tangle

Significado (Inglés)

Verb

1. (transitive) To mix together or intertwine.
2. (intransitive) To become mixed together or intertwined.
3. (figuratively, intransitive) To enter into an argument, conflict, dispute, or fight.
4. (transitive) To catch and hold.

Noun

1. A tangled twisted mass.
2. A complicated or confused state or condition.
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.

Noun

1. (countable, uncountable) Any large type of seaweed, especially a species of Laminaria.
2. (countable, in-plural, uncountable) 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.
3. (Scotland, countable, uncountable) Any long hanging thing, even a lanky person.

Conceptos

maraña

enredo

enredar

enmarañar

laberinto

lío

embrollo

enredarse

confusión

urdir

caos

enrevesar

embrollar

nudo

🪢

desbarajuste

desgreñar

enred

enredado

ovillo

revoltijo

Opuesto a

untangle, unsnarl

Sinónimos

snarl

chaos

muddle

knot

🪢

entanglement

entangle

confusion

mess

confuse

dishevel

tousle

mat

complication

ravel

embroil

involve

complicate

jumble

get twisted

tangle up

maze

thicket

disarrange

difficulties

become tangled

twist

get tangled up

agitate

trouble

sweep

clutter

sweep up

snare

drag in

drag

mix up

disrupt

muss

kink

complicated

obfuscate

disorder

complexify

disarray

commix

blend

derange

commingle

fox

🦊

conspiracy

Traducciones

verwikkeling

warnet

emaranhar

groviglio

aggrovigliare

warboel

Gewirr

Wirrwarr

enchevêtre

μπερδεύω

imbrogliare

Durcheinander

ingarbugliare

emmêler

Pronunciado como (IPA)

/ˈtæŋ.ɡl̩/

Etimología (Inglés)

Heredado de inglés medio: tanglen

Cognado con sueco: taggla

Cognado con nórdico antiguo: þǫngull

Cognado con noruego: tongul

Cognado con feroés: tongul

Cognado con islandés: þöngull

In summary

From Middle English tanglen, probably of North Germanic origin, compare Swedish taggla (“to disorder”), Old Norse þǫngull, þang (“tangle; seaweed”), see Etymology 2 below.