Copy Link”