English-Thai Dictionary
tangle
N การ ทะเลาะเบาะแว้ง การโต้เถียง kan-ta-lor-bor-wang
tangle
N ความยุ่งเหยิง ความ พัลวัน ความ สับสน kwan-yung-yoeng
tangle
VI ยุ่งเหยิง พัวพัน สับสน involve confuse complicate yung-yoeng
tangle
VT ทำให้ ยุ่งเหยิง ทำให้ ยุ่ง ทำให้ พัน กัน ยุ่ง involve confuse complicate tam-hai-yung-yoeng
tangle up
PHRV พัน กัน ยุ่ง ทำ ให ยุ่งเหยิง ทำให้ พัน กัน pan-kan-yung
tangle with
PHRV คัดค้าน ต่อสู้ ต่อต้าน kad-kan
tangled
ADJ ซึ่ง พัน กัน ยุ่ง sueng-pan-kan-yung
tangled
ADJ ซึ่ง สับสน ซึ่ง ยุ่งเหยิง confused chaotic sueng-sab-son
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
TANGLE
v.t. 1. To implicate; to unite or knit together confusedly; to interweave or interlock, as threads, so as to make it difficult to ravel the knot.
2. To ensnare; to entrap; as, to be tangled in the folds of dire necessity.
Tangled in amorous nets.
3. To embroil; to embarrass.
When my simple weakness strays,
Tangled in forbidden ways.
[Entangle, the compound, is the more elegant word. ]
TANGLE
v.i.To be entangled or united confusedly.
TANGLE
n.A knot of threads or other things united confusedly, or so interwoven as not to be easily disengaged; as hair or yarn in tangled. 1. A kind of sea weed.
Webster's 1913 Dictionary
TANGLE
Tan "gle, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tangled; p. pr. & vb. n. Tangling.]Etym: [A frequentative fr. tang seaweed; hence, to twist like seaweed. See Tang seaweed, and cf. Tangle, n.]
1. To unite or knit together confusedly; to interweave or interlock, as threads, so as to make it difficult to unravel the knot; to entangle; to ravel.
2. To involve; to insnare; to entrap; as, to be tangled in lies. "Tangled in amorous nets." Milton. When my simple weakness strays, Tangled in forbidden ways. Crashaw.
TANGLE
TANGLE Tan "gle, v. i.
Defn: To be entangled or united confusedly; to get in a tangle.
TANGLE
TANGLE Tan "gle, n.
1. Etym: [Cf. Icel. þöngull. See Tang seaweed. ] (Bot. )
Defn: Any large blackish seaweed, especially the Laminaria saccharina. See Kelp. Coral and sea fan and tangle, the blooms and the palms of the ocean. C. Kingsley.
2. Etym: [From Tangle, v.]
Defn: A knot of threads, or other thing, united confusedly, or so interwoven as not to be easily disengaged; a snarl; as, hair or yarn in tangles; a tangle of vines and briers. Used also figuratively.
3. pl.
Defn: 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. Blue tangle. (Bot. )See Dangleberry. -- Tangle picker (Zoöl.), the turnstone. [Prov. Eng. ]
TANGLEFISH
TANGLEFISH Tan "gle *fish `, n. (Zoöl.)
Defn: The sea adder, or great pipefish of Europe.
New American Oxford Dictionary
tangle
tan gle 1 |ˈtaNGgəl ˈtæŋɡəl | ▶verb [ with obj. ] (usu. be tangled ) twist together into a confused mass: the broom somehow got tangled up in my long skirt. • [ no obj. ] (tangle with ) informal become involved in a conflict or fight with: I know there'll be trouble if I try to tangle with him. ▶noun a confused mass of something twisted together: a tangle of golden hair. • a confused or complicated state; a muddle. • informal a fight, argument, or disagreement. DERIVATIVES tan gly |-g (ə )lē |adjective ORIGIN Middle English (in the sense ‘entangle, catch in a tangle ’): probably of Scandinavian origin and related to Swedish dialect taggla ‘disarrange. ’
tangle
tan gle 2 |ˈtæŋɡəl ˈtaNGgəl | ▶noun any of a number of brown seaweeds, esp. oarweed. ORIGIN mid 16th cent.: probably from Norwegian tongul.
tangled
tan gled |ˈtaNGgəld ˈtæŋɡld | ▶adjective twisted together untidily; matted: his hair was a tangled mess. • complicated and confused; chaotic: a tangled tale. the tangled relationships between Ryan and Marissa, and Seth and Summer. PHRASES a tangled web a complex, difficult, and confusing situation or thing. [from ‘O what a tangled web we weave, When first we practise to deceive ’ (Scott's Marmion ).]
tanglefoot
tan gle foot |ˈtaNGgəlˌfo͝ot ˈtæŋɡəlˌfʊt | ▶noun 1 trademark material applied to a tree trunk as a grease band, esp. to prevent infestation by insects. 2 informal intoxicating liquor, esp. cheap whiskey.
