What's the difference between divulge and unravel?

Divulge


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To make public; to several or communicate to the public; to tell (a secret) so that it may become generally known; to disclose; -- said of that which had been confided as a secret, or had been before unknown; as, to divulge a secret.
  • (v. t.) To indicate publicly; to proclaim.
  • (v. t.) To impart; to communicate.
  • (v. i.) To become publicly known.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) People are not willing to use online booking forms, not willing to divulge their details.
  • (2) It may be that these two methods divulge different information regarding the electrophysiologic state of the myocardium.
  • (3) As a responsible company, we would not divulge details of individual cases."
  • (4) Independent security expert Graham Cluley told the Guardian suggested that a hacker could have worked for years to gather information leading to the images, or could have hacked an address book with celebrity emails and then used phishing techniques, where users are tricked into divulging their password by fake emails.
  • (5) Ratner also asks whether the California-based company did anything to challenge the warrants and whether it has received any further data demands it has yet to divulge.
  • (6) The middle ground is to divulge what the law requires.” Lynch’s Justice Department currently is fighting Apple in a federal court over the company has to weaken an iPhone’s security controls to make it easier for investigators to guess the passcode, which Apple doesn’t have.
  • (7) Yahoo filed a suit in the Fisa court on 9 September, joining Microsoft, Google and others in an attempt to force the court to allow them to divulge more information and preserve their reputations.
  • (8) He has not published detailed clinical reports, divulged the details of his methods, published meaningful statistics, conducted a controlled trial, nor provided independent investigators with specimens of his treatment materials for analysis.
  • (9) Just hours after her admission, two Australian radio DJs impersonating the Queen and Prince of Wales duped hospital staff into divulging intimate medical details.
  • (10) He is under intense pressure to divulge the name of one of his sources at the criminal leak trial of Jeffrey Sterling, a former CIA agent who is another of the Espionage Act eight.
  • (11) She didn’t divulge names or any possible actors, however.
  • (12) It is acknowledged that new legal procedures will be required to ensure that those who attend such hearings do not divulge details until they are reportable.
  • (13) However, Samsung has been obliged to divulge details of US shipments for a wide range of allegedly infringing phones and tablets.
  • (14) The program's confidentiality prevented him from divulging any identifying information, Dr. Fluharty replied.
  • (15) Perhaps the cause really is proving harder to establish than whatever the black boxes have so far divulged.
  • (16) Francis said that if the police confirmed he would not be investigated for divulging official secrets, he would then talk to Hogan-Howe or Creedon to see if they could offer assurances that the investigation would be completed properly.
  • (17) Research firm CreditSights said it expected a benign market reaction to the European tests, given the amount of information divulged by individual banks: "Controversy remains over the treatment of sovereign risks, but private sector loan losses look to have been adequately factored in.
  • (18) Sussex police does not divulge dealings with individual members of the public but said that it investigated all complaints against the force.
  • (19) Another claimed: “Isis is already here, we are in your PCs, in each military base.” Central Command said it viewed the hack as “purely an act of vandalism,” adding that no classified information divulged or operational networks had been affected.
  • (20) Evidence suggests nurses experience communication difficulties and frequently block patients from divulging their worries or concerns.

Unravel


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To disentangle; to disengage or separate the threads of; as, to unravel a stocking.
  • (v. t.) Hence, to clear from complication or difficulty; to unfold; to solve; as, to unravel a plot.
  • (v. t.) To separate the connected or united parts of; to throw into disorder; to confuse.
  • (v. i.) To become unraveled, in any sense.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) However, as the plan unravels, Professor Marcus's team turn on one another, with painfully (if painfully funny) results.
  • (2) Her black persona unravelled this week when Ruthanne and Larry Dolezal, a couple named on her Montana birth certificate as her biological parents, told Spokane’s KREM 2 News that her ancestry was German and Czech, with traces of Native American.
  • (3) Putting all this information together we can begin to unravel the problem of how the Listeria forms the cytoskeleton and what is the biological purpose of this tail.
  • (4) Thus, 14.7K appears to be a general inhibitor of TNF cytolysis, and as such should be an important tool in unraveling the mechanism of TNF cytolysis.
  • (5) This communication reviews the almost 40 years of studies by Jack Metcoff, MD, and coworkers to unravel the causes of fetal malnutrition and their efforts to prevent it.
  • (6) Because the housing crisis goes far beyond us Focus E15 mums | Jasmin Stone Read more Annette May, 68, from Lambeth Annette May has watched with mounting dismay as the community fabric of the council estate where she has lived for 44 years steadily unravels.
  • (7) Substantial progress has been made in unraveling the organization of the circadian system of Aplysia californica.
  • (8) The free ends of the microtubules appear unraveled; they are seen first as single elements, then as doublets, and finally are arranged into a cylinder.
  • (9) Unraveled filaments reconstituted from NF-L plus either NF-M or NF-H indicated that NF-M and NF-H are incorporated evenly into each protofibril.
  • (10) Athens was unravelling into chaos, unable to form a government and forced into fresh elections , plunging the markets into freefall as Europe's leaders abandoned any pretence that a Greek exit from the euro might not be imminent.
  • (11) The chancellor leaves the Treasury trying to hide the cost of his mistakes while his reputation for economic competence continues to unravel."
  • (12) With the eurozone unravelling and world markets in turmoil, threatening even the meagre recovery the UK economy had achieved since the onset of the credit crunch, he repeatedly evokes a mood of national emergency to explain why the coalition he forged with David Cameron is the right government for the times.
  • (13) Without a rescue, president Nicos Anastasiades said Cyprus would default and threaten to unravel investor confidence in the eurozone.
  • (14) This section was memorably captured by the computer and security expert Caspar Bowden , who wrote: "Interpreting that section requires the unravelling of a triple-nested inversion of meanings across six cross-referenced subsections, linked to a dozen other cross-linked definitions, which are all dependent on a highly ambiguous 'notwithstanding'."
  • (15) If the statistics aren't right the whole story, beautiful as it is, unravels," he said.
  • (16) But sometimes a smile is not enough.” As the latest proposed deal to avoid Greece’s bankruptcy threatens to unravel , a row is raging on Rhodes and several other Greek islands over fears that they are being unfairly targeted.
  • (17) George Osborne’s claim that the government secured a major corporation tax deal with Google appear to be unravelling after it emerged that a quarter of the £130m recovered by HM Revenue & Customs related to the US company’s share options scheme.
  • (18) I have lived in Greece my whole life and experienced the economic crisis as it unraveled the past years.
  • (19) As the field of human genetics successfully continues to unravel the secrets of an individual's genetic makeup, the social processes of stigmatization and ostracism of those with "undesirable" traits have the potential to increase.
  • (20) There's got to be a deal here between the taxpayer and the scheme member and that deal is going to unravel if the people in the public sector say they will not contemplate change."