Defeat vs Tangled - What's the difference?
defeat | tangled |
To overcome in battle or contest.
To reduce, to nothing, the strength of.
* Tillotson
* A. W. Ward
To nullify
* Hallam
The act of defeating or being defeated.
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(tangle)
to become mixed together or intertwined
to be forced into some kind of situation
to enter into an argument, conflict, dispute, or fight
to mix together or intertwine
to catch and hold
* Milton
* Crashaw
A tangled twisted mass.
A complicated or confused state or condition.
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(mathematics) A region of the projection of a knot such that the knot crosses its perimeter exactly four times.
Any large type of seaweed, especially a species of Laminaria .
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(in the plural) An instrument consisting essentiallly 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.
As verbs the difference between defeat and tangled
is that defeat is to overcome in battle or contest while tangled is (tangle).As a noun defeat
is the act of defeating or being defeated.defeat
English
Verb
(en verb)- Wellington defeated Napoleon at Waterloo.
- He finds himself naturally to dread a superior Being that can defeat all his designs, and disappoint all his hopes.
- In one instance he defeated his own purpose.
- The escheators defeated the right heir of his succession.
Synonyms
(To overcome in contest) * beat * conquer * overthrow * rout * vanquishNoun
(en noun)citation, page= , passage=Two defeats in five games coming into this contest, and a draw with Everton, ultimately cost Sir Alex Ferguson's side in what became the most extraordinary finale to the league championship since Arsenal beat Liverpool at Anfield in 1989.}}
tangled
English
Verb
(head)tangle
English
(wikipedia tangle)Etymology 1
Origin uncertain; apparently a variant form of (tagle).Verb
(tangl)- Her hair was tangled from a day in the wind.
- Don't tangle with someone three times your size.
- He tangled with the law.
- Tangled in amorous nets.
- When my simple weakness strays, / Tangled in forbidden ways.
Synonyms
* (to become mixed together or intertwined) dishevel, tousle * (to be forced into some kind of situation) drag, drag in, embroil, sweep, sweep up * argue, conflict, dispute, fight * (to mix together or intertwine) entangle, knot, mat, snarl * (to catch and hold) entrapAntonyms
* (to mix together or intertwine) untangle, unsnarlNoun
(en noun)Boundary problems, passage=Economics is a messy discipline: too fluid to be a science, too rigorous to be an art. Perhaps it is fitting that economists’ most-used metric, gross domestic product (GDP), is a tangle too. GDP measures the total value of output in an economic territory. Its apparent simplicity explains why it is scrutinised down to tenths of a percentage point every month.}}
Synonyms
* (tangled twisted mass) knot, mess, snarl * (complicated or confused state or condition) maze, snarl * argument, conflict, dispute, fightEtymology 2
Of Scandinavian origin; compare Norwegian tongul, Faroese tongul, Icelandic .Noun
(en noun)- Than if with thee the roaring wells / Should gulf him fathom-deep in brine; / And hands so often clasped in mine, / Should toss with tangle and with shells.
