tangleとは

語源 1

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

動詞

tangle (三人称単数 現在形 tangles, 現在分詞 tangling, 過去形および過去分詞形 tangled)

1. (intransitive) to become mixed together or intertwined

   Her hair was tangled from a day in the wind.

2. (Can we verify⁽⁺⁾ this sense?) (intransitive) to be forced into some kind of situation
3. (intransitive) to enter into an argument, conflict, dispute, or fight

   Don't tangle with someone three times your size.

   He tangled with the law.

4. (transitive) to mix together or intertwine
5. (transitive) to catch and hold
   • Milton

     tangled in amorous nets

   • Crashaw

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

同意語

• (to become mixed together または intertwined): dishevel, tousle
• (to be forced into some kind of situation): drag, drag in, embroil, sweep, sweep up
• (to enter into an argument, conflict, dispute, または fight): argue, conflict, dispute, fight
• (to mix together または intertwine): entangle, knot, mat, snarl
• (to catch かつ hold): entrap

反意語

• (to mix together または intertwine): untangle, unsnarl

派生語

• entangle

名詞

tangle (複数形 tangles)

1. A tangled twisted mass.
2. A complicated or confused state or condition.
   • 2013 August 3, “Boundary problems”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8847:

     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.

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

同意語

• (tangled twisted mass): knot, mess, snarl
• (complicated または confused state または condition): maze, snarl
• (argument, conflict, dispute, または fight): argument, conflict, dispute, fight

語源 2

Of Scandinavian origin; compare Norwegian tongul, Faroese tongul, Icelandic þöngull.

名詞

tangle (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 tangles)

1. Any large type of seaweed, especially a species of Laminaria.
   • 1849, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 10:

     Than if with thee the roaring wells / Should gulf him fathom-deep in brine; / And hands so often clasped in mine, / Should toss with tangle and with shells.

   • 1917, Kenneth Macleod (editor) "The Road to the Isles", in Songs of the Hebrides:

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

2. (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.

Further reading

• tangle in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• tangle in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
• tangle at OneLook Dictionary Search

アナグラム

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