Oxford Dictionary
tangle
tangle 1 |ˈtaŋg (ə )l | ▶verb 1 [ with obj. ] twist together into a confused mass: the broom somehow got tangled up in my long skirt. • make (something ) complicated or confused: a ploy to tangle matters even further. 2 [ no obj. ] (tangle with ) informal become involved in a conflict or fight with: they usually come a cropper when they tangle with the heavy mobs. ▶noun 1 a confused mass of something twisted together: a tangle of golden hair. • a confused or complicated state; a muddle. 2 informal a fight, argument, or disagreement. DERIVATIVES tangly adjective ( tanglier, tangliest ) ORIGIN Middle English (in the sense ‘entangle, catch in a tangle ’): probably of Scandinavian origin and related to Swedish dialect taggla ‘disarrange ’.
tangle
tangle 2 |ˈtaŋg (ə )l | ▶noun [ mass noun ] any of a number of brown seaweeds, especially oarweed. ORIGIN mid 16th cent.: probably from Norwegian tongul.
tangled
tan ¦gled |ˈtaŋgld | ▶adjective twisted together untidily; matted: his hair was a tangled mess. • complicated and confused; chaotic: a tangled tale. the tangled relationships between Ryan and Marissa, and Seth and Summer. PHRASES a tangled web a complex, difficult, and confusing situation or thing. [from ‘O what a tangled web we weave, When first we practise to deceive ’ (Scott's Marmion ).]
tanglefoot
tangle |foot |ˈtaŋg (ə )lfʊt | ▶noun [ mass noun ] N. Amer. material applied to a tree trunk as a grease band, especially to prevent infestation by insects.
American Oxford Thesaurus
tangle
tangle verb 1 the wool got tangled: entangle, snarl, catch, entwine, twist, ravel, knot, enmesh, coil, mat, jumble, muddle. 2 he tangled with his old rival: come into conflict, dispute, argue, quarrel, fight, wrangle, squabble, contend, cross swords, lock horns. ▶noun 1 a tangle of branches: snarl, mass, knot, mesh, mishmash. 2 the defense got into an awful tangle: muddle, jumble, mix-up, confusion, shambles.
tangled
tangled adjective 1 tangled hair: knotted, knotty, raveled, entangled, snarled (up ), twisted, matted, tangly, messy; tousled, unkempt; informal mussed up. 2 a tangled bureaucratic mess: confused, jumbled, mixed up, messy, chaotic, complicated, involved, complex, intricate, knotty, tortuous. ANTONYMS simple, straightforward.
Oxford Thesaurus
tangle
tangle verb 1 Miles found himself tangled in coils of rope | the wool got tangled up in a big knot: entangle, snarl, catch, entwine, intertwine, intertwist, twist, ravel, knot, enmesh, coil, mat, jumble, muddle. ANTONYMS untangle, disentangle, unravel. 2 he was suffering from minor injuries after tangling with his old rival: come into conflict, become involved, have a dispute, dispute, argue, quarrel, fight, row, wrangle, squabble, contend, cross swords, lock horns. ▶noun 1 a tangle of branches: snarl, mass, mat, cluster, knot, mesh, disorder, thatch, web. 2 the home team's defence got into an awful tangle: muddle, jumble, mix-up, confusion, entanglement, mishmash, shambles, scramble.
tangled
tangled adjective 1 her tangled hair: ravelled, entangled, snarled (up ), entwined, intertwisted, twisted, knotted, knotty, enmeshed, coiled, matted, tangly, messy, muddled; tousled, uncombed, unkempt, ratty; informal mussed up. 2 a tangled bureaucratic mess: confused, jumbled, mixed up, messy, chaotic, scrambled, complicated, involved, convoluted, complex, intricate, knotty, tortuous, devious, maze-like, labyrinthine; rare involute, involuted. ANTONYMS simple, straightforward.
Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary
tangle
tan gle /tǽŋɡ (ə )l /動詞 ～s /-z /; ～d /-d /; -gling 他動詞 1 «…に » …をもつれさせる, からませる (up ) «in » ; 〖be ～d 〗【網などに 】からまる, もつれる (up ) «in, with » ▸ The fox ('s feet ) got [became ] tangled up in the barbed wire .きつね (の足 )が有刺鉄線にからまった 2 〈事態 問題など 〉を紛糾させる, 混乱させる; 〈人など 〉を «…に » 巻き込む (up ) «in » ; 〖be ～d 〗〈事態 問題などが 〉紛糾する, 混乱する (up )▸ The issue became tangled up .その問題は紛糾した [こじれた ]3 〈鳥など 〉を (網などの )わなにかける .自動詞 1 〈髪などが 〉 «…に » もつれる, からまる «in » .2 ｟くだけて ｠【人と 】口論する, 争う «with » .名詞 C 1 (髪 糸 ケーブルなどの )もつれ, からまり ▸ a tangle of wires ワイヤーのからまり ▸ Brush the tangles out of your hair .髪のもつれをヘアブラシで直しなさい 2 〖通例a ～〗紛糾, 混乱, もつれ .3 ｟くだけて ｠ «…との » 口論, けんか «with » .in a t á ngle もつれて, からみ合って, 混乱して .
tangled
t á n gled 形容詞 1 〈髪 コードなどが 〉からまった, もつれた .2 〈状況などが 〉混乱した .
The Wordsmith Dictionary