Dangle vs Regatte - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between dangle and regatte

is that dangle is an agent of one intelligence agency or group who pretends to be interested in defecting or turning to another intelligence agency or group while regatte is or regatte can be a cravat tied in such a way that two ends of material dangle from the knot.

As a verb dangle

is to hang loosely with the ability to swing.

dangle

English

Verb

(dangl)

to hang loosely with the ability to swing

* Hudibras

He'd rather on a gibbet dangle / Than miss his dear delight, to wrangle.

* Tennyson

From her lifted hand / Dangled a length of ribbon.

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(intransitive, slang, ice hockey, lacrosse) The action of performing a move or deke with the puck in order to get past a defender or goalie; perhaps because of the resemblance to dangling the puck on a string.

To hang or trail something loosely.

To trail or follow around.

* 1833 , Miller's Modern Acting Drama

To dangle at the elbow of a wench who can't make up her mind to accept the common title of wife, till she has been courted a certain number of weeks — so the old blinker, her father, says.

Noun

(wikipedia dangle) (en noun)

An agent of one intelligence agency or group who pretends to be interested in defecting or turning to another intelligence agency or group.

(slang, ice hockey, lacrosse) The action of dangling; a series of complex stick tricks and fakes in order to defeat the defender in style.

That was a sick dangle for a great goal!

A dangling ornament or decoration.

* 1941 , Flora Thompson, Over to Candleford

So her father wrote to Mrs. Herring, and one day she arrived and turned out to be a little, lean old lady with a dark brown mole on one leathery cheek and wearing a black bonnet decorated with jet dangles , like tiny fishing rods.

Anagrams

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regatte

English

Etymology 1

From the (etyl) regatte, the plural form of regatta.

Noun

(head)

* 2005 : Bronwen Wilson, The World in Venice: Print, the City, and Early Modern Identity , page 168] ([http://www.utppublishing.com/?pid=8186&step=4 University of Toronto Press)

Three days of festivities included regatte and war games.

Etymology 2

Noun

A cravat tied in such a way that two ends of material dangle from the knot.

* 1949 : CIBA Review , volume 6, issues 61–71, page 3,022 (CIBA Limited)

The earliest cravats were simple silk ribbons tied in a bow in front. There was a second kind, the so-called regatte , representing an ordinary knot from which two long ends of ribbon hung down. The most ingenious form was the plastron, a more or less studied and compact interlacement of silk ribbon which filled the whole opening of the coat.