(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."
Unscramble
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) We propose that unscrambling occurs by homologous recombination guided by pairs of direct repeats at MDS-IES junctions.
(2) I have yet to hear a coherent narrative of precisely how the eggs are to be unscrambled.
(3) There’s not much we can do to unscramble the egg.” The Linking Melbourne authority refused to comment on the case while Terry Mulder, Victoria’s transport minister, had not answered questions at the time of publication.
(4) They rule against the presence of an unscrambled copy of the actin I gene in the micronucleus, which means that unscrambling must be a part of macronuclear development.
(5) Now Google might be required to undo the changes – although Auke Haagsma, a lawyer advising the lobby group Icomp , which is critical of Google's policies, said that would be like trying to "unscramble the egg".
(6) Involvement was manipulated through (a) instructions given to Ss; (b) method of data identification used; and (c) E interaction with a confederate who posed as a S. Within each condition of involvement, Ss were assigned randomly to unscramble either four- or six-letter anagrams.
(7) "There has to be the unscrambling and the remaking [of the bill] because the health bill clearly doesn't conform to either the coalition agreement, or party policy," Hughes said.
(8) Only the scrambled version is present in the micronucleus, and only the unscrambled version is present in the macronucleus.
(9) We present and illustrate in detail a recombination model that explains how the actin I gene may be unscrambled during macronuclear development after cell mating.
(10) This non-recursive filter unscrambles saccade data which has been collected during the execution of an algorithm.
(11) Both the scrambling and the unscrambling reactions give similar h.p.l.c.
(12) Madeline Aufseeser, a credit card analyst with Aite Group, told Reuters that she did not think hackers could unscramble the pin numbers, but believes all customers with compromised accounts should replace their cards.
(13) That's why now there has to be the unscrambling and the remaking [of the bill] because the health bill clearly doesn't conform to either the coalition agreement, or party policy.
(14) While Alex Salmond and Alistair Darling are busy interpreting the writing on the wall and unscrambling the runes of the unfolding day, the leader of the Labour party in Scotland may be permitting herself a small gin or two and a quiet smile.
(15) No wonder British diplomats warned before the referendum that parliament would be snarled up for a decade with the great Brexit unscrambling.
(16) While there is a widespread view that the 2004 amalgamation has not enhanced the quality or effectiveness of support for the parliament, there is also recognition that the eggs cannot be unscrambled.
(17) Second, although there was in the interpositus nucleus a considerable topographical admixture of neurons with dominant forelimb or hindlimb inputs, the axonal projections of these neurons were apparently unscrambled on the way to the target RN neurons, so as to deliver the somatotopic specificities observed for two classes of RN neurons; those projecting down the spinal cord beyond L2 level, and those projecting to C2 but not L2.