tangle — قاموس الإنجليزية

فعل

1. To mix together or intertwine.

   الاستعمال

   • متعدٍ

   مرادفات

   entangleknotmatsnarl

2. To become mixed together or intertwined.

   الاستعمال

   • لازم

   مرادفات

   disheveltousle

   الأضداد

   untangleunsnarl

   أمثلة

   Her hair was tangled from a day in the wind.

   أمثلة إضافية (1)

   By the afternoon it seemed as if the storm had passed and that frost was setting in; but in the evening the wind rose to gale force, bringing telegraph poles down like skittles and tangling power and telephone lines.

3. To enter into an argument, conflict, dispute, or fight.

   الاستعمال

   • مجازي
   • لازم

   مرادفات

   argueconflictdisputefight

   أمثلة

   Don't tangle with someone three times your size.

   He tangled with the law.

   أمثلة إضافية (2)

   Compared to the last time they'd tangled with the U.S. Navy's carriers, the antiaircraft fire had been much, much more effective, even if the Wildcats hadn't done particularly well in their intercepts. They couldn't know it, of course, but the officer aboard Enterprise who'd recommended recarpeting the ship with 20-mm Oerlikons had, at least partially, been listened to, and the effect on the Japanese Navy's elite aircrews had been devastating.

   After a few attempts at counseling, they separated in January 2015. Since then, they have tangled in the courts.

4. To catch and hold.

   الاستعمال

   • متعدٍ

   مرادفات

   ensnareentrap

   أمثلة

   tangled in amorous nets

   When my simple weakness strays, / Tangled in forbidden ways.

   أمثلة إضافية (3)

   This is a book about the potential for the reclamation, reform, and enlightened transformation of the most expansive elements of the liberal tradition— that social and economic justice remain tangled in liberalism's web of pretentious institutions and betrayed promises is the reason for this battle from within.

   He spent the night at a friend's place unable to sleep and wondering how he got himself tangled in this mess.

   Why else would she have tangled him in spells of illusion to get him to keep her company?

اسم

1. A tangled twisted mass.

2. A complicated or confused state or condition.

   أمثلة

   I tried to sort through this tangle and got nowhere.

   أمثلة إضافية (1)

   Economics is a messy discipline: too fluid to be a science, too rigorous to be an art. Perhaps it is fitting that economists’ most-used metric, gross domestic product (GDP), is a tangle too. GDP measures the total value of output in an economic territory. Its apparent simplicity explains why it is scrutinised down to tenths of a percentage point every month.

3. An argument, conflict, dispute, or fight.

4. A region of the projection of a knot such that the knot crosses its perimeter exactly four times.

5. A paired helical fragment of tau protein found in a nerve cell and associated with Alzheimer's disease.

6. A form of art which consists of sections filled with repetitive patterns.

اسم

1. Any large type of seaweed, especially a species of Laminaria.

   الاستعمال

   • معدود
   • غير معدود

   أمثلة

   […] 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.

   You've never smelled the tangle o' the Isles.

2. 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.

   الاستعمال

   • معدود
   • in-plural
   • غير معدود

3. Any long hanging thing, even a lanky person.

   الاستعمال

   • Scotland
   • معدود
   • غير معدود

اسم

1. a twisted and tangled mass that is highly interwoven

   مصطلحات أعمّ

   natural object

   أمثلة

   they carved their way through the tangle of vines

2. something jumbled or confused

   مرادفات

   snarlmaze

   مصطلحات أعمّ

   perplexity

   أمثلة

   a tangle of government regulations

فعل

1. force into some kind of situation, condition, or course of action

   مرادفات

   embroilsweepsweep updragdrag in

   مصطلحات أعمّ

   involve

   أمثلة

   They were swept up by the events

   don't drag me into this business

2. tangle or complicate

   مرادفات

   ravelknot

   مصطلحات أعمّ

   intertwinetwineentwineenlaceinterlacelace

   أمثلة

   a ravelled story

3. disarrange or rumple; dishevel

   مرادفات

   tousledishevel

   مصطلحات أعمّ

   disarrange

   أمثلة

   The strong wind tousled my hair

4. twist together or entwine into a confusing mass

   مرادفات

   entanglematsnarl

   مصطلحات أعمّ

   twisttwinedistort

   أمثلة

   The child entangled the cord