Dictionary Definition
tangle
Noun
1 a twisted and tangled mass that is highly
interwoven; "they carved their way through the tangle of
vines"
Verb
1 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]
4 twist together or entwine into a confusing
mass; "The child entangled the cord" [syn: entangle, mat, snarl] [ant: disentangle, disentangle]
User Contributed Dictionary
Noun
- a tangled twisted mass
- a complicated or confused state or condition
- I tried to sort through this tangle and got nowhere.
- an argument, conflict, dispute, or fight
Synonyms
Translations
tangled twisted mass
complicated or confused state or condition
Verb
- to become mixed together or intertwined
- Her hair was tangled from a day in the wind.
- to be forced into some kind of situation
- to enter into an argument, conflict, dispute, or fight
- Don't tangle with someone three times your size.
- He tangled with the law.
- Don't tangle with someone three times your size.
- to mix together or intertwine
- to catch and hold
Synonyms
Antonyms
Translations
to become mixed together or intertwined
- Finnish: sotkeutua, sotkuuntua
- Swedish: bli tilltrasslad, trassla sig
to be forced into some kind of situation
to enter into an argument, conflict, dispute, or
fight
to mix together or intertwine
- Finnish: sotkea
- French: compliquer
- Portuguese: emaranhar
- Swedish: trassla till, göra trasslig
to catch and hold
- Swedish: snärja
- ttbc Dutch: verwarren, in de war brengen, compliceren
Extensive Definition
Tangle may refer to:
- Tangle theory, a branch of knot theory invented by John Horton Conway;
- Neurofibrillary tangles which occur in Alzheimer's disease.
- Entanglement's Tangle as the square of Entanglement's Concurrence between two states in quantum information theory
- Tangle toys, a line of toys composed of curved 90' pieces
- Tangled Up (2007) - The fourth studio album by British band Girls Aloud.
See also
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
Chinese puzzle, Gordian knot, Rube Goldberg
contraption, a outrance, absorb, allure, bag, bait the hook, ball up, bandy
with, battle, battle it
out, birdlime, bump
heads, burden, can of
worms, catch, catch out,
catch up, catch up in, coil, come up against, complex, complexity, complicate, complication, concern, confound, confuse, confusion, contend with, cope
with, cramp, cripple, cross swords with,
cumber, decoy, disagree with, dispute, draw in, embarrass, embrangle, embroil, encumber, engage, engage with, enmesh, ensnare, ensnarl, entangle, entanglement, entoil, entrammel, entrap, entwine, enweb, exchange shots, fetter, fight against, fight like
devils, fight with, foul,
foul up, gin, gnarl, go to loggerheads, grapple
with, hamper, hamstring, handicap, harpoon, have it out, hobble, hook, hook in, impede, implicate, interest, interlace, intertwine, intertwist, interweave, inveigle, involve, jam, jumble, jungle, kink, knot, labyrinth, lame, land, lasso, lime, lock horns, louse up,
lumber, lure, maze, meander, measure swords with,
medley, mesh, mess, mess up, mishmash, mix up, mix-up,
morass, muck, muck up, muddle, nail, net, noose, perplex, press down, puzzle, ramify, ravel, rope, sack, saddle with, scramble, screw up, settle it,
shackle, shuffle, skein, snafu, snag, snake pit, snare, snarl, snarl up, sniggle, spear, spread the toils, strive
with, struggle with, suck into, take, tangle up with, tangle with,
tangled skein, tilt with, toil, trammel, trap, trip, try conclusions with,
twist, web, webwork, weigh down, wheels
within wheels, wilderness, wind, wrestle
with