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Rangle vs Mangle - What's the difference?

rangle | mangle |

As verbs the difference between rangle and mangle

is that rangle is to range about in an irregular manner while mangle is to change, mutilate or disfigure by cutting, tearing, rearranging etc.

As a noun mangle is

a hand-operated device with rollers, for wringing laundry.

rangle

English

Verb

(rangl)
  • (obsolete, dialect, UK) To range about in an irregular manner.
    • (Halliwell)
    (Webster 1913)

    mangle

    English

    (wikipedia mangle)

    Verb

    (mangl)
  • To change, mutilate or disfigure by cutting, tearing, rearranging etc.
  • * Milton
    • mangled with ghastly wounds through plate and mail
  • * Jonathan Swift
    • when they are disposed to mangle a play or novel
  • (archaic) To wring laundry.
  • (computing) To modify (an identifier from source code) so as to produce a unique identifier for internal use by the compiler, etc.

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • A hand-operated device with rollers, for wringing laundry.
  • The mangle attached to wringer washing machines, often called the wringer.

    • Derived terms

    * put through the mangle

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