Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In heraldry, same as
fretted .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective in a confused mass. Contrasted with
untangled . - adjective deeply involved especially in something problematic.
- adjective constrained by or as if by a convoluted rope or net; ensnared.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
entangle . - adjective
tangled ortwisted together - adjective
confused orcomplicated - adjective physics (of two
quantum states )correlated , even thoughphysically separated ; (referring to a state of a composite system) notseparable
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective twisted together in a tangled mass
- adjective deeply involved especially in something complicated
- adjective involved in difficulties
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Examples
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Or is that limited to cases where the Pauli Exclusion Principle applies (i.e. in entangled pairs)?
The Volokh Conspiracy » AZ Boycott and the Constitution: 2010
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Or is that limited to cases where the Pauli Exclusion Principle applies (i.e. in entangled pairs)?
The Volokh Conspiracy » AZ Boycott and the Constitution: 2010
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A lysogenic bacterium produces virions if it is derepressed, and here we are again entangled in the problem of induction.
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One day the cockatoo got his chain entangled, and Miss Kitty promptly advanced to put it right.
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Christians keep close to the word of God, and watch against those who seek to perplex and bewilder them, and that because, if men who have once escaped are again entangled, the latter end is worse with them than the beginning.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation) 1721
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"Let no man impose those things upon you, for God has not imposed them: if God has made you free, be not you again entangled in that yoke of bondage."
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation) 1721
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I have not been named in any of the cases pertaining to the 1984 riots, but my political opponents got my name entangled in them.
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I have not been named in any of the cases pertaining to the 1984 riots, but my political opponents got my name entangled in them.
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Even the technical term used to account for non-locality -- 'entangled' -- has a negative, uncomfortable connotation.
Philip Slater: Why What Frightens 'Skeptics' Frightened Einstein 2009
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With its quantum-system functions, our brain can receive information not only from our eyes and ears, but directly from the wider world with which we are "entangled" -- nonlocally connected.
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Ervin Laszlo 2010
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