Sanakirja
Tekoälykääntäjä
Synonyymit
Määritelmät
Verbit
- (intransitive) to become mixed together or intertwined
- (intransitive) to be forced into some kind of situation
- (intransitive) to enter into an argument, conflict, dispute, or fight
- (transitive) to mix together or intertwine
- (transitive) to catch and hold
Substantiivit
- A tangled twisted mass.
- Any large type of seaweed, especially a species of Laminaria.
- A complicated or confused state or condition.
- (in the plural) An instrument consisting essentiallly 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.
- An argument, conflict, dispute, or fight.
- (mathematics) A region of the projection of a knot such that the knot crosses its perimeter exactly four times.
Esimerkit
- Her hair was tangled from a day in the wind.
- Don't tangle with someone three times your size.
- He tangled with the law.
- Tangled in amorous nets.
- When my simple weakness strays, / Tangled in forbidden ways.
- I tried to sort through this tangle and got nowhere.
- 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.
- 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.
Taivutusmuodot
| Partisiipin perfekti | tangled |
| Imperfekti | tangled |
| Partisiipin preesens | tangling |
| Monikko | tangles |
| Yksikön kolmannen persoonan indikatiivin preesens | tangles |