Crossword clues for tangle
tangle
- Seaweed; confusion
- Ravel, last of wet fish
- Twisted mass
- Twist Nikolai Gogol originally employed in literary work
- Go at it
- Go head-to-head
- Hair knot
- Get involved
- Become twisted
- Mess (with)
- Knot in hair
- Hairbrush target
- Conditioner target
- Confused jumble
- Wires behind a TV, often
- Unruly set of wires
- Twisted mess
- Tough do to comb through
- Hair annoyance
- Fisher's woe
- Charging cord fiasco
- Become a twisted mess, as hair
- A comb may undo one
- Hair problem
- Snarly mess
- Hair snarl
- What a comb undoes
- Snarled mess
- Cords behind a computer, often
- Fishing line fiasco
- Wrestle
- Lock horns
- Something jumbled or confused
- Ensnare
- Ravel
- Mesh in a mess
- Mix-up
- Angler's headache
- Enmesh
- Confused state; seaweed
- Confused mass
- Confused interwoven mass
- Complication no good in story
- Come into conflict with viewpoint after a short time
- Knot tied originally on slant
- Story about no good muddle
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
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.]
To unite or knit together confusedly; to interweave or interlock, as threads, so as to make it difficult to unravel the knot; to entangle; to ravel.
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To involve; to insnare; to entrap; as, to be tangled in lies. ``Tangled in amorous nets.''
--Milton.When my simple weakness strays, Tangled in forbidden ways.
--Crashaw.
Tangle \Tan"gle\, v. i. To be entangled or united confusedly; to get in a tangle.
Tangle \Tan"gle\, n.
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[Cf. Icel. [thorn]["o]ngull. See Tang seaweed.] (Bot.) Any large blackish seaweed, especially the Laminaria saccharina. See Kelp.
Coral and sea fan and tangle, the blooms and the palms of the ocean.
--C. Kingsley. [From Tangle, v.] A knot of threads, or other thing, united confusedly, or so interwoven as not to be easily disengaged; a snarl; as, hair or yarn in tangles; a tangle of vines and briers. Used also figuratively.
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pl. 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.
Blue tangle. (Bot.)See Dangleberry.
Tangle picker (Zo["o]l.), the turnstone. [Prov. Eng.]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1610s, "a tangled condition, a snarl of threads," from tangle (v.).
mid-14c., nasalized variant of tagilen "to involve in a difficult situation, entangle," from a Scandinavian source (compare dialectal Swedish taggla "to disorder," Old Norse þongull "seaweed"), from Proto-Germanic *thangul- (cognates: Frisian tung, Dutch tang, German Tang "seaweed"); thus the original sense of the root evidently was "seaweed" as something that entangles (itself, or oars, or fishes, or nets). "The development of such a verb from a noun of limited use like tangle 1 is somewhat remarkable, and needs confirmation" [Century Dictionary]. In reference to material things, from c.1500. Meaning "to fight with" is American English, first recorded 1928. Related: Tangled; tangling. Tanglefoot (1859) was Western American English slang for "strong whiskey."
Wiktionary
Etymology 1 n. 1 A tangled twisted mass. 2 A complicated or confused state or condition. vb. 1 (context intransitive English) to become mixed together or intertwined 2 (context intransitive English) to be forced into some kind of situation 3 (context intransitive English) to enter into an argument, conflict, dispute, or fight 4 (context transitive English) to mix together or intertwine 5 (context transitive English) to catch and hold Etymology 2
n. 1 Any large type of seaweed, especially a species of ''Laminaria''. 2 (context in the plural English) An instrument consisting essentiallly 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 se
WordNet
v. force into some kind of situation, condition, or course of action; "They were swept up by the events"; "don't drag me into this business" [syn: embroil, sweep, sweep up, drag, drag in]
tangle or complicate; "a ravelled story" [syn: ravel, knot] [ant: unravel, unravel]
disarrange or rumple; dishevel; "The strong wind tousled my hair" [syn: tousle, dishevel]
twist together or entwine into a confusing mass; "The child entangled the cord" [syn: entangle, mat, snarl] [ant: disentangle, disentangle]
Wikipedia
Tangle may refer to:
- Tangle (TV series), an Australian television series
- tangle.com, a Christian social networking site
- Tangle (mathematics), a topological object
- Sea tangle, another name for kelp
- Neurofibrillary tangles, which occur in Alzheimer's disease
- Tangle (album), a 1989 album by Thinking Fellers Union Local 282
- Tangles (album), a 2005 album by S. J. Tucker
- Tangle, a character in The Golden Key by George MacDonald
- tangle, a form of art which consists of sections filled with repetitive patterns
Tangle is an Australian drama series for the Showcase subscription television channel. It focuses on the tangled lives of two generations of two families. Tangle is filmed in Melbourne and first screened on 1 October 2009. It is written by Fiona Seres, Tony McNamara and Judi McCrossin, and directed by Jessica Hobbs, Matthew Saville and Stuart McDonald. There have so far been three seasons.
