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ravelled
adj 5
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4VERB + RAVELLED
divide, resemble
RAVELLED + NOUN
tubes
PREP.
from
ADV.
such
Definitions
adj
1
Entwined together; tangled.
[I]n them are minute glands, which resemble ravelled tubes […]
2
Unravelled; frayed.
3
Complicated; confused; involved.
What glory's due to him that could divide / Such ravelled interests?
4
Of a variable in the APL programming language: which has been reshaped into a vector.
LOAD.S loads a sequence of scalars from the ravelled form of a matrix into successive AM elements.
adj
1
Of bread: made from flour and bran.
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[I]n them are minute glands, which resemble ravelled tubes […]
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What glory's due to him that could divide / Such ravelled interests?
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LOAD.S loads a sequence of scalars from the ravelled form of a matrix into successive AM elements.
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