to tangle a knot
1tangle — [n] knot, confusion coil, complication, entanglement, jam, jungle, labyrinth, mass, mat, maze, mesh, mess, mix up, morass, muddle, rummage, skein, snag, snarl, twist, web; concepts 230,674,720 Ant. line, order, peace tangle [v] knot, complicate… …
2Tangle — may refer to: * Tangle (TV series), an Australian television series *Tangle theory, a branch of knot theory invented by John Horton Conway *Neurofibrillary tangles, which occur in Alzheimer s disease * Tangled Up , the fourth studio album by… …
3Tangle — Tan gle, n. 1. [Cf. Icel. [thorn][ o]ngull. See {Tang} seaweed.] (Bot.) Any large blackish seaweed, especially the {Laminaria saccharina}. See {Kelp}. [1913 Webster] Coral and sea fan and tangle, the blooms and the palms of the ocean. C. Kingsley …
4Tangle picker — Tangle Tan gle, n. 1. [Cf. Icel. [thorn][ o]ngull. See {Tang} seaweed.] (Bot.) Any large blackish seaweed, especially the {Laminaria saccharina}. See {Kelp}. [1913 Webster] Coral and sea fan and tangle, the blooms and the palms of the ocean. C.… …
5knot — knot1 [nät] n. [ME knotte < OE cnotta, akin to Du knot, Swed knut, Ger knoten < IE * gn eu t < base * gen , to press together > KNOB, KNEAD] 1. a lump or knob in a thread, cord, etc., formed by passing one free end through a loop and… …
6knot — ► NOUN 1) a fastening made by looping a piece of string, rope, etc. on itself and tightening it. 2) a tangled mass in hair, wool, etc. 3) a protuberance in a stem, branch, or root. 4) a hard mass in wood at the intersection of a trunk with a… …
7knot — [n1] bow, loop bond, braid, bunch, coil, connection, contortion, entanglement, gnarl, helix, hitch, joint, kink, ligament, ligature, link, mat, nexus, perplexity, rosette, screw, snag, snarl, spiral, splice, tangle, tie, twirl, twist, vinculum,… …
8Tangle — Tan gle, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Tangled}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Tangling}.] [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,… …
9Tangle — Тангл  это соединённые между собой цепочкой несколько секторов, каждый из которых есть четверть тора. Соединение между секторами позволяет вращаться каждому сектору отдельно от остальных, вокруг своей оси. Классический Тангл состоит из 18… …
10tangle — [taŋ′gəl] vt. tangled, tangling [ME tanglen, prob. nasalized var. of taglen, to entangle, akin to Swed dial. taggla, to disarrange] 1. to hinder, obstruct, or confuse by or as by covering, circling, entwining, etc. 2. to catch in or as in a net… …