tangle
verb · nounA2Định nghĩa theo từ loại
Động từ
verb- 1.
(transitive)To mix together or intertwine.
Đồng nghĩa: entangle, knot, mat, snarl
- 2.
(intransitive)To become mixed together or intertwined.
Her hair was tangled from a day in the wind.
Đồng nghĩa: dishevel, tousle
- 3.
(figuratively, intransitive)(intransitive, figurative) To enter into an argument, conflict, dispute, or fight.
Don't tangle with someone three times your size.
He tangled with the law.
Đồng nghĩa: argue, conflict, dispute, fight
- 4.
(transitive)To catch and hold.
Đồng nghĩa: ensnare, entrap
Danh từ
noun- 1.
A tangled twisted mass.
- 2.
A complicated or confused state or condition.
I tried to sort through this tangle and got nowhere.
- 3.
An argument, conflict, dispute, or fight.
- 4.
(mathematics) A region of the projection of a knot such that the knot crosses its perimeter exactly four times.
- 5.
(medicine) 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.
- 7.
(countable, uncountable)Any large type of seaweed, especially a species of Laminaria.
- 8.
(countable, in plural, uncountable)(in the plural) 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.
- 9.
(Scotland, countable, uncountable)Any long hanging thing, even a lanky person.
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From Middle English tanglen, probably of origin, compare taggla, þǫngull, þang (tangle; seaweed), see Etymology 2 below.