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Tangle
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- 1 A barangay of Mexico, Pampanga, Philippines.
- 1 A tangled twisted mass.
- 2 Any large type of seaweed, especially a species of Laminaria. countable, uncountable
"[…] if with thee the roaring wells Should gulf him fathom-deep in brine; And hands so often clasp’d in mine, Should toss with tangle and with shells."
- 3 something jumbled or confused wordnet
- 4 A complicated or confused state or condition.
"I tried to sort through this tangle and got nowhere."
- 5 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. countable, in-plural, uncountable
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- 6 a twisted and tangled mass that is highly interwoven wordnet
- 7 An argument, conflict, dispute, or fight.
- 8 Any long hanging thing, even a lanky person. Scotland, countable, uncountable
- 9 A region of the projection of a knot such that the knot crosses its perimeter exactly four times.
- 10 A paired helical fragment of tau protein found in a nerve cell and associated with Alzheimer's disease.
- 11 A form of art which consists of sections filled with repetitive patterns.
- 1 To mix together or intertwine. transitive
- 2 twist together or entwine into a confusing mass wordnet
- 3 To become mixed together or intertwined. intransitive
"Her hair was tangled from a day in the wind."
- 4 disarrange or rumple; dishevel wordnet
- 5 To enter into an argument, conflict, dispute, or fight. figuratively, intransitive
"Don't tangle with someone three times your size."
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- 6 tangle or complicate wordnet
- 7 To catch and hold. transitive
"tangled in amorous nets"
- 8 force into some kind of situation, condition, or course of action wordnet
Etymology
From Middle English tanglen, probably of North Germanic origin, compare Swedish taggla (“to disorder”), Old Norse þǫngull, þang (“tangle; seaweed”), see Etymology 2 below.
From Middle English tanglen, probably of North Germanic origin, compare Swedish taggla (“to disorder”), Old Norse þǫngull, þang (“tangle; seaweed”), see Etymology 2 below.
Of North Germanic origin, such as Danish tang or Swedish tång, from Old Norse þongull, þang. See also Norwegian tongul, Faroese tongul, Icelandic þöngull.
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