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Entwined vs Entangled - What's the difference?

entwined | entangled |

As verbs the difference between entwined and entangled

is that entwined is past tense of entwine while entangled is past tense of entangle.

As an adjective entangled is

tangled or twisted together.

entwined

English

Verb

(head)
  • (entwine)

    • entwine

    English

    Alternative forms

    * (l)

    Verb

    (entwin)
  • To twist or twine around something (or one another).
  • * Shelley
    • entwined in duskier wreaths her braided locks
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-14, author= Sam Leith
    • , volume=189, issue=1, page=37, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Where the profound meets the profane , passage=Swearing doesn't just mean what we now understand by "dirty words". It is entwined , in social and linguistic history, with the other sort of swearing: vows and oaths.}}

    Usage notes

    Particularly used in attributive form entwined. Often used interchangeably with intertwine, with minor usage distinctions. In symmetric sense of two things twining around each other, such as the branches of two trees, narrower (term) may be preferred, but these are not strictly distinguished. In asymmetric sense of one thing twined in or around another – rather than mutually – such as a vine twined around a tree (but tree not twined around the vine), entwined is preferred.

    Synonyms

    * (twine around one another) (l)

    entangled

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (entangle)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • tangled or twisted together
  • confused or complicated
  • (physics) (of two quantum states'') correlated, even though physically separated; (''referring to a state of a composite system ) not separable

    • See also

    * quantum entanglement