tangles
noun
Meaning
- A tangled twisted mass.
- A complicated or confused state or condition.
- An argument, conflict, dispute, or fight.
- A region of the projection of a knot such that the knot crosses its perimeter exactly four times.
- A form of art which consists of sections filled with repetitive patterns.
- To become mixed together or intertwined
- To enter into an argument, conflict, dispute, or fight
- To mix together or intertwine
- To catch and hold; to ensnare.
- Any large type of seaweed, especially a species of Laminaria.
- (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.
- Any long hanging thing, even a lanky person.
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