tangle

IPA: tˈæŋgʌɫ

A tangled twisted mass.
A complicated or confused state or condition.
An argument, conflict, dispute, or fight.
(mathematics) A region of the projection of a knot such that the knot crosses its perimeter exactly four times.
(medicine) A paired helical fragment of tau protein found in a nerve cell and associated with Alzheimer's disease.
A form of art which consists of sections filled with repetitive patterns.
Any large type of seaweed, especially a species of Laminaria.
(in the plural) 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.
(Scotland) Any long hanging thing, even a lanky person.

(transitive) To mix together or intertwine.
(intransitive) To become mixed together or intertwined.
(intransitive, figurative) To enter into an argument, conflict, dispute, or fight.
(transitive) To catch and hold.

Examples of "tangle" in Sentences

There in the midst of the tangle was a big black touring-car.
Of course I know what the tangle is in the world for, as well as anybody else.
Francois was surprised, too, when they shot out in a tangle from the disrupted nest and he divined the cause of the trouble.
I don't speak of myself alone, though of course I know one very sufficient reason why the tangle is in the world, if I chose to say.
The tangle was a highly successful type of tree, and some of them formed wells whose rims were fashioned from buried bones of past prey.
The best way to make sense of this legal tangle is to mouse over the title of an individual scandal, which will highlight everyone implicated.
Eighth, we should make sure that learning is available for a lifetime by transforming what can only be described as a tangle of federal training programs into a simple skill grant that goes directly to workers.
Adding to the tangle is a lawsuit filed last week in Delaware state court, in which a more-junior investor, Eastern Property Fund, is seeking to block the Paulson-Winthrop group from foreclosing, given that such an action would wipe out Eastern's investment.