tangle
Pronunciation: /ˈtæŋ.ɡəl/
The English word “tangle” has 13 meanings listed here.
verb
noun
- A tangled twisted mass.
- A complicated or confused state or condition.
- An argument, conflict, dispute, or fight.
- A region of the projection of a knot such that the knot crosses its perimeter exactly four times.
- 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.
- 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.
- Any long hanging thing, even a lanky person.
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.
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