Definition/Meaning of tangle

• English - Verb: tangle (third-person singular simple present tangles, present participle tangling, simple past and past participle tangled) (transitive) To mix together or intertwine . (intransitive) To become mixed together or intertwined . Her hair was tangled from a day in the wind. 1960 March, “The January blizzard in the North-East of Scotland”, in Trains Illustrated, page 137: By the afternoon it seemed…
• English - Noun: tangle (plural tangles) A tangled twisted mass. A complicated or confused state or condition. I tried to sort through this tangle and got nowhere. 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…
• English - External links: 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
• English - Anagrams: langet
• English - Etymology: Etymology 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. Etymology 2. Of North Germanic origin, such as Danish tang or Swedish tång , from Old Norse þongull, þang . See also Norwegian tongul , Faroese tongul, Icelandic þöngull .