Tangle is the second album by Thinking Fellers Union Local 282, released as an LP in 1989 through the band's own label, Thwart Productions.
The first series of Tangle, an Australian drama television series, began airing on 1 October 2009 on Showcase. Season one of Tangle explores the intertwined lives of two families, who sometimes connect and sometimes clash as they journey through life together. It concluded on 26 November 2009 after 10 episodes.
The season was released on DVD as a three disc set under the title of Tangle: Series 1 on 15 April 2010.
The second series of Tangle, an Australian drama television series, began airing on 20 July 2010 on Showcase. The season concluded on 24 August 2010 after 6 episodes.
The season was released on DVD as a two disc set under the title of Tangle: Series 2 on 18 November 2010.
The third series of Tangle, an Australian drama television series, was confirmed in December 2010, and production began in June 2011 and ended in August. Series three will contain six episodes, and is written by Fiona Seres and Tony McNamara, and directed by Emma Freeman and Michael James Rowland.
In mathematics, the word tangle usually refers to one of two related concepts:
- In John Conway's definition, 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 2n marked points on the ball's boundary.
- In link theory, a tangle is an embedding of n arcs and m circles into R × [0, 1] – the difference from the previous definition is that it includes circles as well as arcs, and partitions the boundary into two (isomorphic) pieces, which is algebraically more convenient – it allows one to add tangles by stacking them, for instance.
(A quite different use of 'tangle' appears in Graph minors X. Obstructions to tree-decomposition by N. Robertson and P. D. Seymour, J. Combinatorial Theory B 59 (1991) 153--190, who used it to describe separation in graphs. This usage has been extended to matroids.)
The balance of this article discusses Conway's sense of tangles; for the link theory sense, see that article.
Two n-tangles are considered equivalent if there is an ambient isotopy of one tangle to the other keeping the boundary of the 3-ball fixed. Tangle theory can be considered analogous to knot theory except instead of closed loops we use strings whose ends are nailed down. See also braid theory.
Usage examples of "tangle".
She was always so self-contained, so immaculate, so perfectly poised and turned out that his need to see her with her mouth swollen after love, her hair tangled by his fingers, her eyes languorous and heavy, her breathing quickened, sharp and desirous, was sometimes so great that he ached to reach out and take hold of her.
At the edge of the woods, the tall stems of goldenrod, low masses of blue ageratum, black-eyed Susans, and lavender asters, all tangled with binding vines of pink morning glory just closing its flowers.
The spoor was but a couple of days old when the two discovered it, which meant that the slow-moving caravan was but a few hours distant from them whose trained and agile muscles could carry their bodies swiftly through the branches above the tangled undergrowth which had impeded the progress of the laden carriers of the white men.
They heaved in a great, tangled mass, thrusting, licking, panting, writhing, biting, while a crowd gathered on the sidewalk beneath the building, gesturing upward toward the ludicrous alfresco scene.
His cutting out the tangle of abnormal vessels, the capsular angioma that he suspected, while leaving the rest of the anatomy intact, was so tricky the operation itself could further destroy neurons, making her worse off and possibly killing her.
The tangled branches of wild apricot trees ringed the pool, perfuming the air with the scent of ripe fruit.
The robber that accosted Brother Francis was not in any obvious way one of the malformed, but that he came from the Valley of the Misborn was made evident when two hooded figures arose from behind a tangle of brush on the slope that overlooked the trail and hooted mockingly at the monk from ambush, while aiming at him with drawn bows.
CHAPTER ONE BIG JOE, the tiger cat, poised for another playful spring at the tangle of cod line Asey Mayo was patiently unwinding in the woodshed of his Cape Cod home, abruptly changed his mind in mid - air.
The tangled lace of Flow drifted undisturbed, and no aureate Shells larger than those of rats shimmered in the shadows.
The broad aisles of baobab and shea trees tangled and vanished, leaving the safari hacking its way among close-set, scaly doum-palms.
Bracken fern, rank and tall, Chorizema and snake vine, Bauera with the always blooming pink flowerets, and Tetratheca, with the layer of tangled twigs, made the going difficult.
These men were absolutely naked and bedaubed with paint, their long hair was tangled, their mouths frothed in excitement, and their expression was wild, startled, and distrustful.
Jeremy, but you have managed to snarl, tangle, fray, chew, bedevil, or otherwise make unusable every spare piece of cordage on this ship.
Thrusting itself into the tangle, long woody bines of bittersweet hang their clusters of red berries, and above and over all the hoary clematis spreads its beard, whitening to meet the winter.
Ox blundered into a golem that clamped his ankles and tangled his feet.