What's the difference between ravel and tangle?

Ravel


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To separate or undo the texture of; to take apart; to untwist; to unweave or unknit; -- often followed by out; as, to ravel a twist; to ravel out a stocking.
  • (v. t.) To undo the intricacies of; to disentangle.
  • (v. t.) To pull apart, as the threads of a texture, and let them fall into a tangled mass; hence, to entangle; to make intricate; to involve.
  • (v. i.) To become untwisted or unwoven; to be disentangled; to be relieved of intricacy.
  • (v. i.) To fall into perplexity and confusion.
  • (v. i.) To make investigation or search, as by picking out the threads of a woven pattern.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Dominic Fifield Facebook Twitter Pinterest Ravel Morrison, who has been on loan at QPR, may be set for a return to Loftus Road.
  • (2) Maurice Ravel had been subject to psychiatric disorder for many years when signs of organic brain disease appeared at the age of 52.
  • (3) The team's response to the goal was to look for the pair with every attack but the closest they came was through Ravel Morrison's 20-yard free-kick in the 23rd minute, which would have crept under the crossbar had Karl Darlow not made a fine save.
  • (4) What makes Ravel's history interesting to the public as well as to physicians is not only the tragic toll exacted in this composer's personal and creative life but also the resultant loss of the output of one of the 20th century's towering musical geniuses.
  • (5) Having offloaded Jonjo Shelvey amid rumours that he was a disruptive, brooding influence, Swansea City have decided to enquire about bringing disruptive, brooding influence Ravel Morrison to the Liberty Stadium from Lazio.
  • (6) The last time I saw Ravel Morrison he was in the dock at Salford magistrates' court, fiddling with his tie and waiting to hear whether he was going to be locked up.
  • (7) FC Astana FC Shakhter Karagandy FC Aktobe Ravel Morrison moved to Lazio in 2015.
  • (8) West Ham's Matt Jarvis cut in from the left wing and slipped the ball to Ravel Morrison, whose strike was deflected into the net off the chest of Phil Jagielka.
  • (9) Ravel Morrison starts, though, which is good news for fans of football.
  • (10) But Big Sam's tactic of endless high crosses appears to have been rumbled and there's no sign of Plan B. Allardyce has to convince the board he can play more expansive football to fill the Olympic Stadium, settle his differences with Ravel Morrison and learn some PR skills.
  • (11) (Lax, S.R., Lauer, S.J., Browning, K. S., and Ravel, J.M.
  • (12) It consists of a basal knitted scrim with strongly entangled ultrafine polyester fibers, lined with a fine velour of entangled ultrafine fibers that provide high ravel and tear resistance, a perfect matrix for preclotting, and an anchor for cell adhesion.
  • (13) (Browning, K. S., Lax, S. R., Humphreys, J., Ravel, J. M., Jobling, S. A., and Gehrke, L. (1988) J. Biol.
  • (14) We showed previously that wheat germ extracts contain two forms of protein synthesis initiation factor 4F that have very similar functional properties (Browning, K. S., Lax, S. R., and Ravel, J. M. (1987) J. Biol.
  • (15) This observation is in agreement with our previous finding (Lax, S., Fritz, W., Browning, K., and Ravel, J.
  • (16) Ravel left no completed composition after an accident to the head in 1932.
  • (17) At 58, Ravel was struck with aphasia, which quelled any further artistic output.
  • (18) Previous work has shown that eukaryotic initiation factor (eIF)-4B from wheat germ is a complex containing two subunits, 80 and 28 kDa, and eIF-4F from wheat germ is a complex containing two subunits, 220 and 26 kDa (Lax, S., Fritz, W., Browning, K., and Ravel, J.
  • (19) Hmmm ... On the subject of Ravel Morrison , who has been linked with a move to Fulham, McDonald said "I would imagine Ravel will be staying until I'm told otherwise."
  • (20) They will remember the second half for many years and, if any gloss were required,, which is highly debatable, it was provided by Ravel Morrison, the mercurially gifted midfielder, who scored a goal that had the wow factor stamped all over it.

