Tangle vs Clog - What's the difference?
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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 .
* 1849 , , In Memoriam , 10:
(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.
A type of shoe with an inflexible, often wooden sole sometimes with an open heel.
A blockage.
(UK, colloquial) A shoe of any type.
* 1987 , :
A weight, such as a log or block of wood, attached to a person or animal to hinder motion.
* Hudibras
* Tennyson
That which hinders or impedes motion; an encumbrance, restraint, or impediment of any kind.
* Burke
To block or slow passage through (often with 'up' ).
To encumber or load, especially with something that impedes motion; to hamper.
* Dryden
To burden; to trammel; to embarrass; to perplex.
* Addison
* Shakespeare
Tangle is a related term of clog.
As verbs the difference between tangle and clog
is that tangle is to become mixed together or intertwined while clog is to block or slow passage through (often with 'up' ).As nouns the difference between tangle and clog
is that tangle is a tangled twisted mass or tangle can be any large type of seaweed, especially a species of laminaria while clog is a type of shoe with an inflexible, often wooden sole sometimes with an open heel.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.
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English
Noun
(en noun) (wikipedia clog)- Dutch people rarely wear clog s these days.
- The plumber cleared the clog from the drain.
- Withnail: I let him in this morning. He lost one of his clog s.
- As a dog by chance breaks loose, / And quits his clog .
- A clog of lead was round my feet.
- All the ancient, honest, juridical principles and institutions of England are so many clogs to check and retard the headlong course of violence and oppression.
Derived terms
* clogs to clogs in three generations * pop one's clogsVerb
- Hair is clogging the drainpipe.
- The roads are clogged up with traffic.
- The wings of winds were clogged with ice and snow.
- The commodities are clogged with impositions.
- You'll rue the time / That clogs me with this answer.