tangled adj

1 in a confused mass; "pushed back her tangled hair"; "the tangled ropes" [ant: untangled]

2 highly involved or intricate; "the Byzantine tax structure"; "convoluted legal language"; "convoluted reasoning"; "intricate needlework"; "an intricate labyrinth of refined phraseology"; "the plot was too involved"; "a knotty problem"; "got his way by labyrinthine maneuvering"; "Oh, what a tangled web we weave"- Sir Walter Scott; "tortuous legal procedures"; "tortuous negotiations lasting for months" [syn: Byzantine, convoluted, intricate, involved, knotty, labyrinthine, tortuous]

English

Verb

tangled

1. past of tangle

Translations

• Dutch: verward, in de war gebracht

Tangle may refer to:

• Tangle theory, a branch of knot theory invented by John Horton Conway;
• Neurofibrillary tangles which occur in Alzheimer's disease.
• Entanglement's Tangle as the square of Entanglement's Concurrence between two states in quantum information theory
• Tangle toys, a line of toys composed of curved 90' pieces
• Tangled Up (2007) - The fourth studio album by British band Girls Aloud.

See also

• Knot

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