Tangle


Definition:

  • (n.) To unite or knit together confusedly; to interweave or interlock, as threads, so as to make it difficult to unravel the knot; to entangle; to ravel.
  • (n.) To involve; to insnare; to entrap; as, to be tangled in lies.
  • (v. i.) To be entangled or united confusedly; to get in a tangle.
  • (n.) Any large blackish seaweed, especially the Laminaria saccharina. See Kelp.
  • (v.) A knot of threads, or other thing, united confusedly, or so interwoven as not to be easily disengaged; a snarl; as, hair or yarn in tangles; a tangle of vines and briers. Used also figuratively.
  • (v.) An instrument consisting essentially of an iron bar to which are attached swabs, or bundles of frayed rope, or other similar substances, -- used to capture starfishes, sea urchins, and other similar creatures living at the bottom of the sea.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The fine structure of neurofibrillary tangles in the hippocampal gyrus, substantia nigra, pontine nuclei and locus coeruleus of the brain was postmortem studied in a case of progressive supranuclear palsy.
  • (2) It was the ease with which minor debt could slide into a tangle of hunger and despair.
  • (3) Although a trend was observed for TMA-DPH mobility to parallel histopathologic severity in hippocampal specimens, the biophysical changes did not appear to reflect a loss of neuronal membranes relative to glial membranes or the presence of senile plaques or neurofibrillary tangles.
  • (4) Neurofibrillary tangles (NFT), one of the pathological hallmarks of Alzheimer's disease are observed in very high densities in the brains of former professional boxers suffering from dementia pugilistica.
  • (5) Elevated brain Al concentrations, especially in cortical regions, were associated with behavioral changes and the development of neurofibrillary tangles (NFTs).
  • (6) The smoky density of the mackerel was nicely offset by the pointed black olive tapenade and the fresh, zingy flavours present in little tangles of tomato, shallot, red pepper and spring onion, a layer of pea shoots and red chard, and the generous dressing of grassy olive oil.
  • (7) Changes were more severe in white matter close to cortical areas with a great density of neurofibrillary tangles.
  • (8) There is a tangled web between Salazar, Nike, Farah and the Nike Oregon Project on one hand, and the British Athletics performance director, Neil Black, and head of endurance, Barry Fudge, on the other.
  • (9) Whereas cortical senile plaque count did not distinguish well between demented and nondemented subjects, every subject with numerous cortical neurofibrillary tangles was demented.
  • (10) Clinical symptoms of amnesia appear when amyloid induces neighbouring neuritic alterations: paired helical filaments and distant neuronal body lesions: neurofibrillary tangles.
  • (11) Staggerer cerebellar cortex exhibits the greatest fluorescence with most terminals appearing as matted tangles adjacent cell bodies.
  • (12) Tangle-free neurons in both diseased and control brains showed weak to absent intracytoplasmic immunoreactivity.
  • (13) But tangled up in its visions of thousands of new “starter homes” – 5,000 more of which were promised on Monday, when the government said it was going to directly commission housebuilding on five sites in the south of England – are an array of drastic measures aimed at what remains of England’s council homes.
  • (14) The capacity for protein synthesis in tangled cells appears, therefore, to be progressively decreased with accumulation of tangle, whereas that for oxidative metabolism is maintained and lysosomal activity, perhaps, increased.
  • (15) On electron microscopy the normal lamellar pattern made up of orientated collagen fibrils all about 80 nm diameter is replaced by a random tangled pattern of much thinner irregularly curved fibrils, some as thin as 5nm.
  • (16) Eight brains failed to reveal considerable numbers of neuritic plaques, neurofibrillary tangles, and neuropil threads, but these brains showed the presence of abnormal and intensely argyrophilic grains loosely scattered throughout the neuropil.
  • (17) N-Terminal and C-terminal domains of tau were found to be present in tangles in situ.
  • (18) The neuropathological lesions were assessed using a fluorescent stain for neuritic plaques and neurofibrillary tangles.
  • (19) However, increased knowledge concerning macromolecular abnormalities in amyloid containing plaques and neurofibrillary tangles makes the outlook for a diagnostic test for AD on CSF promising.
  • (20) The trial, originally expected to be staid, has exposed severe dysfunction within Bo's family and detailed the complicated tangle of allegiances and affairs that led to his downfall .