Entangled vs. Tangle — What's the Difference?

To cause to become twisted together or caught in a snarl or entwining mass

To mix together or intertwine in a confused mass; snarl

To involve in a complicated situation or in circumstances from which it is difficult to disengage

To catch or ensnare in an intertwined or confused mass

(Physics) To cause (the quantum states of two or more objects) to become correlated in such a way that they remain correlated, even though the objects are separated spatially.

To involve in a complicated situation or in circumstances from which it is difficult to disengage

Simple past tense and past participle of entangle

To be or become entangled.

Tangled or twisted together

(Informal) To enter into argument, dispute, or conflict

Confused or complicated

A confused, intertwined mass

(physics) (of two quantum states) correlated, even though physically separated; (referring to a state of a composite system) not separable

A jumbled or confused state or condition

In a confused mass. Contrasted with untangled.

(Informal) An argument or altercation.

Deeply involved especially in something problematic; as, entangled in the conflict.

Any of several large edible seaweeds, especially a kelp.

Constrained by or as if by a convoluted rope or net; ensnared.

(transitive) To mix together or intertwine.

Deeply involved especially in something complicated;

(intransitive) To become mixed together or intertwined.

Twisted together in a tangled mass;

To enter into an argument, conflict, dispute, or fight.

Involved in difficulties

(transitive) To catch and hold.

A tangled twisted mass.

A complicated or confused state or condition.

An argument, conflict, dispute, or fight.

(mathematics) A region of the projection of a knot such that the knot crosses its perimeter exactly four times.

(medicine) A paired helical fragment of tau protein found in a nerve cell and associated with Alzheimer's disease.

A form of art which consists of sections filled with repetitive patterns.

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.

(Scotland) Any long hanging thing, even a lanky person.

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.

To involve; to insnare; to entrap; as, to be tangled in lies.

To be entangled or united confusedly; to get in a tangle.

Any large blackish seaweed, especially the Laminaria saccharina. See Kelp.

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.

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.

A twisted and tangled mass that is highly interwoven;

Something jumbled or confused;

Force into some kind of situation, condition, or course of action;

Tangle or complicate;

Disarrange or rumple; dishevel;

Twist together or entwine into a confusing mass;