tangle
IPA: tˈæŋgʌɫ
noun
- 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.
verb
- (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.
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Examples of "tangle" in Sentences
- I undid the tangled strings.
- I unknotted the tangled strings.
- Slinkies have the tendency to tangle.
- The result of this history is a tangle.
- It's in the tangled mess behing the computer.
- The lead at the moment is a confusing tangle.
- Her parachute was found tangled in the fuselage.
- The periods separate the notation for each tangle.
- It is the turbulent airflow that tangles the fibers.
- But such lusty adventures are tangled up with didactic excesses.
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