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Tangle vs Bundle - What's the difference?

tangle | bundle |

As verbs the difference between tangle and bundle

is that tangle is to become mixed together or intertwined while bundle is .

As a noun tangle

is a tangled twisted mass or tangle can be any large type of seaweed, especially a species of laminaria .

tangle

English

(wikipedia tangle)

Etymology 1

Origin uncertain; apparently a variant form of (tagle).

Verb

(tangl)
  • to become mixed together or intertwined
    • Her hair was tangled from a day in the wind.
  • to be forced into some kind of situation
  • to enter into an argument, conflict, dispute, or fight
    • Don't tangle with someone three times your size.
    He tangled with the law.
  • to mix together or intertwine
  • to catch and hold
  • * Milton
    • Tangled in amorous nets.
  • * Crashaw
    • 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) entrap
    Antonyms
    * (to mix together or intertwine) untangle, unsnarl

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A tangled twisted mass.
  • A complicated or confused state or condition.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-03, volume=408, issue=8847, magazine=(The Economist)
    • , title= 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.}}
  • 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.
    • Synonyms
    * (tangled twisted mass) knot, mess, snarl * (complicated or confused state or condition) maze, snarl * argument, conflict, dispute, fight

    Etymology 2

    Of Scandinavian origin; compare Norwegian tongul, Faroese tongul, Icelandic .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Any large type of seaweed, especially a species of Laminaria .
  • * 1849 , , In Memoriam , 10:
    • 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.
  • (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.

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    Anagrams

    * English ergative verbs

    bundle

    English

    (wikipedia bundle)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A group of objects held together by wrapping or tying.
    • a bundle''' of straw or of paper; a '''bundle of old clothes
  • * Goldsmith
    • The fable of the rods, which, when united in a bundle , no strength could bend.
  • A package wrapped or tied up for carrying.
  • (biology) A cluster of closely bound muscle or nerve fibres.
  • (informal) A large amount, especially of money.
    • The inventor of that gizmo must have made a bundle .
  • (computing, Mac OS X) A directory containing related resources such as source code; application bundle.
  • A quantity of paper equal to 2 reams (1000 sheets).

    • Derived terms

    * bundle buggy * bundle of energy * bundle of His * bundle of joy * bundle of laughs * bundle of nerves

    Descendants

    *

    Coordinate terms

    * (quantity of paper) bale, quire, ream

    See also

    *

    Verb

  • To tie or wrap together.
  • To hustle; to dispatch something or someone quickly.
  • * T. Hook
    • They unmercifully bundled me and my gallant second into our own hackney coach.
  • To prepare for departure; to set off in a hurry or without ceremony.
  • To dress someone warmly.
  • To dress warmly. Usually bundle up
  • (computing) To sell hardware and software as a single product.
  • To hurry.
  • (slang) To dogpile
  • To hastily or clumsily push, put, carry or otherwise send something into a particular place.
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2010 , date=December 29 , author=Chris Whyatt , title=Chelsea 1 - 0 Bolton , work=BBC citation , page= , passage=At the other end, Essien thought he had bundled the ball over the line in between Bolton's final two substitutions but the flag had already gone up.}}
  • * 1851 ,
    • Yes, there is death in this business of whaling—a speechlessly quick chaotic bundling of a man into Eternity.
  • * 1859 , Terence, Comedies of Terence
    • Why, I didn't know that she meant that, until the Captain gave me an explanation, because I was dull of comprehension ; for he bundled me out of the house.
  • (dated) To sleep on the same bed without undressing.
  • * Washington Irving
    • Van Corlear stopped occasionally in the villages to eat pumpkin pies, dance at country frolics, and bundle with the Yankee lasses.

    Derived terms

    * bundle off * bundler * unbundle