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• Tangle — Tan gle, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Tangled}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Tangling}.] [A frequentative fr. tang seaweed; hence, to twist like seaweed. See {Tang} seaweed, and cf. {Tangle}, n.] 1. To unite or knit together confusedly; to interweave or interlock,… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• tangle — [n] knot, confusion coil, complication, entanglement, jam, jungle, labyrinth, mass, mat, maze, mesh, mess, mix up, morass, muddle, rummage, skein, snag, snarl, twist, web; concepts 230,674,720 Ant. line, order, peace tangle [v] knot, complicate… …   New thesaurus

• tangle — [taŋ′gəl] vt. tangled, tangling [ME tanglen, prob. nasalized var. of taglen, to entangle, akin to Swed dial. taggla, to disarrange] 1. to hinder, obstruct, or confuse by or as by covering, circling, entwining, etc. 2. to catch in or as in a net… …   English World dictionary

• Tangle (mathematics) — In mathematics, an n tangle is a proper embedding of the disjoint union of n arcs into a 3 ball. The embedding must send the endpoints of the arcs to 2 n marked points on the ball s boundary. Two n tangles are considered equivalent if there is an …   Wikipedia

• tangle — tan|gle1 [ tæŋgl ] noun count 1. ) the messy shape that things make when they are twisted around each other or around something else: Her hair was in a hopeless tangle. a tangle of narrow streets 2. ) a situation that is difficult to deal with… …   Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

• tangle — I UK [ˈtæŋɡ(ə)l] / US noun [countable] Word forms tangle : singular tangle plural tangles 1) the untidy shape that things make when they are twisted round each other or round something else Her hair had got into a hopeless tangle. a tangle of… …   English dictionary

• tangle — tan|gle1 [ˈtæŋgəl] v [Date: 1300 1400; Origin: Probably from a Scandinavian language] 1.) [I and T] also tangle up to become twisted together, or make something become twisted together, in an untidy mass ▪ My hair tangles easily. ▪ His parachute… …   Dictionary of contemporary English

• tangle — 1 verb (I, T) to become twisted together or make something become twisted together in an untidy mass: My hair tangles easily. | tangle sth: Somebody s tangled all these cables under my computer. tangle with sb phrasal verb (T) informal to argue… …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English

• tangle — [ˈtæŋg(ə)l] noun [C] I the untidy shape that things make when they are twisted round each other or round something else II verb [I/T] tangle [ˈtæŋg(ə)l] if something tangles, or if you tangle it, its parts become twisted round each other or round …   Dictionary for writing and speaking English

• Make It Funky — For the Information Society song of the same name, see here. Make It Funky Single by James Brown A side Make I …   Wikipedia

• tangle — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. snarl, mix up, jumble, mattedness; complication, involvement. v. mat, snarl; knot, mix inextricably; snare, trap, enmesh; catch, perplex; embroil, complicate. See disorder, difficulty. II (Roget s IV) …   English dictionary for students