tangleとは

意味・読み方・使い方

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. (intransitive) to enter into an argument, conflict, dispute, or fight

   Don't tangle with someone three times your size.

   He tangled with the law.

3. (transitive) to mix together or intertwine
4. (transitive) to catch and hold; to ensnare.
   • 1671, John Milton, “Book the Second”, in Paradise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes, London: Printed by J. M[acock] for John Starkey […], OCLC 228732398:

     tangled in amorous nets

   • (Can we date this quote by Crashaw かつ provide title, author's full name, かつ other details?)

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

   • 2001, Christine A. Kelly, Tangled Up in Red, White, and Blue: New Social Movements in America, →ISBN:

     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.

   • 2004, Eve Ikuenobe-Otaigbe, Tangled, →ISBN, page 80:

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

   • 2014, Mercedes Lackey, ‎James Mallory, The House of the Four Winds, →ISBN:

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

同意語

• (to become mixed together または intertwined): dishevel, tousle
• (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

• betangle
• 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

派生語

• tanglefish (Syngnathus acus)
• tanglesome

語源 2

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

名詞

tangle (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 tangles)

2. 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.

3. (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.
4. (Scotland) Any long hanging thing, even a lanky person.

下位語

• kombu

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

• gelant, langet, netlag